SAME AS IT EVER WAS
"Although there were criminals, prostitutes, and paupers among them, the population consisted largely, in the words of a contemporary journalist, of 'the immense army of proletaires which exist in every city, who live hardby in poor cabins and shanties, and whose labor supplies the profits upon which the merchant-princes and their aristocratic families subsist in luxury.'"
From Chapter V, The Tumultuous Republic
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