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...promoters, industrial adventurers and bankers. In this service higher fees can be charged than in service before the courts. It is commonly the junior members of large legal firms who argue cases in court. The passing of the judge, the disappearance of the great court-room advocates, the popular distrust of courts, and the disposition of rich business men and corporations to avoid litigation and "beat the law" so far as they safely can, and even farther have constituted a vicious circle of evil tendencies in both theory and practice, the effects of which on public opinion in the United...
...inherently unjust or only occasionally and accidentally just. Might, despite the proverb, is not right. The traditional slogan, "In time of peace prepare for war" is a relic of mediaeval days of incessant warfare, and has no meaning today. There is no surer way to make other nations distrust us than to distrust them. Let us trust and be trusted...
...music like a Sir Kay; to him all church choirs not consecrated to the old plain chant are "merely formed for the use of tenors and fat women." Wagner, he says, "dissatisfied with the figure of the historic Christ, transformed him into a German prig with a nasty-minded distrust of feminity". That's Parsifal! There's plenty of go in the Monthly still. Mr. Pichel in his helpful "note" on Strindberg,--which, by the way, was written before Strindberg's death--does not find it necessary to be so vehement. That "note" suggests the query, whether...
...constitutional fathers made a system of governmental checks and balances and provided a system of selection of officials which shows their distrust of the people. The elaborate processes by which officials were chosen and the survival of parties after their purpose had been accomplished, these together with the spoils system caused the growth of boss rule. The direct primary, the referendum, the recall and the initiative are all successive steps in eliminating the boss from politics and bringing the government under direct control of the people. Likewise the commission form of city government does away with machinery and increases efficiency...
Born about 1858 in Minnesota, the home of the Sioux, Dr. Eastman spent the first fifteen years of his life with his native tribe, where he never heard a word of English, and was taught to hate and distrust the white men. Later he went to school and college. He attended Beloit and Knox Colleges and is a graduate of Dartmouth and of Boston University. For the last fifteen years he has been a physician, a missionary, and a writer, and is a speaker of wide experience. Among his books are "Indian Boyhood," and "Red Hunters and Animal People...