Franklin D. Roosevelt, in the 1936, defended "the average man" against a band of "economic royalists."

That man, my dear sirs, is a malefactor of great wealth, an economic royalist.

Ex-liberals will continue to waggle a vestigial digit at F.D.R.'s "economic royalists," but they know that not even confiscation of the incomes of millionaires will put a dent in the deficit.

For immigrant textile workers, America meant resistance to "economic royalists" seeking, like King George, to keep all power in the hands of a few.

Our Democratic tradition calls upon us to condemn concentrations of power, "malefactors of great wealth" and "economic royalists" of the 1980's.

In 1936 Roosevelt built his campaign on crusading against the American Liberty League as a band of economic royalists.

By identifying Democrats with the common man and Republicans with the "economic royalists," Roosevelt and his successors controlled Congress for 44 of the next 48 years and won eight of 12 presidential elections.

Franklin D. Roosevelt inveighed against the "economic royalists" and blamed "the ruthless manipulation of professional gamblers in the stock markets and in the corporate system."

Steve Forbes, of course, is a leading economic royalist, taxophobe, and conservative Republican.

He takes this sanctimonious appeal to class warfare from F.D.R.'s blast at "economic royalists."