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...Commodities should be produced where they can be most cheaply, but granting that our woolen mills must be maintained, how much protection will afford equality of competition with European producers? (1) Free wool equalizes cost of raw materials. (2) Only other reason for protection is difference in cost of labor (not wages) and the bill more than covers this. (3) If he cannot then compete he should leave the business. Mr. Harter, Ohio. Mr. Warner, N. Y. Mr., Snodgrass, Tenn. Edward D. Page. Am. Cotton and Wool reporter...
...Sherwood Eddy's address before the Y. M. C. A. last night was, full of interesting ideas which brought the subject of foreign missions before the students in a new light. Doubtless his remarks will turn the thoughts of a good many men to a consideration of foreign missionary labor as their line of work for the future. There is great need today for educated young men in all kinds of missionary work. Home missionary work is much more liable to look out for itself, however, than labor of this kind abroad. There is a growing interest today among college...
...same trouble confronts us today under different aspects, in the struggle between labor and capital. The man with the measuring line comes with his same answer, the difficulty is insurmountable; it lies in human nature, but God is with the right and order will of necessity grow out of this perplexed struggle...
...Realist of the Ruskin type it is a tool of wood and iron, every fibre, every grain, every slightest characteristic of which, even the name branded in scarcely legible letters on the handle, must be painted with the most painful accuracy. For the Impressionist it is the symbol of labor, a mass of shadow against a twilight sky, suggesting peasant toil and suffering. Between these we must decide. We want neither a collection, a conglomeration of geology and botany, nor a vague, indefinite suggestion of a possible truth; it is something between the two which is the true representation...
...position, he turned it into an office of kindness and humanity. Many a poor student felt through him the very kindliest influence of the University. He made the position what it now is and yet without an avocation he would have been unable to carry on this constant wearing labor. After his work was done, the multitude satisfied, he went off to the woods, there to seek peace and rest among the birds, his constant companions and friends. Even the next day when he returned to work he carried some of the freshness and love of nature with...