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An aroused community in the commercial metropolis of our country has unexpectedly succeeded in overthrowing a corrupt ring by which millions of money had been sacrificed.
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He praises the efforts of a community that successfully dismantled a corrupt political ring, celebrating civic engagement and reform.
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The devices of party can no longer stave it off.
Let loyalty to one man be exchanged for Love to Man.
The first is a heavenly sentiment, from God: the other is a device of this world.
Nay, more,--if it would be criminal in these several clusters of States to reëstablish the Institution of War as Arbiter of Justice, then is it criminal in the Commonwealth of Nations to continue it.
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