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William Graham Sumner
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Sumner’s dominant interest in political economy, as revealed in his teaching and writing, issued in a doughty advocacy of “free trade and hard money,” and involved the relentless exposure of protectionism and of schemes of currency-debasement. On the “Forgotten Man”: He works, he votes, generally he prays — but he always pays — yes, above all, he