a government of wall street, for wall street, by wall street /

Creator: Mary Elizabeth Lease,suffrage advocate, populist, and author,and orator Context: Long before the Occupy Wall Street movement the metonymic location of the stock market has been treated with hostility. In 1891 the political activist Mary Elizabeth Lease delivered a speech containing words reminiscent of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address which she transformed into a condemnation …Continue reading A Government of Wall Street, for Wall Street, and by Wall Street

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