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"text": "It was an act to bullionize the debt of the United States and to give a value of five hundred millions to the unfortunate creditors, those poor fllows that lay like Lazarus at the gates of the rich man to pick up the crumbs that fell from the Government table: an act to raise the securiities from eighty cents in the dollar to $1.20 in the dollar!",
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"text": "This is by no means an implication that the successful are tyrannical oppressors, and the mediocre deluded serfs, for there are probably more men in the present House of Lords who need no patent of nobility to make good their claim to leadership than in our bullionized Senate.",
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"ref": "1910, Up-to-the-times Magazine - Volume 5, page 3383",
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