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An Associated Press despatch describe the / utterance of a Banners' Alliance meeting in / Kansas as consisting mostly of "the old-time / wail of distress."
Still Dives hath no peace. Broken his slumber, / His feasts are troubled, and his pleasures fail; / For still he hears from voices without number / The same old wail.