BISHOP. It is.
PRESCOTT. You have been reading sensational papers. Of course a depression gives the radicals a chance to spread their doctrines. But there isn't any cause for worry. Prosperity is always a sure cure for radicalism. And things are picking up.
BISHOP. You are probably under the common delusion that all radicals are wild-eyed foreigners.
PRESCOTT. [Bitter in his thoughts.] If it wasn't for this foolery at Washington ...
BISHOP. So was I. But I find they are not.
PRESCOTT. We should all have been out of the slump long ago.
BISHOP. Many of them--the young ones--are good American stock.
PRESCOTT. The Administration proclaims its adherence to the profit system....
BISHOP. They have education, in some cases, background, but unfortunately no experience.
PRESCOTT.... and at the same time it insists on unfair competition with private enterprise.