How, then, did these inequalities come about?
How did the Democratic political system of Jefferson and Jackson issue in undemocratic inequalities?
The answer is obviously (and it is an answer drawn by other reformers) that these inequalities are the work of wicked and unscrupulous men.

Financial or political pirates of one kind or another have been preying on the guileless public, and by means of their aggressions have perversely violated the supreme law of equal rights.

These men must be exposed; they must be denounced as enemies of the people; they must be held up to public execration and scorn; they must become the objects of a righteous popular vengeance.
Such are the feelings and ideas which possess the followers of Hearst, and on the basis of which Hearst himself acts and talks.

An apparent justification is reached for a systematic vilification of the trusts, the "predatory" millionaires and their supporters; and such vilification has become Hearst's peculiar stock in trade.

In effect he treats his opponents very much as the French revolutionary leaders treated their opponents, so that in case the conflict should become still more embittered, his "reformed" democracy may resemble the purified republic of which Robespierre and St.Just dreamed when they sent Desmoulins and Danton to the guillotine.