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By As long as Democracy, as an organlzod
party has any excuse tor ex- j
lstence or any mission to perform it
muBt cherish as its chief tenet rigid
and uncompromising opposition to
every form of special privilege in
government.
This since Jefferson's day has been
the essence of real democracy notwithstanding
that at some particular
time certain agencies or leaders
may have temporarily led or
forced .the party into strange paths.
The prostitution or emasculation
of this doctrine by the Democratic
party will mean its extinction while
Its intelligent advocacy and practical
application will do much to solv-i
the economic problems that vex society.
The evils of legislation designed
to aid or protect a class at the expense
of all have grown into most
alarming proportions and today the
entire commercial world is upset by
the conditions for which this form
of legislation, directly and indirectly,
is responsible and the manifold
schemes which are proposed to overcome
them. And as usual the Republican
party is acting the part of
the quack doctor in the presence of
disease. But to look to the Repub vdican
party for permanent or genuine
relief would be like looking to
Abdul Hamid for a Code of Brotherhood.
For nearly fifty years, if we eliminate
the -war prejudices, passionB
and misunderstandings which a perverse
and malign leadership has kept
alive, the stock in trade of the Republican
party lias been some form
of ppecial privilege.
First they would protect "infant
industries" but the time arrived
when the ipeople were demanding
that many of there alleged Infants
be permitted to walk alone and requested
to walk out of legislative
halls. The menace of the possibility
of certain of these monopolies
controlling the government, iustead
of the government controlling them
seems only recently to have taken
hold of popular Intelligence.
Next they would foster monopoly
in the guise of this same form of
legislation attractively labeled as
something to protect tne American
worklagman. But the workingman
has long since discovered that monopoly
is protected by staute while
his position is the law of supply
and demand and he is the victimif a
logic that doesn't work.
By their various forms of special
legislation abnormal economic and
commercial conditions are created;
business is first over-stimulated than
unnatural pniiHltlnno ?
panics and depressions ensue, and
then come endlesd agitations for
change and redress.
Will not the business men of the
country, who are looking to government
for subsidy or privilege, ever
grasp the cause and remedy for
these commercial upheavels? Thrtv
and the producers and consumers
generally are the victims of these
policies and disturbances and if
once they understand and demand
the Qiily rational solution, even the
most powerful interests could not
pervall against their righteous and
intelligent protest.
Today Manufacturers' Associations.
Chambers of Commerce, Common
Councils, Roards of Trade and
m other bodies from one end of the
country to the other are passing
resolutions calling upon the people,
the Congress and the various legislatures
to discontinue agitation and
legislation with respect to commercial
and corporate affairs generally.
They justly complain in their preambles
of the unfortunate business
oii.iiai.iuii, qui mey attribute the conditions
to,a large extent to agitations
rather than to the real cause
which the Republican party lias been
chleflest In creating; viz. Un whole
some, uneconomic, unscientific special
legislation. While sympathizing
fully with the purpose of those who
ardently seek a return of prosperity
this 'Magazine protest against the
sinister argument of these resolutions.
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The people have been persistently
taught that the Republican party is
the "advance agent of prosperity,"
that it could by the mere 'act. of
being and keeping in power open
the mills, if not the mints, and that
in Its train or wako is all that Is
good to have. Hut the people have
seen bank failures of appalling mag
a.nme ana a commercial depression
with endless ramifications of dlsnj- >r
attend the closing months a;:il Ine I
r passing of one Republican administration
and they behold another Republican
administration apparently ?
powerless to cope with the coinioer- <1
clal havoc that has been wrought. 1
The remedy for all this certainly I
cannot be found In a cessatlo i of 1
agitation. Neither can it befoe id in i
old-time patch-work privilege legls- i
lation. Business will revlvo In time t
no matter what Congress or Legis t
latures may do but if the same old c
methods of legislation obtain the r
sanve depressions and disorders ma t a
recur with more alarming frequen- t
cy. This certainly is the lesson a
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of experience and forms the Indictment
of intelligence against Republican
buncome.
Coincident with the resolutions alluded
to all over the United States
there appears a movement designed
to resist the increase of resentment
and.back of this movement appear
the very forces which have demanded
and which have profited by favoritism
in legislation and which
row insist that all agitations about
tho evils their methods have
wrought shall cease.
Various kinds of special legislation
for facored industries are enacted,
until monopolies are created and fostered,
individual business enterprise
is menanced, both the producer atvl
the consumer are victimized and
li ikn 1/-v Tin r*n r? m net sllannca or larr.
niv,u iV| uv v/?iv uiuov utowuoa vi lv-b
islate a remedy.
i When a patient Is In .such serious
straits that even a consultation of
doctors is deemed dangerous, what
must he said of his previous treatment
of future prospect? When the
economic situation of the country is
so complicated and disordered that
even a consideration of the ailment
and its remedy by the chosen representatives
of the people is deplored,
what must be said of the agencies,
individuals and party policies which
with full swing in government, h^ve
achieved such an end?
If the masses of the people, the
great body of producers and consumers,
that vast army of industrious
and enterprising business men who
seek nothing of the government save
equality of privilege and opportunity,
including legitimate competition,
would grasp the fundamental economic
principle and then demand its
application,, that every time a special
privilege is granted by government
the individual is the loser in
economic liberty an,I possibly there
would be an end to this jugglery
with Congress and courts to sustain
and justify these pernicious policies
and government outrages.
Hut what is the practical thing to
be done? It was a favorite remark
of Jefferson that that government is
b^st which governs least and government
for governmental purposes
is the sole design of civic institutions.
Every age must adapt this doctrine
to itd peculiar needs and the
complexities of its civilization.
In this age clearly the way is
pointed to the divorcement of government
from business by the repealing
of all laws which foster mon
ui uy wmcn special privileges
are granted to a few at the expense
of all and the assumption by government
as one of its necessary functions
the proper regulation and control
of quasi-public corporations.?
National Monthly.
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Wealth Becoming Dangerous. i
Two or three years ago a prominent
banker of Georgia embezzled a i
large amount of fuuda lb; was con- ]
victed, and It was discovered that
since lie committed the offense it
had been graded by the legislature ]
so that it could be interpreted by
jury and judge as a misdemeanor.
In pursuance of the vigilance of his
lawyers and the nmiability of the
legislature he got olt with six
months jail sentence and a fine that
would not seriously jar the average
police court. This is one of the incident
which make for the growing
contempt*of the people for legislatures
and courts.
The astonishing increase in the
difficulty of getting rich men punished
in porportion to their crimes 13
renting on public sentiment as
shown by the recent lynching of a
half dozen powerful cattle magnates
in the Panhandle region of Texas
and Oklahoma. Despairing of ever
seeing them punished for crimes
they had committed, the people as
sembled ann pht them to death. The
nine win soon ho here when the pop- ,
session of much money will doom a 1
man who is charged with crime to i
an impromptu execution rather than '
protect him from the gallows to >
v hich he is fairly entitled. The or- '
dinary exemption from punishment 1
enjoyed by rich men will react, and
the posession of wealth will be a
danger, more likely to permit a man
no trial at all than guarantee a fair i
cne. i
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"In a mln life" is an expression i
frequently heard. A minute sefroi 1
a very small and unimportant frac- '
g
tion of time, and because of ttyat (
Idea most people waste a good many j
In the course of a day. Yet think t
what can be done in the short space \
of a minute. Take traveling as an l
example. In a minute the average v
pedestrian walks sizteen rods, a j
Lrotting horse and an ocean "grey- s
lound" cover half a mile and an ex- o
oress train clips off a mile. That is t
jietty fast traveling but nothing to e
vliat this old world is doing. In one y
liinute it whirls up around on the s
Mitslde of the earth hy its diurnal o
notion some thirteen miles, and it p
peods us on in the same space of e
lino 1,080 miles on its grand tour t<
round the sun. But even that is h<
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THE TRUE BASIS
>F GENUINE WORTH IN A YOUNG j
MAN IS CHARACTER.
G!ov. Hughes on the Young Mens >
Christian Association's Platform
and Service.
We are her today upon a platform
upon which all good citizens can
stand because there is a knowledge
in this association and in any gathering
of American citizens that character
is the basis of industry, the
surety of the endurance of the Republic.
.What a noble thing it is to
see a man well equipped for life's
work, not a narrow-minded man, not
one who tries to shield himself from
all pleasures of life that go to make
well rounded and symmetrical character.
but a young man who realizes
that he is hero In t he wnria tn n,* I
something and before he can do
something worth while, he must bo
something worth while. What a
noble thing it is to see in a democratic
community, with the development
of the capacity for work, which
tend to interfere with proper enforcement
of legislative work, to see
at the same time the soundness of
the views of our people on what
stands for decency and for justice.
We honor every organization which
attempts to keep men up to the
responsibility of their obligations,
which attempts to make clear the
duty that is placed upon them as
free citizens of this republic. Every
one of us knows how soon is the
relapse if we are not held steadfast
to our ideals by social sentiment.
It is a remarkable thing that the
Young Mens Christian Association
has been so successful in providing so
many different fields of activity for
young men. Educational, or physical
improvement, social, religious;
it seems to comprehend about everything
that a young man needs.
I heard, some years ago, a distinguished
educational expert say
that the object of a liberal education
was the wise conduct of business
and the noble employment of leisure
That seems to be the tfbject of this
association; fitting men to play their
part in life with ability, providing
them resources tor the noble employment
of leisure, and giving them
jjiui"'! uuuuuu 01 now lire snolil be
spent.
We have had a good deal of overemphasis
in the past on what has
been called success. The young
America has started out fired with
ambition nB he has frequently read
of the adventures of those who have
preceeded him to obtain what he 1
calls success; and too frequently,
that goal has been defined in terms
of accumulation of material benflts
and of prominent position.
In these days, 1 think, we are taking
a truer view of life. It is a
splendid sight to see the young man
of today going forth to make the
most of himself, not for himself
alone, but for the benefit of his fellow
men.
There never was a time in our
history when mere wealth gave i;s
posessor so few advantages as it
iloes today, in the opinion of h's
fellows. There never was a time
when mere place or ollice, mere title
to distinction, gave a man so li'.le
is it does today .
TIiq KllonlUn ~ r *1.
uiivuuuii me cuumry ih riv
?tod upon worth rather than Uwon
position, upon the means by wlilth
m end has been attained turn upon
lccumulation. That is a m9.it wholesome
thing.
There has been a moral r< viva', a
sharpening of the sense of justice, a
dearer view of the man's obligation
o those around him, a trurer per eption
of the limits which a man
should set for himself in the pursuit
of his ambition, a quiet deter
ninatiou on the part of the people
it large that no man shall overstep
hose limits and be faithless to his
ihligation to the community as a
vhole and at the same time enjoy
he public respect. There Is nothng
in this country that is worth
laving which involves any forfeiture
of that self-respect which conlitions
all true results and every
eal achievement.
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Find Joy in Your Work.
The man who really finds enjoynent
on this mundane sphere is the
nan who gets his pleasure in his
vork. If a man can't find real joy v
n doing wnat he does as a matter of
linking a living, he ought to seek a
lome now employment and keep on r
locking until lie can find something '
hat will bo a pleasure as wi.l as a
al?or to him. Did you ever notice '
he difference in the work of a man I1
vho conies down to the office in the 8
uorning with a smile and tin man
vho sits down at his desk wi'h a
awn or a sigh as much as if to
ay: "Gee, I wish this day was c
ver?" The smiling man is usually
he one who wins favor from his e
nipioyer and is advanced, while his
awning brother plods along at the ei
ame old desk year after year. The
n?> with the smile is ho who finds b
leasure in his work, while the'oth- tr
r is he who seeks new fields or try
) find pleasure in the task at which 11
o labors. a
FIGHT THE TRUSTS
BY BUILDING FACTORIES IN THE
SOUTHERN STATES.
fhey Will Double and Treble the
Value of Our Raw Materials, Says
Terrell.
For years the thrifty North has
Bold us our necessitities, and now it
Is also selling us our luxuries. Take
the item of automobiles alone. You
see them everywhere. In some
towns the bootblackB have them.
They are growing in popularity beyond
any invention of recent years.
Texas is paying out hundreds of
thousands of dollars for them, but
not one to my knowledge is manufactured
in a Southern state. ?
"We sell cows and buy butter; we
sell steers and buy beef; we sell
fruit and buy 'preserves; we sell
hides and buy leather; we sell wool
and buy blankets; wf* sell cotton and
buy calico; and then we stand up
like brave men and cuss old man
Aldrich and the little state of Rhode
Island. Would that we could Bell a
great many demagogues and buy a
few statesmen. To be plain about it
I would like to purchase Aldrich
himself and keep him down here a
few years. I believe it would be a
great investment. He would certainly
turn things upside down. I
would enjoy hearing those New lingland
'Yankees' groaning and complaining
that the South was getting
all their money.
"Gentlemen do you wonder that
the South Is dissatisfied? Are you
surprised when you hear complaints?
Do you wonder that her newspapers
are constantly telling of her woes?
W'hose is the fault? Where is the
enm and where is the euro? Can
conditions be reversed by constantly
abusing the northern manufacturers?
We have tried that plan
for more than a quarter of a century,
and our hearts are weary.
4,|Can it come from political conventions,
from silver-tongued orators,
from high soundinc nl.itfnrm
declarations? Alas! wo have already
had more of these things than any
other hand under the sun.
"Can we reach it by abusing the
trusts? The trusts care but little
how we abuse them so long as we
continue to buy from them. Has
anyone quit buying from them. Has
will not permit them to do business
in Texns. but we send them our dollars
just jtlie same. If we had a
few trusts ourselves they might, worry
the people of some other State,
but they would bring their money
hare. They would create a balance
of trade in our favor. I have noticed
few complaints of the trusts froni
the state in whjoh they are situated.
An old farmer friend once
declared to me In a confidential way
that most of his troubles arose from
the fact that he paid more for the
things he bought than he received
for the thlnes he sold. He seemed
surprised when I told him that much
if the trouble of tho world arose
from the same cause.
"And yet the case is plain and the
remedy is easy. Iluild facf >ries in
the Southern Stat s. I-i not waif
for a new generation; bulb' thorn
now let their smoke i !se lik?> intense.
I^et the in double and treble
he value of our r.;.v materials, and
et the money of the S. ?;t i remain
it nouie.
ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN.
Remember, my son, you have to
vork . Whether you handle a pick
>r a pin, a wheelbarrow or a set of j
>ooks, dig ditches of edit a paper, I
ing an auction Dell or write funny I
hings, you must work. If you look <
iround, you will see the men who
ire most able to live the rest of i
heir days without work are th?e t
lien who work the hardest. Don't i
>o afraid of killing yourself with s
iverwork. It is beyond your power i
0 do that on the sunny side of 1
hirty. They die sometimes, but it 1
s because they quit work at six p. i
n. and don't go home till two a. m.
t's the interval that kills, my son. I
The work gives you an appetite for I
rour meals; it lends a solidity to 1
'our slumber; it gives you a per- c
ect and grateful appreciation for <
1 holiday. There are young men 3
vho do not work, but the world is 1
lot proud of them. It don't know
heir names \ven; it simply speaks
>f them as "So and So's .boys." 1
Cobody likes them; the great busy i
vorld does not know they are there. 1
!o find out what you want to be i
ind do, and take off your coat and t
nake a dust in the world. The 3
under you are, the less harm you 1
re apt to get Into, the sweeter will f
>e your 3leop, the brighter an<l hap- f.
ier your hilidays. andj the better t
atisfied the world will lie with you. f
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Reflections of a Woman. I
Most of man's troubles wear petti- '
oata. 11
Some fast young men are apt to ?
rperlence swift finishes. 1
lleware, my son, of the dark-balr- e
d woman. She can't possibly be fair. a
The hen is a meek and lowly bird; "
ut she has done moro for her conn- 11
y than the eagle will ever do.
No, Alonzo; a girl is not neoesaary
in the angel class because she's 11
high flyer!
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It Is the opinion of somo people
that the paper should be only the I
carrier of news pure and simple and |
that nothing should be atti.apted
in the way of decided plan. However,
the one agen In the Uni'tnl
States that has been a power is the
newspaper. The opinions enunc"..i*e l
are discussed and accepted or rejected
according as the reader pleases.
Hut the editor of a paper f nd
the different writers are bounJ to
and should have some op'nion.
If we are condemned because we
suggest or advocate some principle
or something that seems a necessity
it is nothlnfe more than any one
who has had advanced ideas has .
been subject to.
We believe that the function of
the paper is to lay out now plans'
and advocate that which Is for Mio
1m nrnvdnnm t r?f iKo J
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where any great wrong or crime is
being done, strive by every means
to eradicate it. But to sit in the
editorial chair supinely and gossip
about the neighbors is not our idea
of what a paper should be. To hav J
a principle and stand for it. it its
function and to fight for it if necesFAltMEltS'
SONS.
If you are a farmer and yoa waut
your son to be a farmer after you,
teach him from his earliest lK>y- !
hood to respect his father's calRng. j
Instill into his mind the fact that
the great men of all ages were sons
of farmers. Teach him never to
be ashamed of the senseless ar.d
threadbare jokes of the would-be
humorists over old Hayseed and his
lumbering old market wagon and his
quaintness of speech when n? visits j
the city and stares rouud at the;
sights and does not make half so
much a fool of himself as the aveiase
city man when he come to the
country .
I)o not fill his life entirely with
work. Recreation is as necessary
to happiness and to a healthful development
of the spiritual and the
healthful faculties as is pure air,
and there is untold wisdor, in the
old saying, "All work and no play,
makes Jack a dull boy. '
Encourage him when he tries ta
do well, even if he fails. Failures!
which teach us how to avoid fa mi re
I'isast* rs are successes. Make him
feel that you rest upon his hf ? ness
and truth in whatever you entrust
to him.
Do not blame him when ho is
not at fault, even if things do not
turn out as you expected. Nov r
disparage his eflfortB. Conti ual disparagement
breaks the boy's spirit,
and there is nothing more inspiring,
nothing more refreshing in this
world than the broad, courageous,
undismayed hopefulness of a manly
boy.
Take 'him into your confidence
early. Let him know what you are
going to plant ii> the 10-acre field,
and how you propose to make the
upland fields pay.
Don't snub him. The man who
snubs a boy is unworthy to be the
father of a son. Let him have the
money he earns. You would have
to pay the hired man for taking
care of the calves and the colts; why
not remunerate your boy?
Do not distrust him with farming i
in the beginning by telling hira that
he does not need anything but his i
board and r^othes now, because he';
will have "it all" when you are' ;
gone. Five pounds when a boy is i
ten years old is more to him than ! ;
five thousand will b^ when you are ?
lead and gone and he has the farm, i
Do not starve your family for the 1
3ak< of taking the best of every- s
thing to the market. A broad and j
generous soul can not develop in a
starved body. Live in just as good (
i house as you can own, free from <
nortgage. Have a pleasant, sunny <
iving room with books and papers (
ind music. I |
Encourage your boy to invite his i
'rlends them, and yourself greet ?
.hem cordially when they come. The !
ack of Social privileges at home is {
)ne fertile cause of the temptation
jxerted by city life on the country >
foung man. ?New Zealand Dairy- *
nan. t
A man's success in life is not de- j
lendent upon ancestry or circum- j
stances. To be successful a man ^
nust have will, concentrated decis- on,
determination, action and in- ?
egrity. "(let all you can out of j
four ancestry, because if you do j
lot get anything out of it, nobody
dse wilt be able to do so. Ilut don't
:o back too far in your ancestral
ree; you may find your great grand c
ather hanging on a tree. Your an- v
estry will not make n mnn
f>
f you cannot pride yourself on an K
deal father or an ideal mother,
nake an ideal man of yourself. Pov- j(
rty is noi a hindrance to nobility,
'he sons of washerwomen have ris- n
n to the highest pinnacle of success i
nd nobility of character. Depend I w
pon yourself, not upon your ances- 1 0
ry.
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You can tell a spinster by her
appy and contented look?some- fj
mes. f(
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Bary.
To suggest is not all, but to advocate
with argument and influence
is what the paper should do.
We do not feel that our duty was
done nor de we believe we onght
lo exist unless we stand fo?* something.
A man who stands for nothing
should not live. A society which
has no object had better be disbanded.
A newspaper above all that is
only a news monger had better seil
its presses and type and break up
lecause it is no use whatever and
unless it can numerate some bonefit
done to the community, it has
missed its aim. And every walk of
life should be touched. The farmer
needs the paper, it will teach him
c.>1111-1 mug- i ne merchant needs it,
the mechanic needs it, the old, the
young, and unless we touch the people
on every side of life moral, material,
spiritual and intellectual our
cim has not been reached nor our
object realized.
To do this we must have an opinion,
enunciating that opinion we are
within our rights, which no one can
gainsay.?Hendersonville (N. C.)
French Hroad Hustler.
Farmers Yesterday mid Today.
Only a few years ago the absorbing
question with the common farmer
south and west, was "How shall I
make buckle and tongue meet in
providing for my family?" The
tbought of putting a dollar away was
not entertained for a moment. The
light was for broad and a scanty
variety of food to go with it to meet
the datlly hunger of the family, and
a few plain clothes?in most instances
not enough for comfort. All
week long the old farmer and his
children eonld bo seen with their
simple implements of agriculture
bending between the rows early and
late working with little heart and
hope; and on Sunday, the father, a
gaunt, shrunken, neglected looking
figure could he seen dejectedly
standing about over his mortgaged
Oelds, trying to discover some faint
whisper from old mother earth,
beneath his feet, or the sunny seasons
that came and went above bis
head. Little encouragement did he
find only that nature was his
friend. The fields would and did
respond liberally to the touch of
his hand, but his crops often sold
for less than it cost to produce them,
and by the time the Interest on the
mortgage was paid, little was left
with which to buy calico and cotton<*des
to scantily clothe his family.
Hut that scene is changed, and
fast changing. Fate seemed in hniii
those noble sons of toil to their
fields, and some good spirit began
to whisper the secret of more intelligent
methods and plans of cultivation
and market, and a recognition
of mutual interests, until out
of that chaotic condition of abject
slavery has come a new world of
I t auty and happiness. Our farmers
are now fast becoming the mortt
prosperous men in the nation. Their
mortgages have been paid, their
homes have been built, and liberally
supplied with utensils of convenience,
besides furnished with tho
products of skill and art until they
are atfractive, beautiful and inviting.
The inmates have thrown off
the scanty garbs of mere necessity,
tnd are now clad with comforts and
*re happy. The dejected look on the
r.aco of the father has given place to
\ nroail smile of victory, and he
'teps about his little kingdom with
he tread of a conqueror and with a
ittle hank account to his credit, he
smiles when he meets his old mortgagee.
What has been the secret of this
\onderfnl change in only a decado
t time? The only answer is, "Inlimlrlf
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..H. uiKfiirc anil I'TUKiUlty."
">iit of these virtues have grown imiroved
implements and methods,
igrieultural education and enlightenment,
and an organized husband- _
y. that has elevated the vocation to
listinetlon, honor and power.
Today there is no direction in
\hich our young men can turn their
ittention with larger promise than
he farm. The industry is now buildd
upon stable foundations, and it
as came to abide. Xo happier
lomes are to be found than our
;ood country homes, and no men
.re more highly honored and rei|
ected than the sturdy tillers of
he soil, and no people enjoy mora
i uiTiy.
Homemade Philosophy.
Tho dainty girl wliose summer
lothes arc all ready for the trunk,
ronders which dress is strirtly propr.
Poor girlie, a minister might
ive her the code.
A woman of the world ran enay
life without the strong arm of
er husband. The stay-at-home man
lisses seeing his wife at her heat.
Tho road of life is better traveled
rhen you leave the heavy burden ?
f pessimism behind you.
The steady worker finds the loafer
ie worst bother in the world.
All men are equal, according to
le constitutions, but not according
> their constitutions.