Money is the medium of exchanging commodities, and when diverted from its legitimate use and is made an end, results will ever follow which must be detrimental to the general interests involved.
In this statement, Woodhull articulates that money should serve as a means of trade, and misusing it can harm public interests.
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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.
It is in the people themselves, and in the fundamental principles upon which society is built, and those which the people allow government to be administered upon.
What, then, should be the sphere of justice in maintaining equality in freedom?
At no time since the close of the Revolutionary War has there been a time more fitting and inviting for such a work.