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The system of public plunder inaugurated by Jackson was in full blast, and an organized effort to reform it was the real need of the hour; but here was the weak point of the Whigs.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge Julian: “The system of public plunder inaugurated by Jackson was in full blast, and an organized effort to reform it was the real…”
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Julian highlights the urgent need for reform in the face of widespread corruption initiated by Jackson's administration.
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The withdrawal of the slavery question from the strife of parties has changed the face of our politics as completely as did its introduction.
The tyranny of industrial domination, which borrows its life from the alliance of concentrated capital with labor-saving machinery, must be overthrown.
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