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civilised country in the world. They may, and perhaps 

 will, still claim for our present fiscal system those same 

 potentialities for good which Cobden and his followers 

 claimed for it half a century ago, but as facts are surer 

 than fancies, we prefer to believe the evidence of our 

 own eyes rather than trust further to the phantasma- 

 goria raised by the magic of false teachers. 



In other words, we find that as we have been led astray 

 by the political teaching of those who passed as our 

 friends, we had better take this question of politics into 

 our own hands and carefully examine it in our own way 

 before we allow it to lead us again a hair's breadth away 

 from our own best interests. 



