THE AMERICAN NOBILITY 23 
are criminally indifferent to the rights of every- 
body outside their own group. They rob the 
people. by authority of ay. Publeolicials 
subservient to the trusts have made the laws 
to suit the trusts. The people have tried to get 
political action to release them from their bond- 
age, but whichever party they have voted into 
power, its officials have betrayed the people. 
Exceptions have been few; never enough at any 
one time to be effective in giving relief from 
the existing and oppressive laws. 
Because of the selfish, wholesale control of 
the world’s different agencies for serving the 
necessities of ordinary mankind, and the failure 
of public officials to do their duty, many have 
become discouraged and given up all hope of 
relief from what is becoming intolerable. 
£ The industrial and business confusion, and 
the political fiascoes have made numerous inter- 
ests even more indifferent to the rights of 
mankind and created contempt for the law. 
Already the natir= shocked by what may be 
termed an _epidemi~ of crime, constantly on the 
increase. Many in high places, instead of seek- 
ing to remedy the cause, are seeking to deal 
out greater punishment to the wrongdoers, most