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produce ever a fresh crop of evil. The voice of the 

 working and suffering millions must give out no uncertain 

 sound, but must declare unmistakably to those who claim 

 to represent them Our land-system is the fundamental 

 cause of the persistent misery and poverty of the workers ; 

 root and branch it is wholly evil ; its fruits are deadly 

 poison ; cut it down , why cumbereth it the ground ? 



