Eight Per Cent: The Only Remaining Legislative Swindle to the Injury of the Working Classes (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Laws, the riots which took place in all our large towns showed that some were not deluded by the false pretence that they were for the benefit of the people - so, at the passing of the Bank Act, Scotland rose almost to a man, and said, It is not for the benefit of the people - keep the swindle from us; and succeeded until Sir Robert Peel, shortly after, tempted the banks in Scotland to agree to a similar measure by bribing them with a monopoly.

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