It is an old-fashioned political expedient; it is not adapted to the circumstances which we have to encounter in the present, and because it has no real foundation of truth or policy, it will meet with defeat and discomfiture.
Hoar expresses skepticism about outdated political strategies that lack relevance and truth.
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