This is a vast inequality in favor of capital and against labor, and still it is the laborer’s fault; and it lies just where we pointed, in the selection of proper candidates as representatives, State and national.
Woodhull argues that the responsibility for labor's plight lies in the political choices made by the laborers themselves.
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