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We, too, must have our dikes, with engineers to keep them strong, with watchmen to patrol, with alarm-bells to ring; and we, too, must have our storks to destroy the vermin that weaken and sap our embankments.
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Sumner calls for the United States to establish its own defenses, drawing an analogy to Holland's protective measures.
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