#112b - MORGAN THE MAGNIFICENT: History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. III (Part 2)
Subliminal Jihad
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The Civil War and Its Importance in the Industrial Revolution
Inventor morse was cheated out, thrown into the deepest poverty. He applied in teen 78 to the government for payment on the score of his invention. In favoring his petition, the committee on patents reported, he is ignored and poor in his declining years. Those who have adopted his inventions without remunerating him are rolling in wealth. Everywhere in the struggle for commercial success, obtruded fraud, theft and murder. The outbreak of the civil war gave the mercantile class unsurpassed opportunities for profiting from what amounted to organized murder.
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