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Bishop Morehouse

Morehouse is a respected church leader who initially believes charity can address poverty.

The book

Cover of The Iron Heel by Jack London
The Iron HeelJack London, 1908

Industrial wealth consolidates into an oligarchy and crushes the movement trying to oppose it.

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Morehouse is a respected church leader who initially believes charity can address poverty. After investigating conditions, he preaches that the church must side with the poor. Authorities conceal his speech, declare him insane, and move him through several asylums. Revolutionaries later try to find him, but the records vanish and his final fate remains unknown.

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