The relations of labor and capital are most intimately connected with the frame-work of all governments, because they could not exist without their active support.
Victoria C. Woodhull
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Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin, was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for president of the United States in the 1872 election. While many historians and authors agree that Woodhull was the first woman to run for the presidency, some disagree with classifying it as a true candidacy because according to the Constitution she would have been too young to be president if elected.
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There can be no perfect practice of the true principles which should govern their relations until the practices of the peoples are based on the recognition of the fact of the common brotherhood of humanity.
Then, if it fill its mission well, it will prove itself to be what the present demands, to crush corruption which is so rapidly permeating our whole body politic.
Let it unite to itself the principle of equal rights, regardless of sex, and it will succeed.
The almost criminal indifference with which the masses of the people regard these examples of the power of money over the consciences of those to whom they have intrusted their most sacred political rights, speaks badly for the safety of…
In its growth they see the process of national disintegration begun, which they well know cannot continue indefinitely without bringing destruction to our country.
It is this species of corruption that is becoming a stench in the nostrils of all those whose patriotism is more than pocket deep.
It is not necessary for us to say that all such fortunes are the results of bribery and corruption, and their possessors public thieves, and utterly unworthy of the confidence of honest devotees to a popular form of government.
Principle could not, in any event, be less the ruling power than now; nor could money buy more politicians than it does now.
The Labor Party now desires to be elevated into political place and power; but have its advocates any well-defined ideas regarding the results which are to follow such a change in the administration of government?
So it will be with society, when science shall have so enlightened the people that they shall know just what they are preparing to pass to.
This is the danger which it is to be feared would follow the elevation of labor into the position now occupied by wealth.