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conducted along the lines of sanity and honesty, 

 they produce a good more far-reaching than their 

 promoters suppose, and achieve results of greater 

 importance than those immediately aimed at. 



It is an excellent thing to win a triumph for good 

 government at a given election ; but it is a far better 

 thing gradually to build up that spirit of fellow- 

 feeling among American citizens, which, in the long 

 run, is absolutely necessary if we are to see the prin 

 ciples of virile honesty and robust common-sense 

 triumph in our civic life. 



