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The Iron Heel

CHAPTER VIII
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But it would seem that it was aimed against you, too.

Congressman Wiley, in the brief discussion that was permitted, said that the bill 'provided for a reserve force to take the mob by the throat'-- you're the mob, gentlemen--'and protect at all hazards life, liberty, and property.' And in the time to come, when you rise in your strength, remember that you will be rising against the property of the trusts, and the liberty of the trusts, according to the law, to squeeze you.

Your teeth are pulled, gentlemen.

Your claws are trimmed.

In the day you rise in your strength, toothless and clawless, you will be as harmless as any army of clams." "I don't believe it!" Kowalt cried.


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