It is a singular fact, and one to be regarded with a feeling bordering on astonishment, that it is possible for all legislation to be either conducted in the interests of capital or controlled by it, when the capitalists of the country are to the laborers as one is to ten.
Woodhull expresses astonishment at how legislation can favor capital despite the vast disparity between capitalists and laborers.
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