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From this survey we are admonished not to hesitate in support of the new organization, from any vain idea of necessary permanence in the two old parties.
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Sumner emphasizes the importance of supporting new political organizations rather than clinging to old parties.
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Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Controlled by such a code, employing such representatives, sustained by such agencies, animated by such Furies, and producing such fruits of tears and bitterness, it must be open to question.
It is larger than the entire profit of all the commerce and manufactures of the world.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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