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And now, my friends, my story ends; 



This moral fits the case: 

 Let workingmen CO-OPERATE 



And free the human race. 

 Co-operation leads the way 



The only way to freedom 

 The way to rid the earth of drones, 



The world no longer needs 'em 



Shake off the chains that bind you down 



And stand" erect like men ! 

 And if you stumble by the way, 



You'll soon get up again, 

 And if we all co-operate 



For labor's true salvation, 

 The joyful sound will then resound: 



"A free and happy nation !" From The People. 



James Russell L,owell, speaking of "political bosses, n 

 which are the natural outgrowth and result of partisan 

 prejudice, says : 



"Could we only have a traveling exhibition of our 

 bosses and say to the American people, ' behold the shapers 

 of your National destiny !' A single despot would be 

 cheaper and better looking. It is admitted on all hands 

 that matters have been growing worse and worse for the 

 last twenty years, as it is the nature of evil to do. It is 

 publicly asserted that admission to the Senate of the Uni- 

 ted States is a marketable thing. * * It is notorious that 

 important elections are decided by votes bought with 

 money, or by the more mischievous equivalent of money, 

 places in the public service. 



"What is even more disheartening, the tone of a 

 large part of the press in regard to it is cynical or even joc- 

 ular. Parties refuse to see, or, if they see, to look into 

 vicious methods which help them to a majority, and each 

 is thus estopped from sincere protest against the same 

 methods when employed by the other. The people of the 

 Northern States thought four years' war not too dear a 

 price to prevent half their country being taken from them. 



