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well here that they soon forgot about being class-conscious. That idea didn't spread as an attitude in the United States.

When I came to as an adult in these affairs, which was about 1910, the idea of the class struggle was by no means common, or accepted, or even in people's mouths. I make certain exceptions. By the time that the needle trades were organizing, which was soon thereafter, I began to hear the word “the working class,” and “this or that class,” and “the capitalists did that to us,” but the “capitalist” was some other little immigrant. If you looked up the word “capitalist” in the dictionary, the little man with a shop and six machines was technically a capitalist, but it seemed funny to call him that.

Just about that time Harper's Weekly cartoonist and others began to caricature the rich man and call him a capitalist. He had been caricatured before, but not called a capitalist. They had spoken of the trusts, but not the capitalists. The great animosity of the community was against the trust and the small business men were opposed to this great trustification. The small business men were just as much capitalists as anybody else. They were capitalists, but they didn't want this centralization of all business and all industry into the hands of one or two great trusts. They wanted their chance to make their