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Thus bank charters were granted by wholesale and they were often little better than permits to plunder the public.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “Thus bank charters were granted by wholesale and they were often little better than permits to plunder the public.”
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Beveridge criticizes the rampant issuance of bank charters that allowed exploitation of the public.
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