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Rhetorical Analysis of Orren Boyle’s Conversation to Jim Taggart
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//ABISOURCE//DTD XHTML plus AWML 2.2//EN" "http://www.abisource.com/2004/xhtml-awml/xhtml-awml.mod"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:awml="http://www.abisource.com/2004/xhtml-awml/"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=UTF-8" /> <title> Abiword HTML Document </title> </head> <body> <div> <p style="text-align:center"> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:24pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">Rhetorical Analysis of Orren Boyle’s Conversation to Jim Taggart</span> </p> <p> </p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#c00000">READ THIS -></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#c00000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">Instructions:</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"> Read the passage below. Identify the argument Orren Boyle is making. Write a rhetorical analysis that includes the following:</span> </p> <span></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">A defensible thesis with at least 2 rhetorical choices used by Orren.</span><span></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">At least 2 TEEL body paragraphs analyzing his choices in more detail.</span><span></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">Make specific references to paragraphs of this passage.</span><span></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">A conclusion that summarizes your analysis and states whether Orren’s speech was effective against Jim or not (use evidence from the passage).</span> <p> </p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">1 "Conditions and circumstances, Jim," said Orren Boyle. "Conditions and</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">circumstances absolutely beyond human control. We had everything</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">mapped to roll those rails, but unforeseen developments set in which</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">nobody could have prevented. If you'd only given us a chance, Jim."</span> </p> <p> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">2 "Disunity," drawled James Taggart, "seems to be the basic cause of all</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">social problems. My sister has a certain influence with a certain element</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">among our stockholders. Their disruptive tactics cannot always be</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">defeated."</span> </p> <p> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">3 "You said it, Jim. Disunity, that's the trouble. It's my absolute opinion that in</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">our complex industrial society, no business enterprise can succeed without</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">sharing the burden of the problems of other enterprises."</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">4 Taggart took a sip of his drink and put it down again. "I wish they'd fire that</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">bartender," he said.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">5 "For instance, consider Associated Steel. We've got the most modern plant</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">in the country and the best organization. That seems to me to be an</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">indisputable fact, because we got the Industrial Efficiency Award of Globe</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">Magazine last year. So we can maintain that we've done our best and</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">nobody can blame us. But we cannot help it if the iron ore situation is a</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">national problem. We could not get the ore, Jim."</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">6 Taggart said nothing. He sat with his elbows spread wide on the table top.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">The table was uncomfortably small, and this made it more uncomfortable</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">for his three companions, but they did not seem to question his privilege.</span> </p> <p> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">7 "Nobody can get ore any longer," said Boyle. "Natural exhaustion of the</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">mines, you know, and the wearing out of equipment, and shortages of</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">materials, and difficulties of transportation, and other unavoidable</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">conditions."</span> </p> <p> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">8 "The ore industry is crumbling. That's what's killing the mining equipment</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">business," said Paul Larkin.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">9 "It's been proved that every business depends upon every other business,"</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">said Orren Boyle. "So everybody ought to share the burdens of everybody</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">else."</span> </p> <p> </p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">10 “That is, I think, true,” said Wesley Mouch. But nobody ever paid any</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">attention to Wesley Mouch.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">11 "My purpose," said Orren Boyle, "is the preservation of a free economy. It's</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">generally conceded that free economy is now on trial. Unless it proves its</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">social value and assumes its social responsibilities, the people won't stand</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">for it. If it doesn't develop a public spirit, it's done for, make no mistake</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">about that."</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">12 Orren Boyle had appeared from nowhere, five years ago, and had since</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">made the cover of every national news magazine. He had started out with a</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">hundred thousand dollars of his own and a two-hundred million-dollar loan</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">from the government. Now he headed an enormous concern which had</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">swallowed many smaller companies. This proved, he liked to say, that</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">individual ability still had a chance to succeed in the world.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">13 "The only justification of private property," said Orren Boyle, "is public</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">service."</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">14 "That is, I think, indubitable," said Wesley Mouch.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">15 Orren Boyle made a noise, swallowing his liquor. He was a large man with</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">big, virile gestures; everything about his person was loudly full of life,</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">except the small black slits of his eyes.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">16 "Jim," he said, "Rearden Metal seems to be a colossal kind of swindle."</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">17 "Uh-huh," said Taggart.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">18 "I hear there's not a single expert who's given a favorable report on it."</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">19 "No, not one."</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">20 "We've been improving steel rails for generations, and increasing their</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">weight. Now, is it true that these Rearden Metal rails are to be lighter than</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">the cheapest grade of steel?"</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">21 "That's right," said Taggart. "Lighter."</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">22 "But it's ridiculous, Jim. It's physically impossible. For your heavy-duty,</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">high-speed, main-line track?"</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">23 "That's right."</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">24 "But you're just inviting disaster."</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">25 "My sister is."</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">26 Taggart made the stem of his glass whirl slowly between two fingers.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">There was a moment of silence.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">27 "The National Council of Metal Industries," said Orren Boyle, "passed a</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">resolution to appoint a committee to study the question of Rearden Metal,</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">inasmuch as its use may be an actual public hazard."</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">28 "That is, in my opinion, wise," said Wesley Mouch.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">29 "When everybody agrees," Taggart's voice suddenly went shrill, "when</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">people are unanimous, how does one man dare to dissent? By what right?</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">That's what I want to know—by what right?"</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">30 Boyle's eyes darted to Taggart's face, but the dim light of the room made it</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">impossible to see faces clearly: he saw only a pale, bluish smear.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">31 "When we think of the natural resources, at a time of critical shortage,"</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">Boyle said softly, "when we think of the crucial raw materials that are being</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">wasted on an irresponsible private experiment, when we think of the ore . .</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">."</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">32 He did not finish. He glanced at Taggart again. But Taggart seemed to know</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">that Boyle was waiting and to find the silence enjoyable.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">33 "The public has a vital stake in natural resources, Jim, such as iron ore. The</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">public can't remain indifferent to reckless, selfish waste by an anti-social</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">individual. After all, private property is a trusteeship held for the benefit of</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">society as a whole."</span> </p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">34 Taggart glanced at Boyle and smiled; the smile was pointed, it seemed to</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">say that something in his words was an answer to something in the words of</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">Boyle.</span> </p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">35 "The liquor they serve here is swill. I suppose that's the price we</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">have to pay for not being crowded by all kinds of rabble. But I do wish</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">they'd recognize that they're dealing with experts.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">Since I hold the purse strings, I expect to get my money's worth and at my</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">pleasure."</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">36 Boyle did not answer; his face had become sullen. "Listen, Jim . . ." he</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">began heavily.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">37 Taggart smiled. "What? I'm listening."</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">38 "Jim, you will agree, I'm sure, that there's nothing more destructive than a</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">monopoly."</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">39 "Yes," said Taggart, "on the one hand. On the other, there's the blight of</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">unbridled competition."</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">40 "That's true. That's very true. The proper course is always, in my opinion, in</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">the middle. So it is, I think, the duty of society to snip the extremes, now</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">isn't it?"</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">41 "Yes," said Taggart, "it is."</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">42 "Consider the picture in the iron-ore business. The national output seems to</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">be falling at an ungodly rate. It threatens the existence of the whole steel</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">industry. Steel mills are shutting down all over the country.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"> 43</span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">There's only one mining company that's lucky enough not to be affected by</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">the general conditions. Its output seems to be plentiful and always available</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">on schedule. But who gets the benefit of it? Nobody except its owner.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">Would you say that that's fair?"</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">44 "No," said Taggart, "it isn't fair."</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">45 "Most of us don't own iron mines. How can we compete with a man who's</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">got a corner on God's natural resources? Is it any wonder that he can always</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">deliver steel, while we have to struggle and wait and lose our customers and</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">go out of business? Is it in the public interest to let one man destroy an</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">entire industry?"</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">46 "No," said Taggart, "it isn't."</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">47 "It seems to me that the national policy ought to be aimed at the objective</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">of giving everybody a chance at his fair share of iron ore, with a view</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">toward the preservation of the industry as a whole. Don't you think so?"</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">48 "I think so."</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">49 Boyle sighed. Then he said cautiously, "But I guess there aren't many</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">people in Washington capable of understanding a progressive social policy."</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">50 Taggart said slowly, "There are. No, not many and not easy to approach, but</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">there are. I might speak to them."</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"></span></p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">51 Boyle picked up his drink and swallowed it in one gulp, as if he had heard</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000"></span><span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">all he had wanted to hear.</span> </p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</span> </p> <p> <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000">Begin writing here:</span> </p> <p> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Juxtaposition, Symbol</span> </p> <p> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Orren Boyle is an amazing figure, he led his audience through his speeches using his wise words to inspire them.</span> </p> </div> </body> </html> ">
