If it is necessary for the interests of the people that he who steals a hundred dollars should be restrained of his liberty—and it is the sphere of government to do it—how much more would it be for its interests to transpose these leeches upon the vitality of society into producing members of it?
Woodhull makes a compelling argument for the necessity of government intervention in transforming societal leeches into productive members.
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