My welcome to the State was made singularly cordial by the part I had played in Congress in opposing enormous schemes of land monopoly and plunder, which had been concocted by some of her own public servants in the interest of railway corporations and Indian rings.
Julian reflects on his positive reception in Kansas due to his anti-monopoly stance.
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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.
The system of spoils and plunder must also be destroyed, in order that freedom itself may be rescued from the perilous activities quickened into life by its own spirit, and the conduct of public affairs inspired by the great moralities…
The legalized robbery now carried on in the name of Protection to American labor must be overthrown.
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