"We will not endure a King".

• Author: La Follette, Robert M.
• Position: 1923 - Economic slavery - Brief article

June 1923

The human body is not bought and sold upon the auction block, but monopoly is absolute master of every product necessary to feed, clothe, warm, and shelter the human body. This is economic slavery.

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Senator John Sherman was the greatest statesman of his time. Thirty-three years ago, speaking in support of the Sherman Anti-Trust Bill, he said: "If we will not endure a King as a political power, we should not endure a King over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life."

Shall the Kingly power over...