Shaw compared the differences in dreams from the Salvation Army and the dreams that a person can carry out by his/her self. People are happy because they have a job and they would not have to worry about poverty. Undershaft is a creator of the jobs; he is the one who gives real hope to the people. His munitions factory was spotless and neat. It is run with perfect efficiency.
“Cleanliness and respectability do not need justification; they justify themselves. I see no darkness here, no dreadfulness. In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger (136).”
Indeed, for Undershaft, order and cleanliness are categorical imperatives of sorts and they justify themselves. Simply put, the institution of order and cleanliness easily means the elimination of the disorderly and unclean. All that includes a separate town built just for the worker. There they are supplied with everything they need. Undershaft never bosses people around. He merely points out that something needs to be done, and it is done. Shaw suggests that living in a life like this, humans could perform better and less crime and evil would happen in a society. Undershaft had mentioned that there are two things necessary to salvation, “money and gunpowder (87).”
For Undershaft, the world is not in God's power but in the power of the military industrialist. With money and gunpowder, one will truly reigns over Europe, and can determines the course of society. This re-organization of society—rather than one's faith in a religious doctrine—provides the means of salvation. For Undershaft, human beings’ virtue rests on our material security. Undershaft’s purchase reveals how all work of salvation is indeed contingent on those who hold the money and gunpowder.
Poverty could make people do a lot of horrible things. In the world of poverty people will steal and murder to get something they need to survive. In poverty, people will commit crime in order to be fed and clothed. Without money, families might not be able to hold together, children might not be able to go to school, and it could also be a cause of domestic violence. Undershaft believed that the worst of crimes is poverty (137).
“…there are millions of poor people, abject people, dirty people, ill fed, ill clothed people. They poison us morally and physically: they kill the happiness of society: they force us to do away with our own liberties and to organize unnatural cruelties for fear they should rise against us and drag us down into their abyss. Only fools fear crime: we all fear poverty (137).”
Here Undershaft declares that the worst crime among men is not murder, but the "crime of poverty." This crime is hardly victimless and it is committed against society itself. Moreover, the poor are the perpetrators, they kill society's happiness, forcing us to eliminate our liberties and organize unnatural cruelties to keep them in check.
Undershaft asserts that poverty is the greatest evil and crime. The world is not in God's power but in the power of the military industrialist. Poverty is the main source of sickness, crime, and incompetence. Having economic security is the principal pretense of society; it cannot exist when the danger of poverty hangs over everyone’s head. Therefore, money and gunpowder is what determines the course of society.