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when they use the power of their wealth to bribe officials, 

 in order to secure a continuance of this monopoly, then it 

 is odious, and it becomes the right and duty of a free people 

 to rebel against this injustice, and, through the ballot-box, 

 hurl from office the sordid placemen who have fleeced the 

 people by their unscrupulous deeds. As instances of monop 

 olies of this sort, it is only necessary to mention the host 

 of reissued patents, and the protection on iron, salt, lumber, 

 etc.; notoriously unjust, and kept going simply by the power 

 of the wealth of those holding the monopolies, through our 

 members of Congress and other public men. 



Interior of Farm-house in the Olden Time. 



THE COMMUNISM OF PROTECTED INDUSTRIES- 



Greatest of all the evils of which the American people 



have to complain are the various conspiracies by which the 



people are continually fleeced. Conspicuous among these 



are the combinations against the public interests based upon 



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