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George Julian: “The system of agricultural serfdom called Land Monopoly, which is now putting on new forms of danger in the rapid…”

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The system of agricultural serfdom called Land Monopoly, which is now putting on new forms of danger in the rapid multiplication of great estates and the purchase of vast bodies of lands by foreign capitalists, must be resisted as a still more formidable foe of democratic Government.
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George Julian
Republican · Indiana

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Julian warns against the dangers of land monopoly and its threat to democracy.

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