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.
Woodhull critiques the corrupting influence of wealth in politics, emphasizing the need for integrity in government.
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It is well enough to cry peace when war rages, but the crying will not bring it.
It is this species of corruption that is becoming a stench in the nostrils of all those whose patriotism is more than pocket deep.
That kind of money which has elasticity, that will be plenty when business is active, and that can be readily put to other use for profit when business is less demanding, is the kind the prosperity of a country demands.
And this is no more true of the pauper laborers of Europe and the slave laborers of Asia than it is of the free labor of America.