Government now has the power to take these conditions in hand, and none are more interested in having it do so than the so-called labor party.
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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People lose sight of this fact, and in all legislation it is ignored.
Such conditions cannot exist in the midst of a community without exerting their deleterious influences over the higher and better conditions.
All these can be cast out of society; and it is to be sincerely hoped for, that there will be formed a political party having its basis in the necessity and the possibility of such a disposal.
Such organization as will dispose of misery, poverty, ignorance and crime.
In this consideration of the uses of life, there is no more important feature of it than that of organization in all departments.
In a true condition of society there would be no such thing as wealth, in its present signification.
It is not conducive, under present conditions, to the best and most rapid development of the true wealth of the soul, nor can it ever be until correct views of the uses of wealth more generally obtain than they do at present.
It is beginning to be realized that there is a great deal more to live for in this life than mere bodily satisfaction and accumulation of wealth—of money.
It will only be considered as a means to other and higher ends.
Those who have followed these articles will begin to see that the attainment of great wealth will not constitute one of the principal aims of the society of the future.
When once it is generally received as one of the demonstrated sciences, there will be various attempts in all directions to organize upon its not yet demonstrated principles.