Richard T. Ely (1854-1943)

Richard Theodore Ely was an American economist, author, and leader of the Progressive movement who called for more government intervention to reform what it saw as the injustices of capitalism, especially regarding factory conditions, compulsory education, child labor, and labor unions.

Quotes

We have among us a class of mammon worshippers, whose one test of conservatism or radicalism is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated wealth. Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is called conservatism, and whatever favors anything else, no matter what is called socialism.