The result is, that all purchasers of vegetables in the city are forced to pay the additional cost merely to enable a few insignificant persons to pursue a calling which they would otherwise abandon for some other which they could pursue without protection.
Woodhull highlights the burden placed on consumers due to protective taxes benefiting a few individuals.
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I have deliberately and of my own accord placed myself before the people as a candidate for the Presidency of the United States, and having the means, courage, energy and strength necessary for the race, intend to contest it to the close.
The chief value, then, of an intimate knowledge of the past is, that from it the future may be foreseen, and that the lesson it teaches may assist in the formation of aids to the natural order of things.
The same laws that bring fruit to perfection and dissolution perfect and dissolve societies.
And this is no more true of the pauper laborers of Europe and the slave laborers of Asia than it is of the free labor of America.