I utterly deny the genuineness of any profit which is gathered together without regard to the serviceability of the thing done....

Men have got to learn that in a certain sense, _when they manage great corporations, they have assumed public office_, and are responsible to the community for the things they do.

_That is the form of privilege that we are fighting."_ (Italics mine.)[33] A second glance at these passages will show that Mr.Wilson speaks in the name rather of struggling small capitalists, business men "on the make," than of the nation as a whole.

His diplomacy is largely aimed to move the "honest" large capitalists.

These are assured that the only form of privilege that Mr.Wilson, representing the smaller business men, those "on the make," is attacking, is their freedom from political and government control.