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"After all is said, business is but a privilege. Ours is not a right but a franchise. . . . If this be so, then the Government, representing both the people who gain most by our present system and those who suffer most, has the right and duty to control and organize this...
From Vienna, where he had read of the Congressional appropriation financing U. S. Peace Commissioners for winding up the Spanish-American War, Mark Twain wisecracked in 1899: "At a public function in a European court all foreign representatives except ours wear clothes which in some way distinguish them. . . . But our...
¶Strongly condemned by resolution, homework for school children in the United Kingdom after its rigors had been movingly conjured up by a Labor M. P. who climaxed, "So I asked my eldest boy about this homework only this morning and he said, 'Father, the House of Commons should...
"Ahem," the Dolo went on, "yes, my friends, 'tis three score years and may I remind you this old world of ours has changed in many ways since that time. The motor has replaced the horse..."
"...We have witnessed a great war...our sense of values has changed considerably--ours is the mechanical age and the era of mass education--idealists are tolerated but not believed (and here he looked towards the four-poster where the Vagabond was sitting) but, my friends I am happy to...