“the excessive wealth in the hands of the few” coexisting with the “extreme poverty, ignorance, vice, and wretchedness of the many, a maldistribution of property” sealed by the “influence of money…growing greater and greater…in Congress, in state legislatures, in city councils, in the courts, in the political conventions.” “This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer,” he wrote. “It is a government by the corporations, of the corporations, and for the corporations.”
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Jack Beatty,
Age of Betrayal
