Wealth is in The Bone and Sinew

with the opportunity to use them, as the Vanderbilts and Rockfellers well know. But they dare to give themselves airs, and tell us that we cannot do without them: that we ought to be thankful to them for coming and smiling upon us. God help the pigmy brain that understands that gold is wealth! Money is not wealth unless it is backed by sinew, by the harvest, by the pasture land, by the green fields dotted with cattle, by good seasons, unless it is represented by the earth. It is a wonder to me that they do not claim to have created the earth, such is their effrontery and brazen impudence! They make nothing: it is only we who are slaves to them that make them something. Nature alone is kind to us. Although there may be some who look upon this gigantic organisation of capital as too powerful to fight and sometimes feel afraid to tackle it, there are others who see the elements of decay within itself. The capitalists themselves will overthrow it out of sheer greed, and are themselves preparing the way unconsciously for State ownership of large industries. Already the usurer is beginning to shake in his shoes. The usurer has obtained a great hold upon the resources of every country. I have advocated