The More Times Change...

The following is from a Will Rogers speech to bankers in 1923. Let's see, in over 85 years it still has a powerful edge to it that we recognize.

I see where your convention was opened by a prayer, you had to send outside your ranks to get somebody that knew how to pray. You should have had one creditor there; he’d have shown you how to pray. I noticed in the prayer the clergyman announced to the Almighty that the bankers were here. Well, it wasn’t exactly an announcement. It was more in the nature of a warning. He didn’t tell the devil, as he figured he knew where you all were all the time anyhow.

--A HT to Russell at Street Prophets