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so. No matter how poor you may be, if

you begin to do things in the Certain Way you will begin to get

rich; and you will begin to have capital. The getting of capital is

a part of the process of getting rich; and it is a part of the result

which invariably
follows the doing of things in the Certain

Way. You may be the poorest man on the continent, and be

deeply in debt; you may have neither friends, influence, nor

resources; but if you begin to do things in this way, you must

infallibly begin to get rich, f
or like causes must produce like

effects. If you have no capital, you can get capital; if you are in

the wrong business, you can get into the right business; if you

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are in the wrong location, you can go to the right location; and

you can do so
by beginning
in your present business and in your

present location
to do things in the Certain Way which causes

success.

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Is Opportunity Monopolized?




NO man is kept poor because opportunity has been taken away

from him; because other people have monopolized the weal
th,

and have put a fence around it. You may be shut off from

engaging in business in certain lines, but there are other

channels open to you. Probably it would be hard for you to get

control of any of the great railroad systems; that field is pretty

well m
onopolized. But the electric railway business is still in its

infancy, and offers plenty of scope for enterprise; and it will be

but a very few years until traffic and transportation through the

air will become a great industry, and in all its branches wil
l give

employment to hundreds of thousands, and perhaps to millions,

of people. Why not turn your attention to the development of

aerial transportation, instead of competing with J.J. Hill and

others for a chance in the steam railway world?




It is quite t
rue that if you are a workman in the employ of the

steel trust you have very little chance of becoming the owner of

the plant in which you work; but it is also true that if you will

commence to act in a Certain Way, you can soon leave the

employ of the ste
el trust; you can buy a farm of from ten to

forty acres, and engage in business as a producer of foodstuffs.

There is great opportunity at this time for men who will live

upon small tracts of land and cultivate the same intensively;

such men will certainly
get rich. You may say that it is

impossible for you to get the land, but I am going to prove to

you that it is not impossible, and that you can certainly get a

farm if you will go to work in a Certain Way.




At different periods the tide of opportunity se
ts in different

directions, according to the needs of the whole, and the

particular stage of social evolution which has been reached. At

present, in America, it is setting toward agriculture and the

allied industries and professions. To
-
day, opportunity is
open

before the factory worker in his line. It is open before the

business man who supplies the farmer more than before the one

who supplies the factory worker; and before the professional

man who waits upon the farmer more than before the one who

serves
the working class.

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There is abundance of opportunity for the man who will go with

the tide, instead of trying to swim against it.




So the factory workers, either as individuals or as a class, are

not deprived of opportunity. The workers are not being "k
ept

down" by their masters; they are not being "ground" by the

trusts and combinations of capital. As a class, they are where

they are because they do not do things in a Certain Way. If the

workers of America chose to do so, they could follow the

example o
f their brothers in Belgium and other countries, and

establish great department stores and co
-
operative industries;

they could elect men of their own class to office, and pass laws

favoring the development of such co
-
operative industries; and

in a few year
s they could take peaceable possession of the

industrial field.




The working class may become the master class whenever they

will begin to do things in a Certain Way; the law of wealth is

the same for them as it is for all others. This they must learn;

an
d they will remain where they are as long as they