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U>lir (Commmuuraltli
Official Taper of the Socialist Party of Washington.
Published every Thursday by tho Commonwealth Publishing Co.,
210-217 Commerce Buildi Everett, Washington.
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Address all communications to The Commonwealth, 216-217 Com
merce Building, Everett, Washington.
AFTER NOVEMBER FIFTH.
Election day, November 5, 1912, will soon be here. We will, al
time, hold our four-year roll call of working progress. It will
be a time of rejoicing, a time of reward for long yean of agitation,
education and organization. The great growth of the socialist party
will astound the unthinking and arouse the indifferent.
But what should November 6 mean to us? Will our work be
done '
On November 5 less than one in ten of the workers and producers
of the nation will vote the socialist ticket. Nine out of every ten
will still be ignorant of their economic interest.
Still we will be recognized as one of the' large parties—the only
one with a firm foundation of truth and a certainty of future growth
and power. >
What will ho some of our "Immediate Duties?"
They will be many.
Among them are the following:
1.8 The building up of a stronger and larger dues-paying or
ganization of workers and producers.
2. The building up of powerful daily and weekly socialist news
papers. J
3. Attention to the election of school board members and the
consequent attention to the proper education of the next generation
of workers.
4. Attention to the work of elected socialist officials.
5. The careful and untiring support of the National Lyceum
Course of —the largest educational campaign ever undertaken
by the socialist party.
6. Individual research and study to make ourselves individually
worthy of the great cause for which we work.
7. Last, but not least, constant attention to events, on the in
dustrial field, in the great and ever-violent class struggle.
• • •
It really requires courage to consider the work before us after
November 5. But this work will be done. The first work mentioned,
the building up of our organization, is essential to the success of any
and all of our efforts.
Let us consider ways and means to make our organization
stronger and larger.
Registration books are open to all. After the name of each voter
is a statement of occupation. Secure a list of all those signed
"laborer." Take this list to your local. Send a postal card of invi
tation to attend your local meetings to each one on your list.
This is a suggested message for the back of your postal—it may
be written or printed
"You are registered as 'laborer.' As such, you are entitled to
the full social value of your toil. Only one political party is organ
ized to secure this for the working class —the Socialist Party. The
socialist local nearest you is at . You are cordially in
vited to attend its meetings, to ask questions, and if convinced of
your place in its membership, to join.
' Our meetings are always open to all.
"Our next meeting is on November 6 at 8 p. m.
" 'Workers of the world, unite.' "
The Commonwealth will discuss from time to time the different
phases of our party work, and will endeavor to give helpful sugges
tions gleaned from the many sources at our command.
IT SEEMS ALMOST A SHAME
To bother Judge Blaok about that debate in Everett, at the Coliseum
on November 4.
He is fighting the republican party.
lie is fighting the "bull moose."
He is fighting his own democratic party in the courts of Wash
ington.
Added to nil this is the fact that he has been challenged to debate
Anna A. Maley, socialist candidate for governor, and that he DOBS
NOT ACCEPT.
REMEMBER THIS, JUDGE BLACK: In spite of your claim of
being a man of great popularity at home Anna A. Maley received
KM more rotes tor governor than you did in the primaries in Sno
homisfa county. sTou are losing ground fast, and you will lose still
more ii' you refuse to mccl Comrade Maley in debate, and to try at
least to show why the workers of Everett should vote the democratic
1 icket.
Comments By Locals
WORKERS TAKE NOTICE.
Some Unpleasant Facts.
long time it bu been commented
ng ■oclii listi ' ii-i1 the Taci tma
Timei wm playing ■ confidence game on
The Timei and other Scrippi paper*
have been banding v '»' way "f
win! in return for "ur
confidence and our j>«imi.'s. Once II
tain • by ilobbering ink
over - it■ 11 can I Bob Hudge, the
. i>unt v iherlft » hose office dii
BtriW.tn.-ii k.i.- to the Greyt Harbor
tore bread
■ \ thej pr -ilh c v
■ told, in effort, that
ruiin;!
mk.
We see the Timci standing everywhere
and nowhere, trying to please opposing
ecouoniic classes in society and apparent-,
Ij- upholding eonfllcting Interests.
In perfect accord with its punt antic*
we now witness the Times in i'■ issues
of September 28 and 30 making use of
twistd facts and misleading statements
in order to assist some traitors to the
working class to destroy our socialist
party dues-paying organization. They
will certainly fail there. Bone, Burns
and Elnhaui will be repudiated by all
true socialists. ,
I- \. ■i % red blooded working man and
who X sous whether they !»■
. the '■];!
power, or, to the clan I bat Bl tl
power, "ill at once 'mit feeding penniee
ima Time* and line up with
achUve our i conomlc freedom
for publicity by I
Capitalism means opportunity for thi
sharper. Socialism mean* opportunity
tot everybody.
NO PRECINCTCOMMITTEEMEN R)R US
\ nnnili.i
pent I j committed pa
ticket in
Hie |
Hie -i Ii kel Wi i" hi opjMi •'! '"ii
ol hi i
ni In i>*t h eases ihe n i
: j , i,■» |ndl\
without I
v.» ■ Io have Ii kI i hem
c
milecmen." as they an- allowed I" 'I"
bj : lav. and Ihi | are ■ lalm
I o be the onlj re il pavrtj Thej are
cv,-n i hrcntenini n ' he
i. - - ii' ir p.ii i j and i ak« t heir propel tj
milt They claim that the law made by
republli :nis and lemocrat i fot iha v
lal lon nf their pa) tki n the
place of the socialist party con titution
in tha mat ter ol eh ilng oui pai t j of
ii.-i.-il-. and that ii we arc to have any
■tending as a political pally \\v must ■!"
,i. i hej .I", and accept a oom
..-.- sleeted by tha votes of all i
who want to call for socialist ballol
This self elected precinct commll i n
Seattle is in correspondence with locial
i-i s and ex socialists In Tacoma ami Bpo
k.inc. and hopes to get ■ feu prw Im t
commltteemen from othea placoi t" |oln
those In Seattle in Forming ■ "state cen
i ral committee " Thej would then take
over Hi" management ni' our splendid
duee-paying organiaatloi] <>f over *,000
members, ami our present slat "limit
tec and executive committee would auto
statically teee its authority. All thii
would be done by the power .>f the courte
through the enforcement of the direct
primary law.
NOW I believe thai the Socialist
Washington are so clear and uncompro
mising in their party tactics, that they
WOUM not think of allowing any but red
■aril members to vote for party officials,
and if a capitalist legislature really did
pass a law int?nded to force us to let
the public elect our committees, then we
SUTely would ignore the law, just as we
have already successfully ignored the in
rent of the "non-partisan" law.
But the fact of the matter is that
there is no law to force us to do any
thing of the kind, and the group of
lawyers who are leading this "precinct;
committee" scheme must know it, if they
are good lawyers.
There were doubtless some loyal so
■ialists who got elected as precinct eom
mitteemen because they thought the law^
required it. and they were not parties to
the Seattle plot to disrupt the move
ment. There were also some who ran,
mi the sticker ballot whose names were
put on without their knowledge.
My aim in this article is to clear up
the confusion as to how that section of
the law providing for election of precinct
eommitteemen applies to the socialist
party.
To understand this it is necessary to
THE NOTE BOOK.
The Metropolitan for October has a
very acceptable article on socialism,
written by Helen Keller. Rather plain
when a blind girl can see it.
In a recent number of the Coming Na
tion, Delis makes the astounding an
nouncement that capitalism has no liter
ature. Ye historians of the "great man"
theory, ye elegant writers of legal fic
tions, ye philosophers of the Herbert
Spencer type, ye novellatl decumbent be
neath the tears of the inconsolable weep
ing willows, would not the dogma that
capitalism has no literature rattle your
bones?
so Comrade Berger would trade the
Initiative and referendum for old-age
pensions, and for insurance against un
employment he would forget the recall.
We have always harbored the suspicion
that Berger 1! system was permeated by
the trade union germ and tv rdm
the pathology ol Fohn Hunter "two pro
cannot go on at i he same t lme In
11 line part of anj substance." A fig
for old agi is if we must buy
them uith our principles I ds Darrow
sayai "The worker! don't need them
they don't live long enough."
i mi- sweet s-' nt i.i. lavender i Inted,
delicately perfumed "Intalli liould
be ' nsconed In Ii Ii
drenched with Ottar d! Roses, and lei out
to dry. I " the iporting
fraternitj of Seattle, finding themsel
■ Inl fi'iini t he portals ol then i
ing Io
tilt" an order I l! filled
mi: had ■
;
"II I he I'l.li Id Dl '
town of inli-i-:
TIIF. OOMMONWF.AI.TH
ill II I M will.
analyze our form nf organization.
In law, offfftnuuitionfl nre classified,
nnd there aru different rules applied to
Hip different pinners. For Imttancr, there
nru corporations, joint stock companlsi,
voluntary ansoclatliMis, nnd political
parties. Each of these in in n different
class, governed by different rules.
Now the socialist party has n double
.Mil! The whole muss of voters who
vote for the socialist ticket comprise
what Ihe law regards ns a political
pnilys but Ilinse who hold pi mbershlp
cards, pay dues, '"-I in subject to '"ii
constitution constitute «lint the law
calls a voluntary association,
The law will not interfere with '""
regulate the ii-"1 of voluntary asso
ciations) and ihi general rule lias been
to let polll leal parties also make, their
own rules; but there Is a modem tend
ency to regulate parties by law, and thai
Ii the res ion for the primary la« pro
vision for precinct committccnien.
The primary lan nlso says that parties
may make their own ml"-, no the law
is contradictory, and the courts might
hold it to bo optional, or they might hold
Hint the legislature had no power to
make such a rule.
Supposing, however, for the snkp of
argument, thnt these precinct committee
men Mere recognised by the law us the
legal representatives of the socialist
party, there is absolutely nothing for
such a committee to do. When candi
dates were chosen by conventions i com
mittee was of some importance, because
the convention that was called by the
recognized committee was the one thai
got its candidates on the ballot under
the party name. But since the direct
primary came Into me such committees
are of no importance whatever except in
th" election of delegates to national con
ventions.
sin"" our delegates to national con
ventions are chosen by referendum of our
red card membership, it looks as though
the job of socialist precinct committee
man was a pretty worthless office.
The socialist party of Kin 1,' county
voted not to elect precinct committee
men, so there was I',, contest, and any
one who voted for himself for that office
would probably be elected by one vote.
This explains the "unbroken series of vic
tories" of the Insurgent faction in King
county. They are welcome to the offices.
but by their deliberate act of running
an opposition ticket, they have put
themselves outside the party.
They expected the approval and sup
port of Victor Berger, but Borger is a
socialist, and he told them plainly to do
their fighting, inside the party, and not
attack it from the outside.
As to the party property being award
ed to this precinct committee by process
of law —that is ridiculous. The only way
they can get control of a voluntary as
sociation is in the manner provided by
its constitution.
own predilietions of taste, education,
manners and habit of thought. The or
der was divert I'd from its original pur
pose —to a far loftier one, indeed —but
nevertheless it was diverted. Some of
the original founders were haled to the
tapis and then dismissed; others were
refused reinstatement after financial de-
linquency—never was conquest of the
conventionalities over the innovating
spirit more gilded and splendid. I
wonder if anything like that will ever
happen, or is about to happen to social
ism? I wonder if its rough working
clothes are about to be pilfered and
fancy dress substituted? I wonder if
there is no lesson harder for working
people to learn than if they would be
free they must depend on themselves
and not OH higher lips who would stoop
only through humanitarian incentives?
Why -linuiii a worklngman who Is sat
lafled with things as they arc take I In
trouble to votet We oan have things
as they are without voting for them.
Now, if the cost of living mounts
more rapidly i ban wages, then purchas
ing power la reduced; if purchasing
power la reduced the standard of living
declines; ii the standard of living de
clines Lasallo's Iron Law of Wages re
ceives verification; if the Iron Law of
Wages la to be verified at its ultimate
limit civilization is the cruelest engine
of oppression that ever starved babes on
mother's breasts.
I give herewith a sketch of Marxian
economic! which might be better done
bad I more time and li - • limitation as
to ■ pace, iii- last an important consid
eration since I attempt to compress 2500
pages of "Capital" into five minutes'
reading. I cannot refrain from remark
ing that attempt! of this kind merit
more indulgence than those rhetorical
outbuntl, however dazzling, which please
the ear only to starve the understand
ing.
A product is designed for one's own
use, therefore, in the yes of the user it
has use-value. A commodity, under the
capitiilUt system of production, U de
signed fur exchanging, therefore, it must
have > Xihange-value. and may have an 1
usually hiii use-value. It it tabor that
costs: nothing costs but labor. The c\
penditnre of labor power ercate* value.
| Then Vilua is crystallized ljln.r. The
value of ft flouiinodlty cnn Ih> more ' "'''<■
the value of the labor that reproduce!
It. Hut when wo any labor, we mcnir
•foclnl labor, average lai -' The air,
water, timber and land. ill Hi" of
grnss nnd xpririfj in Ihi desert Is wealth.
\V« estimate II *« Immune these tiling
run lie made to ' "iill Ibul to the •■•'in
fort nf mankind. When labor is ex
pended 'hi furnil of tangible wealth,
vnhic It made- If more vuluo is made
than U consumed, there is accumulation
mill the gcnlsis of capital. Capital i*
Hint form of i .hi" which under lln eapl
talUt mode of production II ill ■-..,' td to
extracting gain from Mil- process of
Value building. Notes and bonds in nil
their genus and species nro neither value
nor wealth —they nrp evidences if in
debtedness the symbol of the tiling.
When the lnborer created vnlun he U
recompensed with but ■ part of whnt he
him created. The difference between
that pnrt ami III" whole is surplus value,
which Is decomposed Into rant, profit
md interest: surplus value i-< the fund
of exploiters, Theoretically it is al the
point of production hero at i Ived at that
exploitation takes plaoa, not at Hi" point
of consumption. If I pay five cents fur
a glass of beer and feel aggrieved, it m
ot that the beer is too high, but thai
ili" five cents in not shared by thosp
who made the ben entirely. By the ex
ercise of monopoly the capitalist la able
to get you on both ends, coming and go
ing. S° when Hi" farmer, who is not
exploited at tho point of production, sells
his com mml it in a competitive market
and buys in a market dominated by mo
nopoly, lie feels the suction of the capi
tnlist antennae. The pressure of popu
lation on the limits of sustenance helps
the farmer and in time gives him a
natural monopoly instead of an artificial
one. Then he becomes the most rapac
ious enemy of the submerged sections of
society. By farmer we mean landlord
of course, and not tenant. Now we are
ready to go on. Price is the monetary
expression of value. Ideally, the price
of commodities should be based on their
values, go that one commodity would ex
change with another in which was the
representation of an equal quantity of
social labor. This might be done, and
would lie done in handicrafts, and yet
profit! could be realized. If prices were
computed on the basis of cost of produc
tion and an average rate of profit, on
absolutely all commodities, manufactur
ers would prefer a high cost of produc
tion. If shingles coat $1 per thousand
at the point of production, and if a mill
ii i- a capacity of a hundred thousand
iin! If the rate of profit in industrials
is 10 per cent, then that mill would earn
$10 per diem. Now if the cost of pro
duction should rise to $2 at the mill,
other conditions remaining as given, that
mill would yield gains of $20 per diem.
Why, then, do capitalists constantly
strive to reduce cost prices! It is be
cause that in ALL cases, profits are not
arrived at, nor prices made in that way.
No matter what the cost of a commod
ity, supply or demand when pronounced
one above the other, is the determining
influence on price within certain limits.
Price is again influenced by potential
values, in this way. If coal can be pro
duced in certain areas at $3 per ton and
in certain other ureas at $3.25, and if
the areas last referred to are owned by
competitive groups of capitalists, the first
group will not let the price go where the
second group can enter the market.
Again there are monopoly prices that
have nothing to do with values nor cost
of production, but are solely regulated
on the principle of what the traffic will
bear. In his first volume Marx lays it
down that price fluctuates about values,
and that profits are realized by selling
commodities at their values. This posi
tion cannot be maintained. No one knew
it better than Marx himself. At the
same time there are many socialists who
don't know it yet. Marx had to make
assumptions In order that modifications
might follow. In even the exact de
ductive sciences, like geometry, we have
to assume contrary to what we know to
lie the fact, that a line has length only,
and not breadth. Perhaps this will help
to explain. In "Wealth of Nations"
I,.in Smith examine! the production of
wealth from the standpoint of selfish
ness, absolutely ignoring human sym
pathy. No motives are considered but
sordid ones. In his "Theory of Moral
Sentiments" he examines the production
of wealth in the light of exalted human
motives. The thing is, viewed from its
good and bad side. One work supple
ments the other. This investigation
could not be carried on, In its two parU
simultaneously. To do so would be con
trary to the dialectic of Smith. We read
both works and by thesis, antithesis, ami
synthesis we reach our conclusions. The
ideas expressed in the third volume of
Marx could not be understood without
their expression free from all extraneous
influences, as given in volume I- In vol
ume 111 we learn that commodities al
most never exchange at their value*, and
that actually in industrials, the price of
a commodity IS based on the price of
production plug the average rate of
profit. I do not wish to deny that the
effect of this statement on students,
when they meet with it in the eighth
chapter of the third volume is to disgust
them with Marx, in the same way that
we were disgusted with Lawson when
Frenzied Finance turned out »uch a fi-1
aseo. However, the fault lie* with our
iclrei, Dot the great philosopher. Equal
capitals bring equal returns in equal!
time*, no matter how employed always'
[Comments on the World's Class Struggle
Carl Ulonska.
Jl^O*- ■ ■ :■•' m* • ■
Since Dr. Sun Vet Ron tnntranctd lim
belli in sociali-un, many other leaders of
tlii» Chinese revolution have dona like
wise.
Itoca)* have been orf?.miz*'d at Shang
hai, Wang Chung 1 and Petchlll, nn«l there
in still hope that B socialist party in
China will be organized. The lotiiM will
Im> affiliated with the [ntcntftMoilft] So
r inlist party.
Unless universal suffrage is granted
when the next Belgian parliament meets
in November, 500,000 Belgian working
men will go on strike.
'I In' bulls Ii New York city have gone
too far. During the parade of the In
dustrial Workers of the World and the
socialist party last .Saturday, a red flag
headed tho parade. As the parade moved
down one of the principle streets ■ bull
tore the flag from the bearer and con
fiscated it as evidence against the pa
radert. At the end of the trial, Inspector
SVlirnittburgor turned to the police as
sembled in the court room and laid:
"The red flag has as much right to be
flown as either the German or the Italian
or the green flag of Ireland. They (the
socialists) can fly a yellow flag or even
a black flag if they want to."
Augusta—The militia is in full control
of the street railway strike today, fol-,
lowing ■ fatal clash last night. Great
indignation is expressed by the populace
over the shooting of the strikers by the
militia. ,
Washington, D. C.—"Who are the de
generates?" Dr. Woods Hutchinson, the
New York publicist and physician, told
the American Public Health association
that the principal sources of immoral
women, drunkards, epileptics, criminals i
and the insane are the homes of the rich
and fashionable and the homes of the
poor country district, the slums, he said,
do not produce anything like the number
of defective citizens, as do the "ranks
of the 'Four Hundred.'" and the poorest
country sections.
Washington, D. C, Sept. 28.—Amid
the wild cheering of the delegates, social- i
ism was indorsed today by the interna
tional convention of Carpenters and Join
ers of America, representing 150,000
American trades unionists almost
unanimously.
Fairhope, Alabama, one of the most
noted single tax colonies in the world,
recently elected a socialist for mayor.
Claude A. Bowers, a Washington cor
respondent for a' syndicate of demo
cratic newspapers, sends out the follow
ing: "The old horror of socialism dimin
ishes. The democrats throw no obstacles
in the way of Congressman Berger, and
it is a significant thing that he is heard
with intense interest and is constantly
interrupted with respectful interroga
tions. The name of Eugene V. Debs is
heard here with profound respect. His
ability is no longer doubted. His hon
esty is no longer questioned."
disregard monopoly which regards ' not
these laws. Since capital is of high and
low composition, that is since the pro
portions of constant to variable capital
is different in each of its employments,
IF surplus value is earned only by the
variable capital, that portion devoted to
the payment of wages, then perforce,
while equal capitals receive the same !
profits, they do not produce the same
profits, consequently the commodities of
capital of high composition MUST habit
ually be sold above their values and the
commodities of capitals of low composi
tion MUST habitually be sold below
their values. On ABSOLUTELY no other
suppostion can you explain the law of
equal returns or average rate of profit,
or the law of faliling rate of profit, or
the law of such a thing as an average
rate of profit.
GEORGE ALLEX.
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Friday, October 11, l:u2.
.■><■ tit-- jvmii 1111)11 ,'iiiniirMii. any O n,
forcibly preventing a deputy from it.*
tending diet, but this was disreratf.'
ad by tin. court. '
111 spite of tho fact tlmt Govern,
Hiram Johnson of California, the IqJ
mooso Candidate for vice-president,
<lro39ed a mooting to which the adm»
sion wag free, in Cleveland, Ohio, n ol^
tluin 0,000 persons paid to hear Eugene'
V. Dobs, socialist presidential candidate
speak. Tho audience nt the Johniot
meeting fu leas than half tho erowj
that flocked to hear the only working 1
class candidate for president.
A straw ballot taken in the I.unkcn
hcimer brass works, Cincinnati, Ohio, r+
suited: Wilson 128, Taft 81, Roosevelt
18, Debs 92 and Cliafin ].
There are some ! i,OOO earning
women employed in about 4,000 estab-'
lishmenti in San Francisco.
Liverpool, England.— renewal of
labor troubles here ii threatened, owing
to the refusal of the dock board to bring
the wages of firemen and carmen up to
the local standard.
Hendaee, Sjwi in.—Street gatherings
were forbidden to everyone in many
Spanish cities yesterday on account of
the railroad strike.
The strike of the Union of Masters,
Hates and Pilots, of Honolulu, ha» been
won.
Manila—The cigar industry in Manila ■
is virtually suspended, 15,000 men being
out on strike and fewer than 1,000 fj£
work. We hay "prosperity" ( Vfvk
every corner of this "great and gloriooi
country of ours" (?).
Melbourne, Australia.—The increase ii
the number of strikes all through Aui?
Iraliii has set all the "justice" machine^
md "law and order" dispensers in mo-i
tion to devise ways of suppressing the t
labor movement.
New York.- Telegraphers' of the
New Jersey and Seashore railroad and 1
the Trenton division of the Pennsylvania
have joined other telegraphers of Pitta* 1
burg and Erie, who are demanding »{'
living wage. ? •">*!'
Manchester, N. V. —Free speech wat?
reinstated here today when Emil ' Seidel <
arrived to deliver his lecture. For th»
past two months the local police havy
made repeated announcements I that : no.
socialist meetings would be allowed and j
had ordered that no halls be rented to H
the socialist candidate. Appeal was
made to the national campaign com- ,
mittee of the socialist party for support .
in a free speech fight which was granted s
and this determined stand caused ',ft« 4
police to reverse their decree. A delega
tion of several hundred socialists "with I
red badges met Seidel at the train tad,
as a result of the action of the local j
police, over 10,000 people turned out tin
hear the socialist candidate for, vice*
president. A big torch light parade' wai*
held just previous to the meeting. ■ |i
Two socialist members of the PnH'j
3ian diet, Deputies Borchart and Lien
ert, were fined $25 and $12.50 respect-:;
ively for resisting the police when they!
were ordered to clear the chamber dur|
ing a debate on May 9. They ware!
given the alternative of going to'jail
for ten and five days. The two deputlelf
made a counter plea for the punishment!
>{ the police under the law penalizing?'
President Taft said of the bull moot
)arty that the progressive party is not
united on any cohesive principle, and is
only kept together by the ri-markim
personality of its leader. Were he to a)'
the party would go to pieces, for thi
cause of which so many glibly speak if
utterly Incapable of definition in vie»
of the crazy quilt character of the plat'
form. Sun sed. P
Judge Kelly of Kin;.-, county, MM
York, has issued an Injunction again*
speakers of the socialist party. The in
junction «i, made at the instigation o 1
the Oordngo Trust company, of Ktm
York. That we are living in a frer
country has become a huge joke.
)\
Twenty-one thousand people grcetei 1
Debs in Philadelphia, Pa. \'
h
In a poll of the Singer Manufacturim 1
company's employes, in Kliznlicth, N. >)
the nwialists received moro votes tha;
the other three parties combined. M
All Kansan and Oklahoma are •octhjnj'
with socialism. MuskagM fitizens gaif
I\'b» «n audience of two thousand. Tb*^
is a stirring campaign .ii in both »I*W

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