Place all other kinds of traffic upon the same proposed basis, and do you not see that the system which makes merchant-princes would be abolished?
Victoria C. Woodhull: “Place all other kinds of traffic upon the same proposed basis, and do you not see that the system which makes…”
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Woodhull proposes a systemic change to eliminate the concentration of wealth among merchant-princes.
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