Word: burden
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Certainly it is the plain duty of the Tennis Association to see that players who pay for the use of courts (and pay such a price) shall find those courts in good condition. As it is now, unless a man is willing to be a burden to his neighbors or to hire a small boy to chase balls for him, his own life will be a burden to him. Cannot the proper authorities give a fair return for the money paid to the Tennis Association...
...ends as work. A man who has more money then he can use still keeps at his business. It is not money that this man loves it is the game. Another man works to gain a living and to gain and hold a position in society which is a burden to many...
...public must be benefited by a check on the express companies, the offspring of the railway, which enjoy all privileges of common carriers, with none of their restrictions. Their present system is a burden. The enormous loss of life could also be brought to the minimum by legislation compelling the adoption of the automatic coupler, proper danger signals, and other new and necessary improvements. Two thirds of our railways are trying to secure this legislation. That the Inter-State Commerce Act is not adequate for many important questions is the declaration of the commerce commission. That further national legislation would...
...question tonight is not one of government ownership, that is outside the present discussion. Government ownership is a thing of future, the and it would be unwise for the government to burden itself at present with a debt of seven billions. But by far the strongest reason for conservative action lies in the imagination of the interests involved. The interests of the railroads are too magnificent for summary treatment. We have already gone too far in radical legislation, and the industrial enterprises of the nation demand with no uncertain voice a policy of retrenchment and repeal...
...life a series of fresh starts, of new beginnings, every week, every day, every hour even, making one. The great helpful moral end of this are the innumerable chances of recovery, of fresh starts, which are so needful in this life of ours. At night we lay down a burden that seems too heavy to again take up and how often have we in the morning been able to renew the task to pick up the burden...