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produce ever a fresh crop of evil. The voice of the 

 working and suffering millions must give out no uncertain 

 sound, but must declare unmistakably to those who claim 

 to represent them — Our land-system is the fundamental 

 cause of the persistent misery and poverty of the workers ; 

 root and branch it is wholly evil; its fruits are deadly 

 poison ; cut it down ; why cumbereth it the ground ? 



