They are set up against you and me, and all the other plain men and women who maun make a living and tak' care of those that are near and dear to them.
Some of us plain folk have more than others of us, maybe, but there'll be no envy among us for a' that.

We maun stand together, and we shall.
I'm as sure of that as I'm sure that God has charged himself with the care of this world and all who dwell in it.
I maun talk more about myself than I richt like to do if I'm to make you see how I'm feeling and thinking aboot all the things that are loose wi' the world to-day.

For, after all, it's himself a man knows better than anyone else, and if I've ideas about life and the world it's from the way life's dealt with me that I've learned them.

I've no done so badly for myself and my ain, if I do say it.

And that's why, maybe, I've small patience with them that's busy always saying the plain man has no chance these days.
Do you ken how I made my start?
Are ye thinkin', maybe, that I'd a faither to send me to college and gie me masters to teach me to sing my songs, and to play the piano?
Man, ye'd be wrong, an' ye thought so! My faither deed, puir man, when I was but a bairn of eleven--he was but thirty-twa himself.