It is the hideous vampire fastened upon the vitals of our people, sucking—sucking—sucking their very life’s blood, leaving just enough to keep up their vitality, that they may manufacture more.
Woodhull uses a vivid metaphor to describe the exploitation of the working class by financial interests.
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