band brought to the contract as pure a sentiment and as high a moral development as were brought by the woman.-New York Journal. SOME IMPRESSIONS While I was deeply impressed with the tremendous energy of the Americans, I fear their too rapid progress will experience a serious and disastrous setback in the very near future. They do too much business on borrowed capital; there are too many weak banks there; and a crash at the first untoward event is inevitable.-Count Matsukala, Japanese Minister of Finance. America has outgrown the barbarism that argument can be answered by personal abuse less than any civilized country.-Li Hung Chang. The greatest of Japanese philosophers says: "Humanity lives under many kinds of despotism, but the greatest of all is 'the will of the majority."" For my part, when I feel the hand of power lie heavy on my brow, I care but little who oppresses me; and I am not more disposed to pass beneath the yoke because it is held out to me by the arms of a million men.-De Tocqueville. It is a great advantage when tyranny has one head and one neck. What axe can relieve us from the tyranny of the majority?-Lord Wemyss. Man has all the vices but not all the virtues of the beast.-R. G. Ingersoll. The most important step Europe can take in the 20th century will be the partition of the American Republics by the powers of Europe. Americans cannot govern; all Americans confess it when they go to Europe, and all Europeans notice it when they go to the New World. -G. B. Shaw. For out of the strife which woman Is passing through to-day A man that is more than human A man in whose pure spirit No dross of self will lurk, A man who is strong to cope with wrong, A man who is proud to work. I know he is coming, coming Though I hear no martial drumming, And see no flags that wave. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox. To begin with, in medias res, are men fair to women? The laws, which are made by men, the usages-everything is calculated to cause men to reduce to a minimum the qualities, the intelligence and the influence of women. For instance, let a woman make a reputation in art or literature, and men begin to smile and shrug their shoulders; they dispute her talent. I maintain, without much fear for contradiction, that a woman, in order to succeed in a profession, must have ten times more talent than a man, inasmuch as a man will have friends and comrades to help him, and a woman only difficulties put in her way by man to surmount. Man receives encouragements from all sides. Why should not women get all this. Why, simply because man, being both "verdict" and "execution," has kept everything for himself. Women, perhaps unfortunately, cannot all be intended to be mothers or spend their lives mending socks and attending to Spring housecleaning; such women, who have received a high education, may not feel inclined to be shopgirls, lady's maids or cooks; if they feel that they have talent and can paint or write successfully, every man ought to give them a helping hand.Max O'Rell in New York American. "To-day exactly 13 men control the industrial and commercial life of America, and they aim at world conquest. Every citizen in the Republic is their subject and the public is powerless against their methods. They, the 13, also seek now to control the entire world."-New York Herald, January 25, 1903. "To-day a dozen colossal fortunes own every line of transportation by lake or sea, every gold mine and every coal field, every railroad, and every Legislature and Electorate in America. It is the height of stupidity to say they will soon own all if not placed under control-they already own all, as any intelligent European sees. Such power is greater than any separate State in America-it is greater than any National Government upon the Western Hemisphere. My heart quakes at the realization that Europe wastes its time fortifying against such puny enemies as socialism and anarchism, and remains in ignorance that this monster stalks towards its gate intending to devour it too!"– M. Freedland. Commissioner Williams shows that immigration from Germany, Great Britain and the Scandinavian countries is to-day almost as insignificant as was twenty years ago the immigration from Italy and Austria. "Americans Dr. Alexander P. Doyle says: live such rapid lives and set such a fast pace that to keep their wornout nerves at concert pitch they use strong alcoholic drink. Neurasthenia is a peculiarly American disease. The life in this country conduces to exhausted nervous systems, which require a different kind of beverage than the light wines and beer suitable to the placid life of the average European. Here men drink liquids fifty, sixty and seventy per cent. alcoholic. |