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people in the South look so unfavorable. The capitalist and employer made too much; the laborer received to little. It was plunder, not hard times, which made the poor man complain.
Mr. Stephens concluded by stating that he sympathized keenly with the grievances of the people, but hoped the riots of 1877 would never be repeated as a means of enforcing the rights of workingmen. "I believe in the eight-hour system of labor," he said, "but I fear the present splurge of the Communists is like an epidemic, and it may fail. A man generally has the small-pox only once."
"You are right," replied Mr. Parsons, "and then it either kills or cures."
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