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or fail to respond, and that promptly, to their demands 

 upon them, they must be content to abide the con- 

 sequences. When the issue is fairly joined, as it will 

 be very soon, the people at large will not fail to make 

 common cause with the farmers against the monopo- 

 lists, and it will be an evil day for Congress should it 

 continue to champion the cause of the monopolist 

 against the sovereign people, whose power is irresistible. 



