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vital and economic one. It should engage the seri- 

 ous consideration of every patriotic, thinking citizen. 

 The fate of our Nation may depend upon its early 

 solution. We think of Nihilism, Anarchy and Bol- 

 shevism as the fruits of autocratic despotism, but had 

 commercial despotism not united with monarchial des- 

 potism in impoverishing the Russian peasantry, Bol- 

 shevism would have found neither place nor influence 

 in International affairs, nor Russia be a national wreck 

 to-day. Should not Americans shun as a contagion 

 every tendency toward impoverishing our rural popu- 

 lation ? 



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