Word: shrunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commoner, founded by William Jennings Bryan 22 years ago, has suspended publication. Since the Great Commoner took up Chautauqua, the Cabinet and Florida, the circulation has steadily shrunk until the paper was scarcely read outside of Nebraska. It dwelt too much upon the past and had ceased to be the clarion call of political battle. Time was when every Democratic editor ill the land kept one eye on The Commoner, while the other guided...
...They formed a constantly growing abscess in the body of our nation which no amount of legislative surgery could drain, until at last the physicians clearly saw that the only cure lay in destroying the disease which fed it, in effectively limiting immigration. Since that time, the abscess has shrunk noticeably. The fresh supplies of labor, however, are no longer forthcoming and industry is suffering accordingly...