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“I hit upon the ballot box; for it had been told me so often that this was the means by which workingmen could better their condition. I took part in politics with the earnestness of a good citizen; but I was soon to find that the teachings of a ‘free ballot box’ ARE A MYTH, and that I had again been duped. I came to the opinion that as long as workingmen are economically enslaved they cannot be politically free.”—George Engel, Haymarket martyr