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Grover Cleveland: The experiment of substituting civilized methods for brute force as the means of settling international questions of…

On the recordJanuary 10, 1897
The experiment of substituting civilized methods for brute force as the means of settling international questions of right will thus be tried under the happiest auspices.
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Grover Cleveland
Democratic · New Jersey

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