It is the most complete evidence of supineness on the part of the laboring classes that they are not now represented as they should be.
Victoria C. Woodhull: “It is the most complete evidence of supineness on the part of the laboring classes that they are not now represented as…”
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Woodhull criticizes the lack of representation for the laboring classes, highlighting their apathy as a significant issue.
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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.
That kind of money which has elasticity, that will be plenty when business is active, and that can be readily put to other use for profit when business is less demanding, is the kind the prosperity of a country demands.
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.
Now, what we require is a measure of values of just as fixed and absolute a character as any of these.