Is it any wonder that our manufacturers are obliged to demand that the people pay an additional per cent. upon everything they eat, drink or wear, that they may be protected in their various productive enterprises, when such exactions are laid upon them by this more than absolute monarch?
Woodhull argues that manufacturers pass additional costs onto consumers due to oppressive financial demands.
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