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Diversity of employment, the spirit of industrial enterprise, the unification of financial interests, will tend more and more to assimilate the populations, more and more to enforce an agreement, if not as to measures, yet assuredly as to methods.
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James Blaine
Republican · Maine

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Blaine discusses how industrial enterprise and financial unification will lead to greater assimilation between populations.

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