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, and of Congress. It maintains luxurious lobbies at every state capital, and at the national capital; and in all the cities and towns of the land it employs an immense army of pettifoggers and small politicians whose business is to attend primaries, pack conventions, get on juries, bribe judges, and in every way to work for its interests.

"Gentlemen, I have merely sketched the power of one of the seven groups that constitute the brain of the Plutocracy. Your twenty-four billions of wealth does