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7204. REFORM, Retrenchment and.—[continued].

The multiplication of
public offices, increase of expense beyond income,
growth and entailment of a public debt,
are indications soliciting the employment of
the pruning knife.—
To Spencer Roane. Washington ed. vii, 212. Ford ed., x, 188.
(M. 1821)