Still they are crying that the country is in destitution circumstances. 
That is inconsis—­inconsis—­you can’t deny it.

Our country has got a superabum, a superabum—­a superabum—­we’ve got a lot of money.

There’s money lying in the treasury that never was touched.  And the first fellow that will touch it will get six months.

The whole trouble is the trusts.

Look what the cold storage trust have done with the eggs.  Sixty cents a dozen—­for the good ones.  And the good ones are rotten.

Then they say the reason prices are going up is because wages are getting higher.

But why should they raise the price of eggs?

The chickens ain’t getting any more wages.

And if meat goes up any higher, it will be worth more than money.

Then there won’t be any money.

Instead of carrying money in your pocket, you’ll carry meat around.

A sirloin steak will be worth a thousand dollar bill.

When you go down to the bank to make a deposit, instead of giving the cashier a thousand dollar bill, you’ll slip him a sirloin steak.

If you ask him for change, he’ll give you a hunk of bologny.

If they keep on, we won’t be able to live at all.

Statistics prove that the average wages of the workingman is one dollar a day.

Out of that, he’s got to spend fifty cents a day for food; fifty-five cents for rent; ten cents for car fare.

And at the end of a hard day’s work—­he owes himself fifteen cents.

Yet the rich people say that the poor people are getting prosperous.

They say, look at our streets.  You see nothing but automobiles. 
You don’t see half the poor people now that you used to.

Certainly you don’t.

Half of them have already been run over and the other half is afraid to come out.

Why, between the automobiles and the trusts the poor man hasn’t got a chance to live.

And if only the gas trust gets a little stronger, the price of gas will go up so high a poor man won’t even be able to commit suicide.

They’ll have him both ways.  He can’t live and he can’t die.

And that’s why I am with the socialists.

They say, “Down with the trusts!  Do away with money.  Make everything equal.”

Imagine a fellow going into a jewelry store and saying: 

“Give me a diamond ring, here’s a lemon.”

But the socialists have got some good ideas for the working people.  And my heart and soul is with the labor class of people.  I am for labor unions.

But what help are the labor unions to the working man?

Look at it in the right light.

A man pays twenty-five dollars to join a union.  He gets a job in a shop for two dollars a day, works two weeks, the union gets out on a strike and he owes himself a dollar.