The pauper laborers (if there are any such) of other countries have just as good a right to live by their labor, and have an equal chance in our own markets, and in all the markets of the world, as have the pauper laborers, or any other laborers, of our own country.
Spooner argues for the equal rights of laborers from all countries in the marketplace.
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The will, or the pretended will, of the majority, is the last lurking place of tyranny at the present day.
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