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86 consequences a greater calamity which can never be repaired. As between the two, we would rather take our chances with the first.” How far this feeling extends I do not know; possibly very far. It will be likely to make itself very much felt, if not in the Congressional

elections of this year, then certainly in the Presidential election two years hence, when the bills will have begun to come in and the people will have gained. a real “consciousness” of what it all means.

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