THE NEBRASKA IITDEPEND32ITT
October 3, 1901
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Siucler won't telL
At tut even Rosewater Is for fusion
la Iw Ycrk.
Tt Wharton Barker. Joe Tarker.
Cera Dearer and Missouri World out
it are still uis the name "people's
party.
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Hearta paper i
tiTeae as the
ourr:.
editor "go tor"
rith as much vlndic
regular plutocratic
Vli it ever occur to anj f Use pluto
xratic -4Uont that noisome praise and
disgusting Cattery Bight excite an an--turtlat
list as much aa a severe criti
cism?
THX CAMPAIGN
The question to be decided In this
campaign Is whether the people of the
state are In favor of good government,
honestly and efficiently administered,
or desire the Incompetency and need
less cost that has been the distinguish
ing features of the state government
since the "redeemers" took charge. at
the state house. Under the fusion state
government, the bonded state debt "was
paid off. the apportionment to schools
almost doubled, the cost per capita of
maintaining the Inmates of the prisons
and asylums reduced almost one-half,
every cent of the money 'paid by the
tax-payers, was honestly disbursed and
nti a cent lost by embezzlement or in
competency. Is that the kind of gov
ernment that , the people of this state
w.int or do they want a government
which through the Incompetency of Its
employes causes loss to the amount of
hundreds of thousands of dollars, that
reduces the appropriations to the com
mon schools, that holds up the money
appropriated by the people's represen
tatives for the maintenance of the uni
versity so that favorites of the party
may get interest upon it?
Any man who has looked over the
work of the last republican legislature
knows that a debt was provided for of
about a quarter of a million of dollars,
that being the amount of the appro
priations over what the tax levy will
produce. Since that time, two of the
great. Institutions of the state have
been burned on account of the Incom
petency of the guards employed. Dur
ing the fusion administration fires
started several times In the different
Institutions, but the guards were on
duty and they were extinguished be
fore much damage was done, the most
serious being when a laundry took
fire which was located In a frame
building, but it was extinguished and
the building saved.
No state ever had a better govern
ment or a more economical one than
he refuses to support part of the ticket
and has' the following to say about
the platform:
The platform is as silent as the
tomb upon every issue upon which the
democratic party gained so signal a
victory two years ago the platform
that pledged municipal ownership of
all utilities and particularly of water;
that pledged legislation to restrain the
tramway within proper limits,' and a
policy of "requiring full and fair, com
pensation for all municipal franchises.
Why so good a platform one that gave
so sweeping a victory to the county
democracy two years ago should have
been broken up and laid carefully
away, plank by plank, this year, per
haps , the platform f ramers will ex
plain. - ' -"
Perhaps the most ungenerous thing
the convention could do it did. It de
clined to nominate either a former sil
ver republican or populist. Neither
did It in any way acknowledge the good
work of either of its late political al
lies. Not a word was spoken in recog
nition of the signal services of the two
other silver parties in the work of
rescuing Colorado from the clutches of
the gold power." -
The Independent hopes to see the
populists of Denver go to work and re
organize, put out a full ticket, placing
such of the democratic nominees who
are worthy of support upon it' and fill
up the remainder with good populists.
It will take some years yet to educate
some democrats up to the point where
the populist party will no longer be
necessary.
THE TERM "ANARCHIST"
The Independent has always held
that mobs and gangs of lynchers were
anarchists. The use of the term In that
connection has been criticised. It is
said that the men who engage In mobs
and lynchlngs are not opposed to law,
but are simply afraid that the law will
not be enforced. Had the mob that
rss4 far enough to get where the
oil democratic party camped en the
tarlS question about fifty years ago.
power. Although bitter slanders were
circulated by the republican press and
ofSclal investigations were had, the
outcome of It all was that the republl-
a. ' m .a jl
r. MnMln flrt Ar,ntiA the cans icemsra were lvrteu uu rcyuii.
pepaiiat financial theory ta the mala that not a cent of money had been dl-
and cow they propose to adopt the
democratic theory concerning tariff
legislation. Anything to get the
c fie.
The republican party claims to be the
mw e-.t rm yrl ! lflr It ft riven
w . " I . . , . I . , . 4. v ooVo in
ome evldeace that It is. It ha prog- I lGe iusionisra gave waue iney were m i ouriieu a youug 5iu t
Colorado any iear tnai me cnuiiua.
would not be convicted and punished?
Had the mob at Leavenworth any such
fear? None at all; and no one will
even assert that It had. While they
were engaged in their horrid work:,
they were anarchists and nothing but
anarchists. In discussing this the
Record-Herald says
"It will not answer to differentiate
and sav that the term anarchist is
properly used only of men who advo
cate the killing of kings and other rul
ers. There is complete anarchy In a
district when a mob of lynchers defies
the government, terrorizes the local au
thorltles and murders a man with ev
ery species of atrocity. This would be
true If the man were punished for a
crime and his guilt were proved. But
the anarchical character and tendency
of the act Is driven home upon the con
science with a special emphasis when It
is known that the victims of these out
bursts of passion are sometimes killed
The lesson f the Omaha primaries
Jj this: Iloewater undertook to carry
lies Baker oa one shoulder and Major
J.!ccr a the other. It was too big a
14 for the little man and he failed to
get there.
The republican party having deter
mined to come into the democratic
camp almost in a solid body are using
the word "reciprocity." both as a
shield and a mask, behind which to
bide while it makes the change of base.
. The republicans of Iowa are now ail
for free trade under the tamo of re
ciprocity and will make a campaign
tspoa it. At last they are camping
where the democratic party camped
thirty years ago. There" progress for
yox
Jlr. Bryan remarks la The Commoner
that The republican papers that were
to quick to spread reports misrepre
senting Chancellor Andrews on lying
and anarchy are slow to publish his de
nials. Instead of excusing or defend
ing either he denounced both."
If any one has , any doubts about
what the fate of this state will be un
der republican rule, he only needs to
remember what that party did for It
,wbea It tad endijputed control and
what the same party has done for the
state of Pennsylvania and the city of
Philadelphia.
When an English interest Is at stake
the doctrine -that blood Is thicker
4 than water never has any influence
ia determining the result. Take the
'Alaska boundary for an instance. On
other occasions the British statesmen
ana xneir American lacaeys make a
great deal of IL
A lJincoIa republican remarked the
einr cay; -remaps this may be a
fusion year and I dont care much If It
is. The closer and more doubtful this
state Is between pres;2entil elections,
the more federal appointments we will
Tt"" And The more pensions for Old
jolliers. remarked a listener.
Republican city councils have degen
erated to the point where they will
rpecclat upon the funeral decorations
. pat up la memory of a murdered presi
dent. The Patersoa, N. J. city council
aent a tin for decorating the city hall
la memory cf McKinley for Just twice
as much as a contractor tad agreed
to do it for.
RosewateT still sticks to it that fed
eral oSclals commissioned by Presi
dent McKinley had to be paid money to
. get them to support the ticket. The
. Omaha federal See must have been
determined to take all the traSe would
bar- That has always been the doc
trine vt the corporations that have
sapporud the republican party.
verted from the use to which It had
been appropriated and no fusion officer
had been the cause of the state losing
a cent.
The whole outlook after ten months
of republican control has been changed.
By the time the burned public build
ings are replaced and the deficiencies
are provided for, this state will have to
face a new debt created under one two-
year's term of republican rule of more
than a million dollars. The question
in this campaign therefore Is not cloud
ed. It is the plain proposition: Do
you prefer an Incompetent govern
ment that plunges the state into a
fearful debt, that can't qyen run the
penitentiary, but must secure the ser
vices of an old fusion employe to pre
vent the escape of all the convicts, or' j though there Is ej proof against them.
do you prefer an efficient government
that gets the state out, instead of
plunging It Into debt?
BITTERNESS Of GALL
The hatred of the gold democrats for
W. J. Bryan Is a hatred so deep that
It cannot be described. It has vileness
about it and malignity that Is fiendish.
While many republican papers have
said complimentary things about the
conduct and words of Mr. Bryan during
all the sad time after the president was
shot, the gold democratic organs seek
to employ the sadest cf all calamities
to make attacks upon him. If all ie
records of journalism is searched no
such evidence of the most bitter hate
can be found as In some expressions
In the New York World, among which
is the following:
"A devilish discontent with condi
tions logically due to ignorance, In
competency or sloth Is the instrument
of the evil one for fomenting anarchy
and inciting perverts to assassination
and other crimes.
lt seems to the World, therefore,
that William J. Bryan made a serious
mistake In saying at this time:
"While we are legislating to pre
vent any manifestation of the anarch
Istlc spirit on American soil we should
avoid those things which breed an
archy.'"
The malice of that editorial is only
equalled by Its want of logic. Does the
World mean to say that we should not
avoid those things which breed an
archy? The statement of Bryan was
statesmanlike. The statement of the
World only shows malice.
COLORADO POLITICS
Last winter the men who had been
elected to the Colorado legislature as
populists with perhaps one or two ex
ceptions, announced that their adhesion
to the democratic party and Tom Pat
terson, who was a populist, was elected
United . States senator. . After that, he
also declared that hereafter he would
affiliate with the democratic party. The
Independent at that time declared that
all that was 111 advlsd and would tend
not to harmonize the two parties In one
body, but more likely end ' In a dis
ruption. Last week a democratic con
vention assembled in Denver and now
Patterson finds that It has made a bed
for him which is too narrow, too short
and full of chestnut turra and he re
fuses to He in 1L Through the News
They may be absolutely Innocent, and
It Is often the case that they are
hanged for minor offenses."
The populist party has always stood
for law and order stood thus when
assailed by every vile epithet that
malice and hatred could invent. Late
ly the leading republican organs have;
begun to plead the baby act and whine
about criticism and cartoons. Neither
it nor its policies have ever been as
sailed with half the bitterness and vi
tuperation that has been poured out
upon the populist party. We never
whined nor pleaded the baby act. We
returned against the assaults sound
arguments and cogent reasoning. We
have never asked that a law be passed
to suppress the publications of the
banks and the trusts.
A NOTABLE EXCEPTION
In an article on "Individuality," Mr.
O. S. Marden says in Success:
'With some notable exceptions,
newspapers lack individuality. Their
opinions are impersonal, and the edi
tors are lost. Few people know who
writes the editorials or the leading ar
ticles. The days of Dana and Greeley
and Bowles seem to have gone for
ever. Nobody In particular is respon
sible for any opinion or policy. Ev
erythlng Is referred to the stock-hold-eis.
Not only do the editors lose their
individuality, but so also does every
one who is connected with each paper.'
It will be generally conceded that
The Independent is one of "the notable
exceptions." As for the great dallies,
nc one cares who writes the editorials
for they are not of importance enough
to attract the attention of thinking
men. The great social questions of the
day the things of real Interest are on
the "Index expurgatorlus" of every
plutocratic journal in the land. The
whole trouble arises from a subsidized
press. When. that policy was adopted
by plutocracy it killed everything orig
inal and of interest that had before
attracted the attention of thinking
men.
The Associated press in reporting
bond purchases finds it convenient not
to say what premium was paid. It has
suddenly dawned upon the "financiers
that 40 per cent premium paid to re
purchase tonds issued only three or
four years ago is such a very-fat thing
for bond-adders that It is not likely to
;be popular with the people.
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1 1
HEAR THEM HOWL
The plutocratic " press has engaged
n a new performance during the last
two or three weeks. It may be called
new repedition of the 'Baby Act."
t weeps over the degeneracy of the
press, meaning that portion tnat nas
been assaulting the "greed and glory"
deas of the millionaires. Do these
gentlemen remember so long ago as
1896? If anything in all the history
of the world ever equalled the bitter
ness and vituperation that they em
ployed at that time the historians have
ailed to record it. Men with world
wide reputations as educators and
scholars, bankers xf unsullied reputa
tion, business men against whom a
word of scandal had never before been
uttered, were pursued as if they were
wild beasts of the jungle. Their pri
vate characters were assailed, their
fortunes were wrecked and in one or
two instances they were harried until
they sank into early graves. Why?
Because they took a position on. a
strictly scientific question that plutoc
racy thought, was inimical to Its In
terests.
The men who engaged In that are
now talking. like saints from heaven
of the vituperation of the Hearst's pa
pers! Never at any time has there
been an article In those papers-r a
cartoon for that matter that ap
proached in quality of the gall of bit
terness, that these editors poured out
upon the head of every prominent man
whom they thought was opposed to the
nterests of the grabbers who would
gather to themselves all the increased
products of labor that has accrued
from scientific discoveries and the in
ventions of -the nineteenth century.
Bryan was of ten, cartooned as a snake
a viper that had been warmed to
ife In the bosom of. society and now
sought to sting to death his benefactor.
After having made a record of vile
ness that was never equalled Lauten-
beck, one of the chief managers of the
republican . campaign declared that if
Bryan were elected he would never
take his seat they now set up a whine
about attacks upon public men. The
opposition press has been a model of
courtesy when compared with the hy
pocrites who ; set up a howl about
Hearst's papers. The subsidized edi
tors have been hit where it hurts. Not
half of them could run their papers for
a week if they had to rely upon the
public for support. Let them still con
tinue to "hyphenate" and draw upon
the republican campaign fund to meet
expenses, yes, and let them continue
to howl. That is all that they are able
to do. Not one of them can write a
half column article on any economic
question that could command the at
tention of a thinking man.
REPUBLICAN FINANCIERING
The wisdom of republican national
financiering Is past finding out by any
man who is endowed with common
sense. Since the republicans gained
control of the national government,
four or five hundred million of bonds
have been issued. The other day Sec
retary Gage went Into the open market
and bought back $1,590,000 at $140 fiat.
What common sense is there in issu-;
ing bonds and then buying them back
at 40 per cent premium? Is there any
common sense or any other kind of
sense in such transactions as that?
The men who invested in those bonds
have been drawing , their interest and
now they are given a premium of near
ly half their face value to get them
back! No doubt the bond-holders think
now, as they always have thought.
that republican financiering is the best
in the world. , But what do the people
who have to, pay the interest and the
premiums that these bondholders get
think of it? Those who belong to the
populist party think-that: it is public
robbery of the poor for the benefit of
the rich. The masses who vote the re
publican ticket think that It Is wisdom
of the very highest order and any one
who has the temerity to criticise it is
encouraging anarchy and that on their
heads rests in part the blood of the
murdered president. Why they should
think that way is another thing that
no pop can find out."
THE TALK IS TOLD
Perhaps all that ever will be known
is now known about the assassination
of the president. It does not appear
that there was any conspiracy, if there
was, the authorities failed to find any
proof of It The most important fact
developed is that In several states
there are anarchist societies often hold
ing meetings in which the murder of
rulers is openly advocated. These so
cieties are composed wholly of foreign
ers who have been given asylum in
this country. Emma Goldman and
those arrested in Chicago on charges
of conspiracy have , all been released
and are now free to go about the coun
try advocating murder the same as be
fore. , ' ' 'V
As to the assasin, all the evidence
goes to' show that It was his own act
which he committed without the as
sistance of others. He is a young man
of feeble intellect and after his con
viction, when being taken to the peni
tentiary where he will -finally suffer
death, almost totally collapsed. While
the law cannot reach them, the real
i murderers of the president are Emma
luoiaman ana - inose uaers wno
preached the doctrine of murder to this
weak man. That anything ever pub
lished In the papers, any cartoons or
fierce discussions, had the , least to do
with the act of the young man has not
been proved. ; That he ever saw a pa
per containing them has not been
shown. All. that Is known is that he
... - - .. .
listened to speeches by Emma Goldman
which he said "set his brain on fire."
That being the case, all the 'writing
that .has , been done and there, have
been hundreds of columns ' of it to
prove that any of the discussions be
tween political parties in the United
States or that any partisan publications
had in the least influenced the act of
the assassin, is simply waste of good
white paper. Anarchists hate one gov
ernment and one political party with
the same fierceness that they do an
other. v This writing has been for po
litical effect and considering the cir
cumstances, it is about the vilest sort
of stuff that ever saw the light of day
not much differing in hate and false
hood from anarchy itself. The tale is
told and it will pass into history.
In a private letter from. a gentleman
well known in Boston, Mass., occurs
these sentences: "The earnest efforts
of the authorities in the populist party
in Nebraska which has no heavy con
tributors, to pay off its debt, com
mends it the business men to whose
notice it has come. The party is poor,
but it seems determined to pay Its
debts, which goes to show that the
charge of "repudiators" made against
them was false."
Meserve held the treasury against
the thieves for four years, during
which time the state never lost a cent.
Now he has invented a pocket-book
which' is about the neatest thing to
save the cash ever invented. Those
made for gentlemen are a sure thing
to hold coin, and those for ladies who
always carry their pocket book In
their hands has a neat arrangement
that prevents pocket-book snatching. It
is called the 20th Century Coin Purse.
Several of the millionaires have
lately been caught stealing contrary
to law, among them Mr. Gates of the
wire trust. He played the smuggler
and got a lot of diamonds Into the
country without paying duty on them.'
But he was caught and had to put up
$27,000. He had been stealing accord
ing to law so long that he evidently
arrived at the conclusion that a little
stealing In defiance of law would not
hurt his reputation.
If any slick-tongued stranger ap
pears about the' farm these days and
wants to sell something and "take your
note for it," don't shoot him on the
spot, but kick him clear off the place
and then set the dogs on him as he
goes scooting down the road. There
are reputable business men In your
neighborhood who have everything
that you need to buy, and who, if
they don't make their guarantees good,
you have some sort of a chance to get
at them.
The coaling question seems to have
been as serious a question with the
fleet off Santiago as it is to the house
holders in Lincoln, with the odds in
favor of the fleet as the coal trust did
not have such a cinch on it as.it has
on the householders. The household
ers have to walk up and pay, their tri
bute just as the French had to after
the war with Germany. There has been
a war made on the householders and
they were utterly defeated. That war
closed two years ago when the trusts
carried the country and now they are
collecting their war Indemnity. '
Sometimes it seems very strange to
a pop that reason has so little to do
with the conclusions of the followers
of Mark Hanna. Thousands of them
came to the conclusion that fusion was
disreputable, immoral and altogether
disreputable. They formed that con
clusion from statements In the papers
that they read. Now since they have
learned that In several cities of the
east' where the republicans are In the
minority, they have formed a fusion to
get the offices, these people have sud
denly changed their opinions and have
come to the conclusion that fusion is
all right, at least for the republicans...
Three " or four of the trusts didn't
com4 to time with their dividends at
the last call, among them the Linseed
Oil. trust, the Standard Rope and
Twine, Amalgamated Copper and two
or three smaller ones." This effort to
pay dividends on stock watered three
or four hundred per cent will prove a
f allure, although the trusts may force
prices far above what they ought to
be. That is what The. Independent has
been saying all the time. Watering
stock is stealing it may be stealing
according to law but nevertheless it
is Inst, plain larcency, whether it Is
done by Vanderbilt, Carnegie of J
Pierpont Morgan and the men who do
it are thieves. They may escape pun
Ishment many crimes go unpunished"
in this wicked world but It Is a crime.'
The people who they steal "from are,
those persons who have invested, their"
hard earned money, In worthless stocks'
In nna Inelgnra anil tha rittiei tiaina
sons'who are forced to pay exhorbltaik
prices for. trust goods.
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INFAMY. ACKNOWLEDGED
Republican politics sometimes get
too foul for even Rosewater to stomach
and he blurts ' out a protest. . After
that, he goes on supporting it as if
nothing had happened. Rosewater made
an address the other day and after
ward printed it in his own paper. In
this address Mr. Rosewater said that
in order to induce certain men who
held office under the republican admin
istration to support the republican
ticket, 4,the , national committee had
to send" several thousand dollars 'to
Omahal" ' , :
It seems that the republican party Is.
worse than The Independent ever said
it was. This paper always supposed
that ; the 'republicans who were given
office supported the ticket without pay
although it has charged that a great
many voters were bought with cold
cash. Mr. Rosewater asks: 'Can you
imagine anything' more disgraceful
than that we had to buy office-holders
last year?" The Independent answers
that it can. ' The infamy of buying
votes exceeds the - infamy of , selling
votes, and Mr. Rosewater- seems to
have done the buying. He did not fur
nish the money to do the buying but
he was a member of the national, com
mittee and must have v handled ; the.
funds. . ' - ' ' '. .
. . ; IT IS BUSINESS : ; ' '
The prison binding twine manufac
tory in Kansas netted the state $7,000
profit during 1901, besides saving to the
farmers many thousands of dollars" on
the twine which was bought of the
trust. The price of the prison twine
forced the trust to lower its price for,
all that It . sold in Kansas. 'Here is
straight business, common sense and
good financiering. ' The legislation that
secured this was enacted by the pop
ulists against the fierce opposition of
the republican party, a party that is
always talking about "business." All
the "business' that the managers of
that party ever seemed to be interested
in was'the business of the trusts. The
business of the farmer never interests
them.
- r
Malthus claimed that population In
creased faster than the mean's of sup
porting it and therefore there was un
told disaster in the near future. Re
publicanism teaches that production
has '.so far out-run population that a
worse disaster than' Malthus ever
dreamed of threatens us in the near
future and we must conquer foreign
nations and force them to " buy our
surplus products or we will all starve
to death. Now this writer never took
any stock In Malthus and he, wouldn't
acknowledge the ownership of a share
of the republican ; kind if some one
would present It to him "and give a
French automobile as a bribe to take
it. . , o
The whole effort , of the plutocratic
press is ? now : expended in trying to
convince the' American people that free
speech breeds anarchy. In regard to
that Dr. Washburn, Mr. Roosevelt's
pastor; , in his memorial discourse' at
Oyster bay, said : ' - - : .
"Neither a free press nor free speech,
is responsible for anarchy or for the
crimes committed in its name. ? An
archy does not exist because or a free
press and free speech. It did not have
its origin here, but it grew up In the
poverty ignorance and lack of moral
training of other countries. If has
been , transferred here, neither a free
press nor free speech Is . to.-blame for
, It should be remembered thatJn the
law . suit that so disgruntled Bishop
IJonacum, tnat there was ho political
question Involved. It was a quarrel be
tween the, bishop and members of his
own church, other,. Catholics who tilnk
that they are lust as good, Catholics as
the bishop. Tne suit .went against the
bishop and then he took occasioa to
get eyen with the Judge by denouncing
him in a political letter, warning two
conventions that we're to meet In Lin
coln not to oaie to nominate hin4 , al
though he well knew that tie- Judge
was not a capdidate for nomination.
Several bishops have engaged in fanci
ful antics during the last three or four
years, but this last "takes the cake."
According to the republican editorial
writers there was never a statesman or
patriot in all the history of th$ United
States whose speeches and writings did
hot have a tendency. to breed, anarchy
and who was not guilty of appealing to
class prejudices. , Among those , who
were guilty of this 'was William'-McKinley.
The following is a sample of
his .anarchy-breeding speeches which
all the republican" edito'rs now de
nounce. But a few years ago Mrl Mc
Kinley said: ' ' - '
"Human rights and privileges must
not be forgotten in the mad race for
wealth. The government of the people
must be by the people, and not by a
few of the people. Power, it must be
remembered, which is secured by op
pression and usurpation, or by' any
form of injustice, is soon overthrown."
The republican papers are very fond
these days of calling attention to the
fact that Secretary Gage has been re
ducing the national debt. They are not
so fond of telling that to' -reduce the
national debt $33,000,000, he has paid
out over $40,000,000 which is a clean
gift to the bond-nolders of $10,000.
000 in the premiums that he has -paid.
To make gifts of the money taxed out
of the people of the United States to
bond-holders Is the very- acme of re
publican financiering. sThe ' excuse
that is given . for " buying in f govern
ment bonds at 40 per cent premium
may fool the mullet heads, but it will
fool no one else. Any man with a gov
ernment bond would be glad-to de
posit it as security and take that much
money out of the treasury and there
are a dozen other ways that monjy
could be kept from piling up in the
treasury.
.;;-"."'--. 'WITH REGXIET : '-"
As soon as the article in the World
Herald attacking the populist platform
and defending ' the Millard-Bartley
transaction appeared every reasonable
man knew that a blow had been struck
at the reform forces in this state that
might prove serious. It is with , the
deepest regret that The Independent Is
forced to take this matter up, for It Is
an unpleasant thing to have to defend
the party from onslaughts made by .the
only : daily of general circulation in
the state which has been considered an
advocate of the fusion cause.', Protesta
tions were expected from the thousands
of populists who have with some mis
givings agreed to keep up the fusion
movementn this state against this
course of the World-Herald, but - they
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