Fortunately for us, the special interests, with a blindness which naturally follows from their wholly commercialized point of view, have failed to see the essential fact in this great conflict.

They do not understand that this is far more than an economic question, that in its essence and in every essential characteristic it is a moral question.
The present economic order, with its face turned away from equality of opportunity, involves a bitter moral wrong, which must be corrected for moral reasons and along moral lines.

It must be corrected with justness and firmness, but not bitterly, for that would be to lower the Nation to the moral level of the evil which we have set ourselves to fight.
This is the doctrine of the Square Deal.

It contains the germ of industrial liberty.

Its partisans are the many, its opponents are the few.