Education of some sort, and even a pretty good sort, is possible to practically everyone in our land.

Failure to get the best education available, whether it be in books or in business training, is sure to relegate one to the ranks of the second-class.
There is no excuse for incompetence in this age of opportunity; no excuse for being second-class when it is possible to be first-class, and when first-class is in demand everywhere.
Second-class things are wanted only when first-class can't be had.

You wear first-class clothes if you can pay for them, eat first-class butter, first-class meat, and first-class bread, or, if you don't, you wish you could.

Second-class men are no more wanted than any other second-class commodity.

They are taken and used when the better article is scarce or is too high-priced for the occasion.