DRAGNET • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Dragnet

... used to belong properly enough to men who used only their own capital and their individual energy in business. The processes of capital must be as open as the processes of politics. Those who make use of the great modern accumulations of wealth, gathered together by the dragnet process of the sale of stocks and bonds, and piling up of reserves, must be treated as under a public obligation; they must be made responsible for their business methods to the great communities which are in fact their working partners, so ...

— The New Freedom - A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People • Woodrow Wilson