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...oxygen-stimulant at best. The theatre, if it is to recover, must do so through itself, rather than through any extrinsic influences. And, after all, New York may grow disgusted with its iniquities. The Restoration period went through something of the same career, we believe. Familiarity is said to breed contempt...
Such attacks, infrequent as they are, are to be regretted principally because they provoke equally extravagant defenses. If, as recently, it is the managers who are under fire, we hear that the competitions provide excellent training for work in the business world; that they breed assurance, discipline, obedience, and other such valuable qualities...
...civilization. . . . When the ordinary American hears of these cases instead of the idealist within him beginning to see red with the higher indignation, instead of English history growing alive in his breast, he begins to pooh-pooh and minimize and tone down the thing, and breed excuses from his general fund of optimism and respect for expedience...
Governor Miller's message on the enforcement of the prohibition amendment and the Volstead law is a model of clarity and logic. It disposes of all opposition in the epigrammatic declaration: "The honest enforcement of the law may lend to its modification: the tolerated disobedience of it can only breed disorder and create contempt for all law." In these words Governor Miller sets forth a fundamental principle. There has been a strong tendency here abouts to place the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead law in a class apart and to talk and act as if a citizen were free...
...experience of another president years ago. When a North African sultan carried off an American citizen and declared that he wanted ransom, the answer was "We want--alive or the sultan dead." And in a very short time we had--alive. There is nothing more likely to breed trouble than the policy which waits while things go on from worse to worse until finally we are in trouble. We have done all we could for those people by words, but we have not been successful...