This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...and try how far, one by one, you can throw them into the river. You will see your money longer than if you put it with a broker, and you will have much greater satisfaction in losing it." The modern "promoter," more classic than Jacob Little, satisfies his conscience with caveat emptor, or, literally translated, "There ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...and try how far, one by one, you can throw them into the river. You will see your money longer than if you put it with a broker, and you will have much greater satisfaction in losing it." The modern "promoter," more classic than Jacob Little, satisfies his conscience with caveat emptor, or, literally translated, "There is a new crop of fools born every year." A Phagocyte. Atlantic City, August 4. BOARD OF PARDONS Suggestion That It Be Abolished as Unreliable and Ineffective. To the Editor of Public Ledger: The refusal to pardon Pascoe forces the conclusion that the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons should be abolished. In the present condition of your State politics there are not enough trained minds to make such a board either reliable or effective. Take Lieutenant Governor Murphy and apply facts. In 1905 Murphy, according to the papers, characterized the verbiage of his political critics by the phrase: "The powers of the English language have been strained to the utmost." I quote one sentence from the Public Ledger, which, even if " strained," will now be recognized by Mr. Murphy as almost prophetic, in view of the subsequent Capitol disclosures: "It is true that the doors of this building present the brazen imprint of the faces of Quay and Penrose; but, now, poetry can aid politics, and decent men before these doors will vary Dante's description of the gates of hell, and assert: 'Who enters here must leave all honesty behind.'" Lieutenant Governor Murphy's place in history as the presiding officer of the Pennsylvania Senate in its last session would prevent those familiar with the law of intellectual probity from asking of him justice tempered with mercy. Lesl1e Chase. Atlantic City, August 4, 1909. If S...
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