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...away with if:? What is the fine outward air of indifference (we are still looking at the matter from the point of view of the ordinary observer) but a proof of aristocracy either of descent or of mind? If a college education is worth the salt that the graduate has eaten in getting it, it has taught him to be himself, and not to ape somebody else. The in different man who goes out on the common ways of life, saying to himself "Go to, I will not be in different," is likely to make an as of himself...
Oliver Wendell Holme's once said, "Because I like a pinch of salt in my soup is no reason I wish to be immersed in brine", he might well have been speaking of the modern labor union. There have been workingmen's associations in America since the beginning of the industrial era long before the Civil War. That they have earned an important place in our social organization is unquestioned; the abolition of chattel slavery in the South found its parallel in the relief of wage slavery in the North. But their quest for wholesome working conditions and a living...
...autocracy of labor,--the open shop. The suppression of individual bargaining would be of inestimable value to the unions; armed with a monopoly of production they would be in a better position to pry further into our national life. But the people at large have had their pinch of salt; they will not tolerate the brine...
Since 1898 the country has remained financially solvent because a commission of delegates from the three Powers has had charge of the external debt; it handled the revenues from salt, petroleum and other monopolies, and from several duties. This financial support will go with Constantine's arrival, and without the occurrence of a miracle the King will never succeed in keeping Greece from bankruptcy--a task that has been difficult enough for three European nations...
This only brings us to Salt Lake City on Sept. 23. Such has been the evolution of the literary style of our Presidents in their official utterances. --Boston Transcript...