The Bookman, 第 20 卷

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Dodd, Mead and Company, 1905
 

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第 444 頁 - Democratic party is pledged to revise the tariff in a spirit of fairness to all interests. But in making reduction in taxes, it is not proposed to injure any domestic industries, but rather to promote their healthy growth.
第 531 頁 - The selection and retention of subordinates in Government employment should depend upon their ascertained fitness and the value of their work, and they should be neither expected nor allowed to do questionable party service. The interests of the people will be better protected ; the estimate of public labor and duty will be immensely improved ; public employment will be open to all who can demonstrate their fitness to enter it...
第 535 頁 - Every month two millions of gold in the public Treasury are paid out for two millions or more of silver dollars, to be added to the idle mass already accumulated. If continued long enough...
第 24 頁 - LEONAINIE— Angels named her; And they took the light Of the laughing stars and framed her In a smile of white ; And they made her hair of gloomy Midnight, and her eyes of bloomy Moonshine, and they brought her to me In the solemn night.— In a solemn night of summer, When my heart of gloom Blossomed up to greet the comer Like a rose in bloom ; All forebodings that distressed me I forgot as Joy caressed me — (.Lying Joy ! that caught and pressed me In the arms of doom !) Only spake the little...
第 537 頁 - I consider them in no proper sense as upon the files of the Department, but as deposited there for my convenience, remaining still completely under my control. I suppose if I desired to take them into my custody I might do so with entire propriety, and if I saw fit to destroy them no one could complain.
第 445 頁 - ... taxes on fewer imported articles, bearing heaviest on articles of luxury, and bearing lightest on articles of necessity. We, therefore, denounce the abuses of the existing tariff; and, subject to the preceding limitations, we demand that Federal taxation shall be exclusively for public purposes, and shall not exceed the needs of the Government, economically administered.
第 117 頁 - Should the tempest of war overshadow our land, Its bolts could ne'er rend Freedom's temple asunder ; For, unmoved, at its portal would WASHINGTON stand, And repulse,. with his breast, the assaults of the thunder ! His sword, from the sleep Of its scabbard would leap, And conduct, with its point, every flash to the deep...
第 531 頁 - ... enacted. I regard myself pledged to this because my conception of true Democratic faith and public duty requires that this and all other statutes should be in good faith and without evasion enforced, and because in many utterances made prior to my election as President, approved by the party to which I belong, and which I have no disposition to disclaim, I have in effect promised the people that this should be done.
第 225 頁 - Ah, sweet Content! where is thy mild abode ? Is it with shepherds, and light-hearted swains. Which sing upon the downs, and pipe abroad. Tending their flocks and cattle on the plains ? Ah, sweet Content ! where dost thou safely rest ? In Heaven, with Angels...
第 447 頁 - The gentleman took it seriously, and it has given his strut additional pomposity. The resemblance is great. It is striking. Hyperion to a satyr, Thersites to Hercules, mud to marble, dunghill to diamond, a singed cat to a Bengal tiger, a whining puppy to a roaring lion. Shade of the mighty Davis, forgive the almost profanation of that jocose satire ! The Speaker.

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