"Utilize it. Treat it as you would a problem in mathematics. You start with an axiom. Build on it. Capital is timid. Therefore, people who have money never do anything original; that is to say, venturesome; that is to say, courageous. All new enterprises are begun and carried through by people who have no money of their own to lose. I, single-handed, could defeat an army commanded by Alexander, Cæsar, Napoleon, and U. S. Grant, if I could put into the pockets of each of the enemy's private soldiers six dollars in cash. No man likes to be killed with money in his clothes. Money is fear! Fear is unreasoning. I am opposed to injecting fear into the situation. No, sir; instead, we must capitalize another human force. Have this printed. Big blank margin. All the papers."
He gave them what he had written:
TO THE PUBLIC
We are Union Men but we are for Peace.
We do not hate scabs: we pity them!
We do not pity Tightwads who make scabs possible.
We made Sandwiching an Art, also an Honorable Occupation.
We feed our hungry men out of our Hunger Fund. Those who work support those who can't, until they in turn find work.
We ask for living wages, but also for the respect of the public.
Our Emblem is the Sign of the Ultimate Sandwich.