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Calvin Coolidge: Some of those who have posed as their leaders and argued that the wage-earners were patriotic because those leaders told…

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Some of those who have posed as their leaders and argued that the wage-earners were patriotic because those leaders told them to be may well now inquire whether the case did not stand the other way about.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

Coolidge critiques leaders who claim to represent wage-earners' patriotism without genuine support from them.

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