Such representatives should be religiously ostracized by the common people, and none tolerated but such as understand the relations which the interests they wish fostered bear to those they feel they are becoming subjected to, and who will…
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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These defects it should be the duty of those who prate with so much volubility to discover and proclaim, to the end that they may be understood by the people.
Strife may continue, war, even, may come of the strife, but finally the settlement must be made upon the principles of justice, which underlie their relations.
The true interests of each are best promoted by rendering justice, full and complete, to the other, and in the understanding of this lies the only solution of the Labor Question.
On the contrary, there is an entire harmony of interests between them.
There is, as was said above, no conflict between Capital and Labor.
The remedy lies with the people, and they must make use of it before they can ever expect to see their rights adjusted.
The labor class have it in their power to send to Congress just those who shall fully represent their interests; but they do not do this; most of them are found actively supporting those whom Capital selects and holds up for their…
It is in the people themselves, and in the fundamental principles upon which society is built, and those which the people allow government to be administered upon.
It is quite true that there is a growing tendency to centralize capital, and that consolidation of monetary interests is the rule; but the fault of this does not lie in capital or capitalists—it is farther back than it or they.
It is generally true that a cause supported by such means has no principles upon which to base its claims; but in this instance the most absolute and just principles are ignored, while cant and bombast usurp their proper sphere.
This class of individuals are ever busy stirring the coals of dissatisfaction into flames of rebellion, thinking thereby to become the acknowledged representatives of the labor interest.