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1910s >> 1913 >> no-110-october-1913

[Rich and Poor]

Socialists are poor men and women. The opponents of Socialism usually are the rich. Do you not think the men and women of your own class, who must be poor while you are poor, may be as well worth listening to as those who can be rich only so long as you are poor ?

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