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Let us briefly restate our own position. We hold it

to be the duty of Free-trade Unionists and of all moderate men to vote at this crisis for Tariff Reformers because that is the only effective way of preventing a Constitu- tional revolution. Tariff Reform is an evil, but an evil which is as nothing compared with the establishment of an unlimited and uncontrollable oligarchy armed with the terrific instrument of an autocratic single Chamber. Tariffs may be imposed, but they may also be repealed by the ordinary operation of the law. Single- Chamber government once established, as the history of the Long Parliament and of the French Convention shows, has to be got rid of by physical force.

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