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...Already, the press is crying aloud that it is abused, saying "the estimate of the second class deficit is too large" and "all other postal rates have been decreased since the War, but we still pay War rates." If the movement to increase second class rates becomes definite, the howl will rise in crescendo...
...week has been set aside as Education Week; teachers are urged to impress upon their pupils minds the undesirability of certain kinds of citizens. The bogy of the constitution-destroyer is to be popped out before the terrified school-children. The were-wolf of radicalism will be made to howl again across the barren steppes of the American desert. The generation at school will learn by rote that the penalty of thinking further or faster than their sainted ancestors is "death, destruction, poverty, starvation, disease, and anarchy." George Washington, himself a radical and revolutionist, will be summoned from his grave...
...last stroke of the campaign was struck by the Republicans. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon ordered that the gross amounts of tax returns by individuals and corporations should be made public. The law which made this possible was passed over the Administration's protest by Democrats and insurgents. A howl of rage went up from business men everywhere. Perhaps Secretary Mellon meant to suggest by his gesture: "You may expect more of this if you support our opponents...
...goats and had been heartily cursed in return. That night, as he lay in the dark, he heard a ghastly laugh, he writes, "long and loud, whining and wailing up from the forest, up from the gully, so I judged. I tried to reassure myself. Surely it was the howl of a hyena feasting on the remains of the dead buck? But even as my mind was suggesting this, my subconscious self knew that it lied. That criminal human outcry, it could issue from no animal throat. . . . Somewhere out where the hispid branches swayed, I know there...
When James Senior comes back from the War, and is asked to pick out James Junior from a group of eight babies, he, of course, chooses the right one, inevitably, because James Junior looks up and laughs at him, "glad", while the other seven howl in misery...