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Excerpt from Sayings of a Sourdough
I have carefully read this bill and the report of the committee. The report, so far as I can see, fails to give a single reason why this bill should meet with the approval of the members of this House. The most cursory examination of the provisions of this bill will demonstrate to the most thoughtless man in the House that the bill is radically wrong and inherently bad. It is essentially a piece of legal favoritism. It takes from the many for the benefit of the few. It is monopoly pure and simple, and in its meanest form. It is class legislation of the worst type. Its sweeping provisions constitute a mighty stride in the wrong direction. It fashions a mighty trust, and places it on a pedestal beyond the law. I am against this kind of legislation, and I will always do all in my power to defeat it. All legislation of this special and exclusive character is absolutely wrong. The sad dest comment on our legislative history is the just criticism that there has been too much special legislation for the past thirty years. I view this kind of special legislation with alarm, and sound a note of warning against it. We all know what it has done, what it is doing, and what it will continue to do. The history of the past teaches, if it teaches anything, that it quickly becomes an instrument for the robbing of the people for the bene fit of the trusts - a legalized tyranny to oppress the people for the advantage of greedy corporate interests. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.