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ing men, the sane citizens and the real 

 business men have kept out of pohtics, 

 regarding tliem as wasteful, if not worse. 

 Thus the political game has fallen into 

 the hands of the less worthy, with the in- 

 evitable results. But Taft's rude jarring 

 of the national belief that in matters of 

 international probity the United States 



leads the way has effectually awakened th<; 

 more serious elements of the population 

 The newspapers of importance, almost with- 

 out exception, have united to denounce the 

 denunciation or ignoring of treaty rights ; 

 professors at the great universities have in- 

 veighed to their students against this sullying 

 of the Stars and Stripes, whilst a very active 



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 ami Japan. The Suez route will still be the sliorter route from Britain to Auuralia and the East, but \ew Zealand will be 

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