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HOW THE CASE STANDS.

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I believe that the danger of such conditions as are fast

growing up around us is greater for the very freedom which they mock. The words of the poet, with whose lines I prefaced this book, are truer to-day, have far deeper meaning to us, than when they were penned forty years ago:

"—Think ye that building shall endure
Which shelters the noble and crushes the poor?"

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