“[There] is looming up a new and dark power … the enterprises of the country are aggregating vast corporate combinations of unexampled capital, boldly marching, not for economical conquests only, but for political power. … The question will arise and arise in your day, though perhaps not fully in mine, which shall rule—wealth or man; which shall lead—money or intellect; who shall fill public stations—educated and patriotic freemen, or the feudal serfs of corporate capital?”*
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* Judge Edward G. Ryan, Wisconsin Supreme Court Judge, 1873: as quoted in
Unequal Protection by Thom Hartman, p. 94. © 2010. (Bold emphasis added.)
Edward George Ryan (November 13, 1810 – October 19, 1880) was an Irish American immigrant, lawyer, and judge, and was the 5th Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_George_Ryan
