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...basic principle of the capacity to pay is admitted-I am sure-by the practical mentality of the American people and is also accepted, as I have been given to understand, by the American Government...
...people of this Nation believe in their Constitution, but they do not understand the justice of Senate rules under which, at times, one senator exercises a power greater than the veto power granted by the Constitution to the President of the United States; under which, at times, one senator can render the Senate impotent, and under which secret legislative barter is encouraged, which not only modifies the due course of legislative processes, but legislation itself." Almost simultaneously with the making of Mr. Dawes' speech, appeared Senator Moses' "reply"-an article in The Saturday Evening Post. His remarks were...
When addressing a foreign government, custom and propriety demand that a foreign minister write it a note. But there are occasions when notes are ineffective. Then a foreign minister may address himself, say, to the public, talking loud enough so that the foreign government in question may understand...
Under this curse, pathetically enough, editors writhe in impotent anger. One can understand, therefore, the intense feeling with which an editor of The New York World sat down, last week, penned these words...
...least, representatives of each extreme might in this way be able more completely to understand what the other men get out of their extreme. It is just this understanding The Dartmouth advocates...