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Reform in the Gilded Age

Problem

Read the excerpt and answer the question below.
“You have won no victories worthy the name. You are slaves, every last one of you. . . . Arouse from your slavery, join the Social Democratic Party and vote with us to take possession of the mines of the country and operate them in the interest of the people . . . and then, and only then, will ‘glorious victories’ have been achieved and you and your comrades be free and your families happy.”
-Source: Eugene V. Debs, 1899
Debs most likely wrote his account for which of the following reasons?
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