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...election in the City of New York, with all the newspapers against him, a gentleman was elected Mayor, and that shows the influence of these papers with the public. If they would get in touch with human nature and understand the ordinary people, instead of being always bowing to wealth, I think they would gain very much for their editorial policies. As I said before, I compliment the men in the gallery here who do give the news correctly, which appears in The New York Times correctly...
...learned how to find the North Pole with or without a compass and how to crack rocks which should prove valuable if I ever get lost in the Arctic Ocean or go to jail. A Scout Club could go further and teach men semaphore so that they could understand what the little man in the bright red sweater does during football games...
Replied Benito, his eyes rolling with fury: "This is a point which I want you to understand. I have never asked myself that question be cause a universal conception of democracy does not exist. There exist and have existed, States which glorify themselves with the title democratic, but every one of them ? Athens, Venice, Britain, the United States ? have, in their history, novelties so absolutely distinct that nothing has ever seemed to me so grotesque as an attempt to reduce them to a common measure...
...Republican Tariff. "Let's see what the people are to get tax-free under your bill. First, you are going to let bones come in free, and Brazilian pebbles. Then, bristles, if they are crude, cuttlefish bone, dry insects, stems of vegetables and flowers?I don't understand how they escaped. Birds' eggs and fish eggs, free. Fish skins, fossils, dragon's blood. Horsehair, hoops, old junk. If it's new junk it can't come in free. I don't know whether you let loaded dice in free, but you are giving the American people loaded dice in this...
Congress would like to adjourn on June 7, before the political conventions?so the press was given to understand. But there are obstacles. Very little has been done. The Senate, especially, feels that there may be much for it to do in the meantime. If the session continues through the political conventions there is no telling when it may end?perhaps not until it is time for the members to go home and mend their fences before election...