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raw products to her Is ai iin to ui But om ir D A nds her pr ip i\ and her ability to buj w w isl) her w II I w n sak and for our o\* n. li is BO W Ith nat >ns Tin is a democrn of thrift and fall dine erned b} natural and inviolabl aws, Thrift and fair d ilin helj h oth< r> whei I >ven toing defl ts< If. II

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fai ilin ire the 1 ad rs of cii ili itioi w may well I m om ward a avari tnd In tble methoils. We owe our industrial preemii >tl amr > ur laws, the cor] itions, I onomic editions and natural laws f trade ai forcing them into fjr unbinations. w i - m not chain thos nditions, and we ai U h to be worst I K in a ntesl against ilit laws nature and tin inevitable ti id trad But there is no rule of moral action binding the individua] man which do - not i st on men in tmbinations. I 1 rations ai subj< t to the same moral >de as individual men, and tin \ arc amenable to the people who ci ated them as individual men ai not. Such of them as use the po^ rs which th poop] have granted to them to crush individuals and br d D tin • "in and limit the volume of trade, su h as i fuse in rmation i rning theii affairs and resort to legal sul • ti-stort dishorn lin, such as >rrupt political action that thej may sei prerogatives op] d to the common n al, ai i 1 punished and regulated, or strangled. Such is an M to b nti died will be strangl l. The people arc not ing to bl< thehiehwavs traffic, or 1 ikoroverthi H the law of tract, but thej are not going to be despoiled or defied tin »uirh tl unlawful exercise of privileges which they have

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nfen ind * hich thej in \\ ithdraw. The hi liways of progi ss must all be strewn with the wre v aj ni s. Along such road grappling with such responsibilities than\ ifi idvancing to its completes! triumphs. It uiiiv I moi to •me people to be undisturbed, it \UA\ I ai p to k p i ited, but if democracy were to main tain « \ iusi\ i and avoid eont< sts at a time when the older