We believe that the inauguration of such a money system would be the beginning of the “leveling down and the leveling up” of the capitalist and the laborer, and that such a thing as practical equality will be impossible under any less radical and comprehensive change from present systems.
Woodhull discusses the need for a radical change in economic systems to achieve equality between capitalists and laborers.
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With its destruction the lives of two great political parties passed away, and left the people with no distinct lines of demarkation.
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.
It is not sufficient to simply assert that this or that is thus or so.
Whatever may have been the arguments favorable for the continuance of the institution of slavery, the destruction of it has rendered them nugatory, and but few of those who once used them could now be found to favor its resurrection.