In economic warfare, the fighting can never be fair for long, and it is the business of the state to see that its own friends are victorious.

It holds, if you please, itself a hand in the game.

The several players are playing, not merely with one another, but with the political and social bank.

The security and perpetuity of the state and of the individual in so far an he is a social animal, depend upon the victory of the national interest--as represented both in the assurance of the national profit and in the domination of the nation's friends.

It is in the position of the bank at Monte Carlo, which does not pretend to play fair, but which frankly promulgates rules advantageous to itself.