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324 and tendencies which brought them to pass, means simply that they would be perpetual, for the beneficiaries of wrong do not surrender except upon compulsion. We flatter ourselves that in this country the people rule and that the government is a ready reflex of the popular needs, but alack and alas! it is the same perpetual conflict known in all other countries and in all other times; let us hope a diminishing conflict indicative of the time when the establishment of justice shall be the earnest purpose of all men.

Silverton, February 19, 1905.