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...will find in it constant interest and what is more important, independence. In business a change in methods, a change in the control of a corporation, various disasters may wipe away the fortune accumulated by years of labor, and vicissitudes are common, while though a lawyer may not reap as large returns as are gained by bankers and merchants, the results of his labor are more uniform and more steady, and his life is always interesting and as independent as the lot of humanity will permit
...might be likened to a tall laddor which the politician, starting ordinarily at the bottom ascends rung by rung. The climb is long, laborious, and slow. The educated American, ever impatient of results, is not temperamentally equipped for the task, and easily deviates into fields where his ability will reap him a more speedy and direct compensation. On the other hand, the political apprenticeship of the Englishman is of short duration. He serves first in the borough council, and immediately afterwards is eligible to the House of Commons. There are no tedious waits or petty impedimenta. Yet another advantage...
...taste of blood. The Hearsts and their kind who represent Great Britain as a centre of imperialistic intrigue and commercial plotting have no higher object than to make mischief between kindred peoples and financial profit out of a shameful traffic in racial and national prejudices and antipathies. They will reap at best a poor harvest if Canada, Great Britain and the other British nations never forget that he that is slow to anger is better than the mighty. The Montreal Star
...work in the United States. Immigration is no new problem but just now it assumes added weight; hospitality is not the only phase of welcome. Among the many aliens who come annually to these shores, a large percentage are of a low standard of intelligence, and while we may reap substantial benefits from their arrival, there are injurious effects as well to be taken into account. Not only does an inferior grade of foreign labor lessen available employment for Americans, but it tends to depreciate wages and in some instances practically monopolizes a given field. Moreover, those...
...seize every opportunity to gain the point of view of other peoples. The foreign student has come here to gain friends. We are under obligation to help him out. Let us meet the foreign student at Harvard; let us make him feel our friendliness for him, and then reap the benefits which are to be derived from acquaintance with...