That brightest and best of newspapers, the Washington Post, suggests that some Frenchman snuff out the wretched little cad, libertine, and aristocratic brute, Boni Castellane.
Granting that the snuffing out suggestion is a good one, why should a Frenchman be asked to shoot the contemptible and loathsome creature?
The American lady whose money he squandered, whose jaws he slapped, and whose life he wrecked, has three able-bodied brothers—why should the Gould brothers wait for a Frenchman to take hold of the snuffing out job?
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Joseph H. Choate, being asked to define the difference between Cleveland and Roosevelt, answered, “Mr. Cleveland is too lazy to hunt and Mr. Roosevelt is too restless to fish.”
But see what a happy middle-course Mr. Bryan takes. When too restless to fish, he hunts; and when too lazy to hunt, he catches fish. In other words, you never can put your eye on him when he isn’t after it.
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The Moguls of High Finance have about worked out their plans for an elastic currency.
Their own notes are to be used as money, and the only thing back of the notes will be “the general credit of the Banks.”
How pleasant it is to witness the process by which national finance simplifies itself and acquires that suppleness of joint which the Moguls call “elasticity.”