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Samuel Vauclain, president of the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia, created a sensation by a speech before the New Orleans Association of Commerce. He brought 500 business men to their feet cheering when he declared: " Samuel Gompers says dire things will happen if we have open shops. My God! Have any of you gentlemen ever seen Samuel Gompers? Will you tell me what there is to be afraid...
...radical and will probably not be in favor of Representative Frear's proposals, but it is feared that if any revenue bill reaches the floor of the House, at least some of the radical proposals might be attached to it by amendment. The same might happen on the floor of the Senate. So it is possible that no revenue bills, no matter how generally desirable, will be reported out of the Senate Finance Committe, or even of the House Ways and Means Committee-the two committees which handle revenue laws...
Similarly one can never be sure of what will happen, next in a detective play, but as it lasts only a few hours instead of a lifetime the risk is not so great. However, in the case of "Cornered", at the St. James, from which the above quotation is made, the venture is moderately successful...
...always have in the theatre that feeling of just waking up from a nightmare, with all the thrill of emotional participation and none of the consequent hazards. You can get the keenest satisfaction out of a mild taxicab flirtation in Anything Might Happen, with no anticipatory tremors at sound of the clicking meter. You can share the Parisian amours of the charming wife and somewhat less charming husband in The Love Habit with no fear for your ultimate respectability. You can listen to the sweet mutual nothings of Romeo and Juliet, and your amorous envy will be allayed by prescience...
Perhaps the question will occur to a few of these innocents abroad: "I wonder what an Englishman thinks about?", "I wonder what a Frenchman thinks about?" If it does, and they seek an answer, the impossible might happen--a few might return home with the avowed purpose of going into politics, and from that beginning attain the rarest of American titles, Statesman...