{"id":45280,"date":"2025-11-23T20:43:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T04:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=45280"},"modified":"2025-11-23T20:43:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T04:43:37","slug":"rutherford-b-hayes-on-corporations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/11\/23\/rutherford-b-hayes-on-corporations\/","title":{"rendered":"RUTHERFORD B. HAYES ON CORPORATIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/1004143.Rutherford_B_Hayes\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/authors\/1458410404i\/1004143._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg\" alt=\"Rutherford B. Hayes\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cThe real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds of laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of these men and against the interests of workingmen. These need to be exposed and repealed. All laws on corporations, on taxation, on trusts, wills, descent, and the like, need examination and extensive change. This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations.\u201d<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2015&nbsp;<strong>Former Prsident Rutherford B. Hayes,&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/work\/quotes\/15819123\">Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States<\/a>, March 11, 1888<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rutherford Birchard Hayes (October 4, 1822 \u2013 January 17, 1893) was the 19th president of the United States, serving from 1877 to 1881. Hayes served as Cincinnati\u2019s city solicitor from 1858 to 1861 and was known as a staunch abolitionist who defended refugee slaves in court proceedings. Source:<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rutherford_B._Hayes\">&nbsp;Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds of laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of these men and against the interests of workingmen. These need to be&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/11\/23\/rutherford-b-hayes-on-corporations\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45281,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45280\/revisions\/45281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}