Nothing but strife, contention and wars would follow a government founded on such principles of individuality as do not and will not recognize the superiority of the community as compared to the individual members of it.
Woodhull critiques the idea of a government based solely on individual rights, predicting it would lead to conflict.
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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.
Now, what we require is a measure of values of just as fixed and absolute a character as any of these.
Gold is relatively valuable for the general uses it can be made to subserve; so, too, and only so, are all other products.
It is well enough to cry peace when war rages, but the crying will not bring it.