But this needed capital your lawmakers arbitrarily forbid them to have; and for no other reason than to reduce them to the condition of servants; and subject them to all such extortions as their employers--the holders of the privileged money--may choose to practise upon them.
Spooner accuses lawmakers of deliberately restricting access to capital to maintain a class of dependent workers.
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