Question refers to the excerpt below.
"There is no possible definition of 'a poor man.' A pauper is a person who cannot earn his living; whose producing powers have fallen positively below his necessary consumption; who cannot, therefore, pay his way. A human society needs the active co-operation and productive energy of every person in it. A man who is present as a consumer, yet who does not contribute either by land, labor, or capital to the work of society, is a burden. On no sound political theory ought such a person to share in the political power of the State. He drops out of the ranks of workers and producers. Society must support him. It accepts the burden, but he must be cancelled from the ranks of the rulers likewise. So much for the pauper. About him no more need be said. But he is not the 'poor man.' The 'poor man' is an elastic term, under which any number of social fallacies may be hidden."—William Graham Sumner, from What Social Classes Owe to Each Other, 1883
Business leaders in agreement with Sumner's text would also support
corporate practices like consolidation and unregulated monopolies
social programs that helped the lower classes and recent immigrants
development of agrarian movements to reduce corporate control
policies that supported further exploitation of natural resources