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hundred millions sterling; and that your 

 petitioner's alarm arises from this vast ac- 

 cumulation of capital, its tendency having 

 been at all times and in all nations to make 

 the rich man richer and the poor man 

 poorer thereby oppressing the working- 

 classes, and grinding our already debased 

 peasantry to the very extreme of misery, 

 inducing the increase of atrocious crime to 

 a most fearful extent. 



" That your petitioner would also shew 

 that these monster establishments render 

 anything like competition impossible, and 

 create a monopoly which, % under any cir- 

 cumstances and in any form, is, has 

 been, and ever will be, inimical to the 

 best interests of the community. 



" That your petitioner witnesses the in- 

 vestment of such capital, in a financial 

 point of view, by individuals in certain 

 trunk lines, as being beneficial, as well to 

 the country as to the shareholders, inas- 

 much as they (the latter) get good interest 



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