"[T]oday here in the United States of America, and in all
industrialized countries...there is a class of men and women, perhaps the
majority, that...is unfree.
"I mean, all those who subsist on a wage, the price paid for
the commodity they have and who have no other means of maintenance for
themselves and their families.
"I mean...all those who subsist on a wage that is
paid to them by those who are, in actuality, their masters; a wage that may be
withdrawn at any time and for any reason, leaving them on the dole, or to
starve, if they can find no new job...
"These are not free men in any rational and
exact sense of the word."
-Ralph Adams Cram, written in 1937
This definition of freedom is certainly worth considering in
our time.
Social Leader Daily by Oliver DeMille
