Victoria C. Woodhull: “The real merits of the question are of much greater significance than…”

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The real merits of the question are of much greater significance than is generally supposed, even by those who raise it.

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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull emphasizes the deeper significance of the labor-capital question beyond its surface appearance.

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Our Government is a nearer approach to a popular form, and more nearly allied to true freedom and justice than any other in existence.

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.

Can mouldering relics, or can fossiled creeds, Provide the quickening age her mighty needs?

Victoria C. Woodhull: “The real merits of the question are of much greater significance than is generally supposed, even by those who raise it.”