The Call of an Epoch - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1172269114 ISBN 13 : 9781172269112

Editeur : Nabu Press, 2010

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It is also quite superfluous, since the motif of these and all of my many public speeches is aggressively obvious and monotonously recurrent. It is prefixed here with the same idea whatever it is that musical composers have, who finish with a rush at the same chord they began with, but louder. My old friend of other years, Thomas Fitch, a great man, who would have got a high place in our history if he had not known so much, once made a petulant but friendly comment on my mental equipment. He had brought an ominous looking lawsuit against a rich client of mine and appeared at the trial with a wonderful brief. I had none, but beat him promptly and conclusively. As we walked away together from the Court House, he said: It is of no use to be a good lawyer. I knew all the learning of that case, from Moses to the morning paper, and you didnt know anything except where to kick me. At my first survey of the case against the liquor traffic I saw precisely where to kick it. The Church was the logical plaintiff and it was an ollapodrida of temperamental temperance societies! that made merely a number of slight ripples in the main streamj of liquor power, without checking or disturbing it. Like the ok woman that lived in a shoe, she had so many children she didn know what to do, while the liquor traffic was a compact, fighting political profiteer, with a single political issue, a perfectly definitj program and no party, no pity, no patriotism and no conscience The temperance societies and evangelists were doing a noble work and, in a small way, successfully. But the scale of opera- tion was the same as that of the benevolent Samaritan who, oni his way somewhere else, gave first aid to one of many victims cf a band of thieves who themselves would not have resented the charity. And while they towed one derelict to the inn of abstin- ence, the licensed saloon beat up and r
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nabu Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1172269114
• ISBN 13: 9781172269112
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible