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...only subject upon which intolerance is justified is intolerance. All enlightened people must muster their powers of ridicule and action to blot out this contemporary blight...
Giolitti. Ex-Premier Giolitti (Liberal) confined himself almost entirely to attacking the Government's restriction of the freedom of the press. According to him, it was unprecedented, unwarranted, a blot. Ending his short, well-balanced speech, he turned to the Premier, said: "For the sake of Italy's prestige do not treat people as if they were unworthy of that liberty they have hitherto enjoyed...
...struck up immediately causing the worthy gentleman to start in a run for the pulpit. For the same performance we received the approval of Professor Peirce and Child. On the other hand we were damned by the New York Herald, from whom censure is an honor, and praise a blot...
...worthy of the standard Mr. Child has long since set for himself. Having peered behind it, however, we cannot, unlike Alice, recall any adventures--no, we must find the Carpenter and shed another tear. . . . Swallowing hard, we escape from the prologue to the editorial page. What, O Lampy, Ibis, Blot! What has become of the magic pen? Where is the gentle flow of easy banter and the singular style that once outran alike sophomoric itchings and threadiness of subject? Such a bare veneer of it is the first editorial; and the rest, indeed, somewhat less than three paragraphs of silence...
Said William James: "I went in curiosity for a day. I stayed for a week, held spellbound by the charm and ease of everything, by the middle-class paradise, without a sin, without a victim, without a blot, without a tear. . . . You have culture, you have kindness, you have cheapness, you have equality...