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 an abuse of power. Only in the adoption of a common international policy, condemning national as well as class exploitation, and setting all property upon a right footing as an instrument of human service, can we attain the social ideal. But we need not wait for this distant achievement before setting ourselves to the plainer and nearer task of putting our national economy on an equitable basis. The wastes as well as injustices of improperty are now manifest, and the roads to remedy stand open to every people who will assert their legitimate rights in the control of their economic life.