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...President alone can make actual changes in rates, and might disregard the Commission's recommendations. But the fact remains that he has greatly enlarged his powers, however he may choose to exercise them. He may make changes to remedy only the obvious defects of the law as they develop in practice. His friends say this is his intention. But he, or some later President, out of sympathy with the law, might choose to take the making of the tariff entirely into the hands of the Executive...
...shortage of labor, due principally to the laws restricting immigration. These laws as passed are the worst thing that ever happened to this country economically. There is a great abundance of labor on the other side of the water that would be glad to come over and develop our resources...
Practically all efforts to attack paresis hitherto have been frustrated because antisyphilitic drugs, usually mercury or arsenic compounds, cannot pass through the choroid plexus, a sort of fine filter at the base of the brain. The germs which reach the higher centers are free to develop and soon do permanent damage to the brain tissue...
...curious to know how it had been possible to develop such a volume of line advertising, quoting store items, as in newspapers in large cities. The President said that it was because the stores in Marion were in a position to command local trade, which, in the case of many towns, was drawn off to nearby cities. They had discovered the economic value of newspaper advertising...
...this dilution of the British-descended population merely necessitates greater efforts toward mutual understanding. Association must, in the future, develop the sympathy which has hitherto resulted from the ties of blood. And whatever regrets one may feel at the decrease in the proportion of Anglo-Saxon Americans should be diverted to efforts, such as Mrs. Davison's, to perpetuate Anglo-American unity...