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...take out her provisions Hallgertha sends a servant to steal from a neighbor, and when questioned by her husband replies it is not for men to concern themselves about the cooking. Gunnar strikes her and she says she'll not forget the blow. Gunnar is warned not to kill twice in the same lineage, but his cousin Mord treacherously causes him to kill the son of a father whom he has already killed. Gunnar is outlawed and refusing to leave Iceland is killed. His wife remembering the blow on the cheek refuses to help him. Kolskegg became captain...
...Mobs are dangerous instruments of justice.- [a] They destroy public and private property: Public Opinion, March 21; Am. Quar. Rev. vol. 17, pp. 209-231. (1835).- [b] They often kill officers of the law and other innocent citizens.- [c] They do not discriminate between guilty and innocent persons. Some of the Italians murdered were innocent, some had not even been tried in the courts: Public Opinion, Mar. 21.- [d] They often exact punishment far beyond the measure of the crime or the guilt...
...closely to restrict. The college may possibly think otherwise. If they deem it emphatically good, then let the H. A. A. strictly enforce it; if they think it bad and unworthy of the H. A. A., as we are forced to believe it, then let the H. A. A. kill...
...were constantly trying to force the committee to a report; they did not care whether the report were favorable or unfavorable, all they wanted was to get the bill before the House. The sound money men adopted a policy of delay, and have succeeded so well as to practically kill the bill for this session. But the silver men are all confident that free coinage legislation must come sooner or later. The members of the Boston delegation were sharply cross-examined by these men, some of whom are certainly very sincere in their beliefs...
...Some limitation is now imperative in our Senate because: a. The minority is trying to kill measures by delay and not by argument. 1. Using obstructive proceedings; Cong. Rec. 51st Cong., 2nd Sess., 1646 et ad lib.; and 2. Expressly approving of obstruction; Cong. Rec. 51st Cong. 2nd Sess., p, 1881. b. The amount of work to be done by the Senate is large and increasing...