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domestic peace in this State and in this nation, as well as

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the problem of peace abroad.

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I can only say to the representatives of the

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business community who rendered such a disservice to the

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principles upon which the Convention was founded and who

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violated the will of the Convention by the organised cam-

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paign to thwart that will once it had been expressed

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that I hope they will learn from history and I say this

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factually because in time after time when we have come down

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to the Legislature for legislation to eliminate injustices,

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the business community has been on the opposite side

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opposing, but now in communities where they are seeing

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what these practices have done and there is an old saying

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you can't keep an old fellow in a ditch without staying

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there to keep him down. The business community has come

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to us in Baltimore City through the urban coalition asking

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us to help them rebuild the inner cities because the

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practices which they have fostered have caused the great

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deterioration and loss.

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I only hope and only wish that more of them

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could have been at this Convention because I think they would