The millionaire and the professional politician want above all things to be let alone, and to be allowed to enjoy the benefit of their conquests.

But the labor organizations cannot exercise the power necessary in their opinion to their interests without certain radical changes in the political and economic order; and inasmuch as their power is likely to increase rather than diminish, the American people are confronted with the prospect of persistent, unscrupulous, and increasing agitation on behalf of an economic and political reorganization in favor of one class of citizens.
The large corporations and the unions occupy in certain respects a similar relation to the American political system.

Their advocates both believe in associated action for themselves and in competition for their adversaries.

They both demand governmental protection and recognition, but resent the notion of efficient governmental regulation.

They have both reached their existing power, partly because of the weakness of the state governments, to which they are legally subject, and they both are opposed to any interference by the Federal government--except exclusively on their own behalf.