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greed with confiscation. No student of history, espe- 

 cially of the history of the great corporations of the last 

 century we mean, of course, the ecclesiastical bodies 

 can fail to discern the fate of many of our great rail- 

 way companies. One set of men after another growls 

 and submits. One Legislature after another threatens 

 and is cajoled or bought off. But the intolerable op- 

 pression continues, and year by year the instinct of re- 

 bellion grows stronger and stronger, until it has coher- 

 ence enough for demagogues to make it a plank in their 

 platforms. Then no man can stem the tide or set a 

 limit to party fury or popular injustice. You can hear 

 the first mutterings of the storm in the proceedings of 



