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Well may the political parties view with alarm the beginning of organization among the classes they have until now relied upon to carry themselves into power.
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Victoria C. Woodhull
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Woodhull warns political parties about the potential consequences of labor organization.
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If he will not labor, society should compel him.
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.
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.
In all seasons of financial distress, gold, as a standard, has failed.