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Still further, in its discrimination of the old States, it assumes a guise well calculated to tempt them into its support.
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Sumner warns that the proposal's appeal to old States is a strategic move that could mislead them into supporting it.
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But so long as War exists as an Institution this terrible inconsistency must appear.
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.
They belong to a system so essentially irrational, that all the admitted virtues of many of its agents cannot save it from judgment.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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