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The Promise Of American Life

CHAPTER VI
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Corporation lawyers and their clients appear frequently to believe in it.

Tammany offers tribute to it during every local political campaign in New York.

A Democratic Senator, in the intervals between his votes for increased duties on the products of his state, declares it to be the summary of all political wisdom.

The fact that Mr.Bryan incorporates it in most of his speeches does not prevent Mr.Hearst from keeping it standing in type for the purpose of showing how very American the _American_ can be.

The fact that Mr.Hearst has appropriated it with the American flag as belonging peculiarly to himself has not prevented Mr.Roosevelt from explaining the whole of his policy of reform as at the bottom an attempt to restore a "Square Deal"-- that is, a condition of equal rights and non-existing privileges.


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