Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.

As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters.

The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is not less dangerous than the communism of oppressed poverty and toil which, exasperated by injustice and discontent, attacks with wide disorder the citadel of misrule.

Honor lies in honest toil.

After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.