The limits and sphere for such a government to exercise its power in, was found to properly extend to all matters in which the common interests of the public are concerned as against assumed individual interests, which would in reality be to the “greatest good of the greatest number.
Woodhull discusses the role of government in serving the common interests of the public.
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Gold is relatively valuable for the general uses it can be made to subserve; so, too, and only so, are all other products.
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.
It is this species of corruption that is becoming a stench in the nostrils of all those whose patriotism is more than pocket deep.
What, then, should be the sphere of justice in maintaining equality in freedom?