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Page 14
That we condemn the fallacy of protecting American labor under the present system , which opens our ports to the pauper and criminal classes of the world and crowds out our wage - earners , and we denounce the present ineffective law ...
That we condemn the fallacy of protecting American labor under the present system , which opens our ports to the pauper and criminal classes of the world and crowds out our wage - earners , and we denounce the present ineffective law ...
Page 51
He has accepted the situation for the present , but what he intends to do about it hereafter , no man knows ; he , least of all men , knows . The American plutocrat has accepted the situation even more frankly than the proletarian .
He has accepted the situation for the present , but what he intends to do about it hereafter , no man knows ; he , least of all men , knows . The American plutocrat has accepted the situation even more frankly than the proletarian .
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Just at present the whole community is proletarianized , and is made to feel the poor man's concern as to where the next day's bread or the next day's cake is to come from ; if a man is used to having cake he will be as anxious to keep ...
Just at present the whole community is proletarianized , and is made to feel the poor man's concern as to where the next day's bread or the next day's cake is to come from ; if a man is used to having cake he will be as anxious to keep ...
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Populist Ideology | 7 |
A Cross of Gold | 23 |
Utopian Conceptions | 29 |
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