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The Iron Heel

CHAPTER VIII
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The chief obstacle to your Grange propaganda is the trusts.
Behind every obstacle you encounter, every blow that smites you, every defeat that you receive, is the hand of the trusts.

Is this not so?
Tell me." Mr.Calvin sat in uncomfortable silence.
"Go ahead," Ernest encouraged.
"It is true," Mr.Calvin confessed.

"We captured the state legislature of Oregon and put through splendid protective legislation, and it was vetoed by the governor, who was a creature of the trusts.

We elected a governor of Colorado, and the legislature refused to permit him to take office.

Twice we have passed a national income tax, and each time the supreme court smashed it as unconstitutional.


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