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Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?
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Whitelaw Reid
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gutenberg.orgWhitelaw Reid: “Is that the feast to be set before the laboring men of this country?”
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Reid questions whether the proposed economic changes truly benefit the working class in America.
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