"[Anti-monopoly] is a movement inspired by a set of fools and black-mailers. To be sure, there are some men in it whose motives are good, if their sense is not. When I want to buy up any politician, I always find the Anti-Monopolists the most purchasable. They don't come so high."
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Quoted in Clarence P. Dresser, "Vanderbilt in the West" New York Times (October 9, 1882).
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William Henry Vanderbilt
(8 May 1821 â 8 December 1885) was an American railroad executive, the son and heir of millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt.
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