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Victoria C. Woodhull: What does it matter to them if the few articles you must purchase to render yourselves and families comfortable, cost…

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What does it matter to them if the few articles you must purchase to render yourselves and families comfortable, cost you ten, twenty or fifty per cent. more than the actual cost of their production, if corporations for which they are attorneys become still more corpulent upon this that is indirectly filched from you!
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Victoria C. Woodhull

Editor's note · Context

Woodhull criticizes the indifference of corporations and their attorneys towards the financial burdens placed on working families.

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