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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, N g”BMM i NS NOVEMBER 18, 1902 | TUESDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Propriclor. Addn’ss All Communications to W. . S LEAKE, Manager TELEPHONE Ask for THE CALL. Tfhe Operator 1.ill Connect You Witk t_e Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third, S. F. | EDITORIAL ROOMS .217 to 221 Stevemson St. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: TARIFF REVISION. HE CALL said that the retirement of Speaker liendcrsén definitely settled the future of tariff revision and established it as a Republican pol- jey. Current developments prove the correctness of m;r forecast. The West controls the next House. No Eastern candidate for the Speakership is considered. That power will pass from Iowa to Illinois with the election of Cannon, and a Western man, probably Babcock of Wisconsmn, will supplant Payne of New York at the head of the Committee of Ways and Means. Though contradictory reports are given out, there every reason to believe that the coming short ses- sion of Cengress will be followed by an extra session to comprehensively revise the tariff. This is a bold T CALL Cncluding Sunday), one yea: e® s28iss SUNDAY CALL. One Year. WEEKLY CALL, One Year All Postmasters are wuthorized to receive subseriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mafl subseribers in ordering change of address should be particuler to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure a prompt and correct compliance with thelr request. | OAKLAND OFFICE ..1118 Broadway C. GEOlib KROGNESS, Menager Foreign Advertising, Merguette Building, Chicago. (Long Distance Central 2619.”) elephone NEW YORK STEPHEN B. SMITH. 30 Tribunc Building NEW YORK CORRESPOND! C. CARLTON... - C. Herald Square A. Brentano, 31 Union Square: enue Hotel, and Hoffman House. STANDS: ews Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Hotel; Palmer House. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE. .. 140C G St., MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. N. W. BRANCH OFFIC until S5 300 Montgomery, corner of Clay, oren Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 652 ister, : pen until 9:30 o’clogk. 615 Larkin, open unul clock. 41 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 corner Sixteenth, open until ® o'clock. 1096 Va- open until 9 o'clock. o'clock. NW. until 9 o clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 corner Twenty-second end Kentucky, open 2200 Fillmore, open until 9 p. m. SILVER AND TRADE. REVIEW of cur foreign and domestic trade A in the period of the greatest decline in silver es the error in argument made by free silver, that prosperity depends zining the price of that metal by entirely sus rtificial forced a Our trade at home and abroad has gone on ex- the condition of the silver When it was pointed out that legalizing free f t the market artificial ratio of 16 to 1 would 1 of our gold, which would fiow to the free silver men answered that that would hasing power of Europe and so This argu-"| on the Atlantic seaboard almost the t free silver found in that part of the n t ible, to many, that if e our gold, to the increase of e our foreign trade.- their store, they would want to buy with that increase, nd we had for sale everything that they wanted. At he time it was declared that this was the only way to revive and ncrease our foreign trade. and the state- influential with all except those who knew t contravened the principles of commerce. t After the overthrow of free silver and the enactment | of the g andard law we began the rapid accumu- lation of gc and now have the largest store of that metal in the world. Of last year's surplus stock, above the needs of oinage and the arts, we took in more than any other ration, and now have on hand e greatest stock =ver held by one nation in the world’s history Not only is it actually in volume the greatest, t it is the greatest relatively to ths rest of the world, and in its percentage of the whole stock of the world. and in its volume per cap- | ita of our own people. Therefore, according to the | freg silver argument our foreign trade should and the constant accession to our gold stock and the steady fall in silver should leave us no occu- pation but counting cut gold bricks and coin, hav- ing nothing else to do. The fact, however, is exactly the opposite. With the largest stock of gold in the world we have con- currently the largest foreign trade in our history, and a more rapid increase in our export of manufactures than we or any other nation ever had in an equal period Our manufactured exports have in- creased 2 thi be in straits, me 00 per cent in ten years, and are greater ) than last. The increase in domestic con- sumption is in the same time almost incalculable. Especiall 1 the metzls, the home demand has lim- ited our power to supply the foreign demand. Had it not been for this our export increase would be still larger We have a wally. had to import $13.000.000 increase in iron and steel to supplement the home supply of the home consumption. It is apparent, then. that our increased stock of gold has stimulated home consumption, with no impair- ment but rather an increase in the consuming ca- pacity of our foreign customers. And all the while silver has been going down and figures as no factor | at all either in the condition of foreign or domestic trade. He would be a bold politician indeed who in the present situation would repeat the prophecies of 896, stern De crats are busily engaged in consoling themselves over the defeat in the Congressional elec- | tions. One of them says: “If the Democrats had been successful all the industrial reverses of the next two years would have been laid to that entirely pow- crless pplitical party. The fact that prices in the stock market declined on the day after the election | would have been counted a result of Democratic siccess.” Ti appears then the Democrats would rather be defeated than accept responsibility, and of course the country is willing to accommodate them. President Baer of the coal combine, who won fame by declaring he would never recognize labor unions and that the ccal mines were intrusted to him and his colleagues by. Providence, was spotted in the election booth and the spotters say he voted a straight Democratic ticket. Explanations are now in order. A movement has been started in the Southern States to get Thanksgiving day changed from No- vember to Febrwary, as that would suit them better and give turkeys a longer time to get fat. Oom Paul's autobiography starts out by telling how he Killed 2 lion when be was fourteen years old, so it cught to be dedicated to Roosevelt | statutes ertirely. | ing support in the West, | changes in Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michi- | abdicate some of its power. polisy on the eve of the Presidential election ot 1904, but the Republican party has never been cowardly in its courss upon any subject, and as it is now domi- nated by revisionists that work will not be done piecemeal, by amendment haphazard, but by an en- tirely new bill that will wipe the Dingley bill off the Secretary Shaw has said that the piecemeal plan is open to such objections as to be impracticable, and that the only way to re- continually vise the tariff is by making the work comprehensive | and all inclusive. Only in this way can any judg- ment be formed of the effect of a new bill upon -the revenues and the industries of the country. Such a method aiso enables the treatment of protection as a of expediency, and all comprehensive revisicn must of necessity be upon protective lines. principle, and not a policy There is great political advantage in getting the issue out of the way before 1904. The West having ! determined that it shall be done, the policy wil! be no ! longer in the air, to be taken advantage of by the free-traders, but the new tariff will be in operation be- fore Presidential nominations are made, and its ef- fect will depend upon the wisdom and foresight of the revisers. That the West has forced revision is significant of the agricultural sentiment. The West originally ac- cepted protection in the Morrill tariff as a war rev- enue measure, and grew but slowly into the convic- tion that it is advisable as a permanent policy. The iree trade fight made by Mr. Cleveland found grow- as shown by the party gan. Though public sentiment in all those States is | modified by the presence of large manufacturing in- terests, still agricultare, though unorganized, domi- nates political sentiment and has been widely im- pressed by the belief at some points a protective tariff is a shelter to trusts. Under the leadership of Governor Cummins of Iowa this belief was made the foremost declaration in the Iowa Republican plat- form, and that expression has now been accepted as the standard of Republican faith. It is as well to ad- mit that it powerfully jnfluenced tlie return to the | Republican fold of the States that were the free sil- ver strongholds, and there is nothing to be done but | accept the issue as made, as carried at the polls, and | to be worked to a conclusion by a Republican Con- gress. Other incidents of the new Congressional leadership of the party may be expected. In the House “the | floor” will be freer than it has been under the rule of Grosvenor of Ohio. The Committee on Rules will The. insistent opposition | to the rule of that committee that has been led by Hepburn of Towa, and that was so incisively voiced last session by Cushman of Washington, has done effective work. and the House will be the scene of more freedom in proposing legislation and discussing it than has been the case since the Speakership of Carlisle, for the Reed rules were only inconsiderably | modified under Mr. Crisp, and the Democrats found themselves unable to condemn “the czar” and his | works, as they had so hotly promised. From this time on the industries of the country | dependent on protection will be paying close attention to the schedules which interest them. It may be ex- pected that the spirit of all the reciprocity treaties, concluded and pending, will seek incorporation in the revised tariff, and that the Cuban demands will be | presented, to be made an integral part of the new bill instead of seeking satisfaction in a treaty or a separate measure of any kind. All of this prospect implies a time of great Republican activity, and in- vests the next twelve months with a very vivid in- terest. for what may be done with the tariff in that period may well determine the Republican future. —— ,An Irish editor who advised the people who read his paper to keep within the law was sentenced the other day to four months’ imprisonment at hard la- bor for intimidation and conspiracy. It is reasonable to presume that the gentleman would have been rec- ommended to knighthood if he had incited his read- ers to riot. F here follows the conclusion that nothing fails o completely as fajlure. When a man is down everybody heips to keep him- down. David Bennett Hill of New York is undergoing that sort of expe- DENOUNCING HILL. ROM the rule “Nothing succeeds like success” | rience. So long as there was in the Democratic camp an expectation that he would carry the State for Coler Mr. Hill had compliments and support from his party. Now that Coler has been beaten there arises a cry against the man who nominated him. Mr. Hill is de- clared to be a Jonah, and the Democratic crew are incited to throw him overboard. The attack comes irom all quarters. That the con- | servative Democratic papers of New York City should assail him and attribute to him the defeat of the party is perhaps natural, for the city does not like Hill, and conservatism abhors his demand for governmental ownership and operation of anthracite mines. It was not expected, however, that the Democratic press of the upper part of the State would attack him, or that the radical wing of the party would join in the as- sault, and yet from those quarters as well as from the cpposite ones comes the cry of “Jonah,” The Albany Argus may be taken as fairly rep- resentative of the Democracy ‘of Northern New York. It speaks, at any rate, for a considerable fac- tion of the patty, and from its utterances we may es- | timate the trend of sentiment among the Democrats of that section of the State. It is one of the foremost in denouncing Hill and condemning his policy in the recent campaign. It says: “His evil genius pictured all his enemies—and he realized their name was le- gion—buried beneath the Coler landslide. Not a sin- gle Democrat throughout the State knew the plan or methods of his campaign. So extraordinary were its | developments that it excited comment, astonishment, dismay even. Misfortune after misfortune has be- fallen the Democratic party, year after year, for a full decade—to be candidly specific, ever since Hill's cap- taincy. In justice to our own reputation for party 1 fealty, in justice to the Democratic party of the State, ! we must, if we hope & affairs of the nation, b\‘“ State leader.” 3 The severe condemnation thus pronounced upon him by the conservatives of his own State has its counterpart in the denunciations shouted at him from the radicals of the West. In the curtent number of the Commoner Mr. Bryan joins in the attack and re- minds his readers that Hill bolted the party ticket in 1806. He savs: “There is not a single issue upon which the party could make a fight under Mr. Hill's leadership. He made a record in the Senate which would be a millstone round his neck in any race be- fore the people.” v It would appear that Mr. Hill might as well follow the example of Croker and retire to a farm in merry England, titere to forget the ingratitude of Democrats | in the society of Dukes and Earls. Within the Demo- | cratic camp he now receives mo - other recognition than that accorded to a scapegoat, and it is time for him to seck friends elsewhere for the comfort of his | declining years. 4 e e e The college b and girls of the State University of Colorado went on strike a short time ago, but the | dispatches thus far have indicated nothing which sug- gests that the strikers have organized | others from taking their places ain to participate in the of David B. Hill as our MUNICIPAL TRADING. MONG the British people there has been or- H A ganized an association known as “thé Indus- | trial Freedom League,” whose object is “to i iree private enterprise from undue interference and | rate-aided competition.” By rate-aided competition is meant the competition of municipalities. The or- ganization of the league,is due to the fact that British municipalities are now engaging in so many kinds of business enterprises under the name of “public utili- ties” that private business and enterprise have been injuriously affected. The trades injured by municipal competition are are now being taken over by cities. All businesses | are more or less injured by reason of the fact that when a municipal business enterprise is not successful and all trades and enterprises are taxed to maintain the unprofitable municipal venture. While it has been but a comparatively short time since municipal management of business enterprises has been undertaken in Great Britain on an extensive scale, the evil wrought is already large. At a recent meeting of the league certain facts were presented which will surprise those people in the United States utilitieg as a thing to be desired. The first evil resulting from municipal enterprises |is the increase of municipal indebtedness incurred in undertaking them. Mr. Henderson, M. P., who pre- | sided at the meeting, said that in the twenty years from 1878 to 1898 the imperial Government paid off £130,000,000 of the national debt, but during the same period municipalities increased their debts by £130,- | 000,000, and a very large portion of the amount has been invested in trading concerns. Going into de- | tails of some of the representative cities engaged in operating gas, electric light and power plants and tramways, he said: “Huddersfield has borrowed nearly 17 _per cent of the total capitalized ratable value of the whole property in the town, and Man- chester over 16 per cent. The borrowings of other towns are in proportion. What this really amounts to is that a property-owner who had property worth £1000 cannot now value it at'more than £830, because it is mortgaged in favor of municipal indebtedness for £170. * * * The mortgage upon property repre- sented by the local debt comes to a large extent from the adventurous trading spirit that has animated municipalities of recent years.” Another evil result of the municipal enterprises is the injury done to municipal politics by the effort of the city officials to make a good showing for the municipal work even when deception has to be re- sorted to. Lord/Claud Hamilton, one of the speak- ers at the meeting, said: “I am connected with a municipality where they entered upon the municipal electric lighting trade. In the first year a consider- able loss appeared, and at the second year's working, when there was another Joss, at one of the meetings of the Town Council a gentleman seriously proposed that in order that the electric lighting trade might not look so bad as it was in the eyes of those from whom they might wish to borrow money in the fu- ture the loss should be debited not to the electric lighting plant but to another municipal account, and the matter was seriously discussed for a considerable time and was lost by only a small majority.” Lord Avebury said: “The Government appointed a joint committee of the two houses of Parliament, who commenced an inquiry into the results of mu- nicipal ownership, but the supporters of municipal | trading were afraid of the light and have prevented the continuation of the inquiry.” He added: “Muni- cipal trading is a great check to private enterprise. To it is attributable the backward state of electrical undertakings in this country. Why does English cap- ital go to build railways in China and Argentina while nothing of the kind occurs in India? It is because the Government, by taking over the Indian railways, has entirely stcpped private enterprise in that direc- tion.” Such are some of the evils which have resulted in Great Britain from the municipal undertaking of business enterprises. Debts have been increased, private property has been heavily mortgaged by pub- lic indebtedness, politics corrupted and private en- terprise checked. The lesson is worth heeding in San Francisco. ——————— The vigor with which our European friends char- acterize one ancther was exemplified the other day when several Austrian statesmen, constituting a bunch of violence, called their German associates pigs. Their unkindness would have been modified, perhaps, if they had remembered that it is always best to laugh at oneself before laughing at another. If thi& doesn’t incite justice it may invite silence. New York Democrats are figuring out that Tam- many “made good” by giving Coler a huge majority in the city, but Hill failed to swing the State De- mocracy, and now they say Hill ought to follow Croker to England and quit meddling and muddling in politics. X Having now a good-sized famine on our hands in the Philippines we can set ourselves up along with Great Britain and Russia as one of the three great famine powers of the world and defy any one to ques- tion that we are truly imperial. Uncle Sam has won another distinct advantage over the English in the frozen north. Several Americans, in order to hold office in the Yukon country, have ! become naturalized British subjects. to prevent not>confined to those engaged in enterprises which support is given to it with money raised by taxation, i who have looked upon municipal control of public | OVEMBER 18, 1902 GRANT STATUE WILL BE A HANDSOME MEMORIA L X -+ MODELS OF GRANT STATUE . TO LOWER PICTURE IS FROM DESIGN OF HENRY M. SHRADY AND UPPER FROM THAT OF CHARLES H. NIEHAUS. BE ERECTED, IN WASHINGTON. ‘ national capital. marble, these combined having a height is not a triumphal entry in the sense of . Shrady’'s model was itect. fled Grant. PERSONAL MENTIONb J. B. Reed, a Woodland attorney, is at the Russ. J. Martin Barney of Dutch Flat is at the Palace. The Rev. Father P. J. Fisher of Santa Cruz is at the Lick. R. M. Green, a mining man of Oroville, is a guest at the Lick. W. P. Hammond, a mining man of Oroville, is at the Palace. Barney Galloway, a merchant of nut Grove, is at the Russ. A. M. Wood, a hotel man of Middle- town, is a guest at the Russ. J. S. Hackley, a distiller of Louisville, Ky., is registered at the California. Captain H. Z. Osborne, United States Marshal of Southern California, is at the Palace. ‘Warren Conlin, a popular medical stu- dent and son of James Conlin, the roof- ing contractor, is confined in St. Mary's Hospital, having been attacked by ap- pendicitis. James Pinkerton and W. E. Heindze of Lamdon are at the Palace. They have just returned from Australia, where they assisted in the laying of the Pacific cable connecting Vancouver, B. C., with Aus- tralia. —_—ee————— Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—W. A. Dobb, at the Manhat- tan; Mrs. R. Fitch, at the Marlborough; J. M. Shackleford and G. Baker, at the Bartholdi; P. 8. Baker and W. Baker, at the Park® Avenue; W. Bradley and G. W. Buffington, at the Westminster; F. A. Garrick, at the Everett; Dr. P. H. Flood and wife, at the Herald Square; J. B. Fox and wife, at'the Grand; J. B. Kidd, at the Albert; M. Martin and wife, at the Astor; N. M. Riddle, at the Normandie, From Los Angeles—W. H. Heber, at the @ it @ Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend’ —_—————————— Genuine Eyeglasses 20c to 50c at 81 4th, front of barber, grocery. Try me. . ——il e Townsend’s California g! candles, 50c a pound, in ar ic fire-etened boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market st., Palace Hotel building. * fruit and ———— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by Press fornia street. Telephone Main 10| will stand in the center of a plaza of granite or marble, feet from end to end. The figures will be inclosed by an ornamental marble bal- ustrade, at either corner of which will be a life size bronze lion in sitting posture. The horse and rider. will be of bronze, two and a half times life size. The model submitted by Niehaus shows General Grant entering Washington after an important Civil War victory mounted on a clean cut voung horse. Wal-|* HE committee 2ppointed by the Government to select a sculptor for the $250,000 statue of General U. S. Grant will soon reach a decision. contest was narrowed down to two by a previous competition, and it is between the work of Charles Henry Niehaus and Henry Merwin Shrady, both of New York, that the choice will be made. When Congress appropriated $250,000 for the Grant statue it surpassed all its previous records in that line of apppropriation. ‘Washington Monument, Its cost will exceed that of any public memorial at the The exact site for the statue is not yet decided, but it will probably be in the Botanical Garden, just west of the Capitol, where also will be the statues of Sherman and Sheridan. The equestrian figure surmounts a pedestal to be constructed of bronze or The With the exception of the of more than thirty feet. The statue measuring some 276 It a personal triumph. The general has his head uncovered and by his side march two soldiers covered with the stains of the battle and the march. One of them bears .the flag, branch which he has broken from some tree along the roadside. thade in conjunction with Edwin Pierce Casey as arch- The former’s conception comprises three distinct' groups., two of them of fierce 'movement and eager activity, both presided over by the calm, unruf- At one side there is a dash of cavalry, at the other a battery of artillery rushing into action. Between these intense groups and towering above them is Grant, sitting firmly and with soldierly dignity astride a spirited horse. The figure of the great commander is the only quiet one in all the stirring scene. the other a laurel Gilsey; F. W. Marcher, at the Herald Square; T. L. Watson, at the Rossmore. From Santa Clara—W. J. Fosgate, at the Grand; Mrs. I. Marshall, at the Cosmo- politan. I i of Stockton as their guest. | ATTEND PLAY AS THE GUESTS OF MRS. MARTIN \ / Mrs. Eleanor Martin quity eclipsed her 1 past successes as hostess |last evening with one of the most delightful theater parties given in this city forimany a day Fifty guests were invited, apd the par was given complimentary to| Miss Emi Wilson, one of this season's|debutantes. Eight loges and ten additional seats at the Columbia were occupled. After the play an elaborate supper was enjoyed at the Palace Hotel, where deco- rations, ckiefly of foliage, werd arranged in excellent taste. Those present were: tin, Mrs. Walter 8. Maciin, Mrs. J. Dow- ney Harvey, Mrs. Russell Wilson, Miss Emily Wilson, Miss Allen, Miss Rut len, Miss Gertrude Josslyn, Miss Vi Buckley, Miss King, Miss Hazel K Miss Maud Bourn Howell, Miss Evans, Eells, Miss Lutie Colller, Jolliffe, Miss Daisy Parrott, Miss Florence Cole, Miss Spreckels, Miss Edith Hunt- ington, Miss Florence Bailey, Walter S. Martin, Edward M. Greenway, Redick McKee Duperu, Frank Goad, Eugene de Coulon, Athole McBean, Sidney Salisbury, Frank King, Percy King, Harry Stetson, Frank Grace, Edward Tobin, Joseph To- bin, M=. Rathbone, John D. Spreckels Jr., Clarence Follis, Knox Maddox, Mountford Wilson, Mr. Simpkins, Mr. Carolan, George Field,- Captain Johnston, Mr. Glass, Harry Scott and Bruce Cornwall . . Mrs. Eleanor Mar- The luxurious apartments of Mrs. Al- phonse Wigmore at the C lifornia Hotel were thronged with exquisitely gowned callers yesterday afternoon, the occasion being Mrs. Wigmore's first at home for | her husband's sister, Miss Wigmore of Los Angeles, who will spend the winter in San Francisco. Cut fowers were ar- ranged everywhere with artistic effect. The refreshment room was dome in pink carnations and cosmos and in the recep- tion room were chrysanthemums of all and violets. colors, carnations, roses Those who assisted in Miss Marion Huntington, | Redington, Miss Ardella Mills, Miss Ber- nie Drown and Miss Nora McNeill TR A Soclal day was thoroughly enjoyed by the Daughters of California Pioneers at their clubrooms yestercay afternoon. A delightful programme was rendered, con- sisting of a clever and interesting paper on ‘“Uncut Leaves” by Mrs. Horace Wil- son, two vocal solos by Miss May Shan- non and two.violin solos by Miss Rose Lane. The rooms were prettily decorated and the affair was largely attended. An informal receptien followed the pro- gramme and dainty refreshments were served. . . Dr. Arnold Genthe is paying a short visit to Charles Rollo Peters, the artist, at his home in Monterey. P Mr. and Mrs. Raoul Duval have arrived in New York en route to San Francisco and will . visit this city within a few weeks. Mrs. Horace Blanchard Chase has post- poned her trip East for the present - e The marriage of Miss Frances Whipple Congdon to Edwin Whipple Jerauld at Palo Alto on Saturday was an event of especial interest in college circies, the couple having been students at Stanford last year. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Sadoc Tobin have taken apartments at the St. Dunstan for the winter. & Miss Geraldine Bonner will winter in New York. A Mrs. A. N. Towne and Mrs. Clinton E. | Worden were guests of honor at a lunch- eon given in Sacramento on Thursday by Mrs. Frank Miller. .« . Among the guests at Miss Jacqueline Moore's dinner for Miss Katherine Dillon a few days ago were: Mr. and Mrs. A. A, | Moore, Miss Ethel Moore, Stanley Moore, Miss Patricia Cosgrave, Miss Millicent Cosgrave, Miss Margaret Bender, Dr. Arnold Genthe_Fred Greenwood, Horace Miller, George Sweet, U. S. N., and Miss Katherine Herrin. Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Hickman of Sausa- O | lito are spending the winter months at the Edgemere, Bush street, with Miss Elliott The California branch of the Associa- tion of Collegiate Alumnae will meet at Sorosis Hall, 1620 California street, No- vember 22. After the luncheon at 12 and the business meeting at 2 an interesting programme will be given. There will be reports of the national association’s meet- ing in Washington by the California dele- gates, Miss Chandler and Mrs. M. M. Crawford. Philanthropy as a profession for women will be discussed by Dr. Mary Roberts Smith. Dr. R. Leona Ash will talk of her medical experiences abroad, and Dr. Jessie Peixotto will give her im- pressions of Russian women. . . 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