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. . "^° Law and its enforcement could not be better calculated to render the rich immune and to jail the helpless and dependent. The federal government admirably expressed this at- titude of leniency toward the capitalist class. It followed the policy of remitting tariff duties to the trading class for periods of ten, twelve and eighteen months. This gave wealthy traders and shippers the free use of government money. John Jacob Astor, a successful swindler and founder of the Astor fortune, had ...a loan of over $5, 000, - 000 from this source. Sometimes these traders would fail — one house failed owing the government $3, 000, 000 — but in no case were these capitalists imprisoned for debt, though they never paid a cent they owed.^'' This happened fre- quently during the first quarter of the nineteenth century. This review of the status of workingmen reveals at 28McMaster, "The Acquisition of the Political, Social and Industrial Rights of Man in America, " pp. 63-66. 29lbid, p. 50. soMyers, "History of the Great American Fortunes, " Vol.
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