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try where, of all others, there would seem to be less inspiration for it."
"Upon the hands of the Republican party an awful responsibility was placed last Tuesday. . . . It knows that reforms—great, far-sweeping reforms—are necessary, and it has the power to make them. God help our civilization if it does not! . . . It must repress the trusts or stand before the world responsible for our system of government being changed into a social republic. The arbitrary cutting down of wages must cease, or socialism will seize another lever to lift itself into power."
"Scarcely any phase of the election is more sinisterly interesting than the in-
