#73 - PIRATES OF THE CONSTITUTION: History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. 1
Subliminal Jihad
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The New York Society for the Prevention of Pauperism
Thmerchants, the pillars of society, myers writes, the most infamous frauds were carried on. And so dominant were the traders standards that these frauds passed as legitimate business methods. The very men who profited by them were the mainstays of churches. Yet this was the class that sat in judgment upon the poverty of the people and the acts of poor criminals. In new york state, the law decreed it grand larsenly t larsin to steal the value of 25 dollars. If a propertyless person stole, he let the powerful man steal, and the government at once refused to see the criminal intent. Hundreds of specific instances could be given
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