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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: from our lethargy--it is Lexington; farmers with guns in their
hands fighting for Liberty. Is our State of California the only
one that has its ancient and hereditary foe? Are there no other
Trusts between the oceans than this of the Pacific and
Southwestern Railroad? Ask yourselves, you of the Middle West,
ask yourselves, you of the North, ask yourselves, you of the
East, ask yourselves, you of the South--ask yourselves, every
citizen of every State from Maine to Mexico, from the Dakotas to
the Carolinas, have you not the monster in your boundaries? If
it is not a Trust of transportation, it is only another head of
the same Hydra. Is not our death struggle typical? Is it not
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