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If all this be so, then has our President a most extraordinary power, never before dreamed of.
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Sumner reflects on the unprecedented powers held by the President, suggesting they are alarming and unprecedented.
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Still further: every ship-of-war that floats costs more than a well-endowed college.
The subterfuges of the politician cannot escape it.
As the Brotherhood of Man is practically recognized, it becomes impossible to restrict the feeling within any exclusive circle of country, and to set up an unchristian distinction of honor between civil war and international war.
According to recent calculations, its annual cost is not less than a thousand millions of dollars.
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