This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...The period of hard times and the periods of prosperous times have evidently not been accidental, but subject to inexorable law. Nature has been as bountiful with her favors in non-protective periods, as in protective periods. Brain and hand have been as ready to execute the requirements of enterprise. The policy ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...The period of hard times and the periods of prosperous times have evidently not been accidental, but subject to inexorable law. Nature has been as bountiful with her favors in non-protective periods, as in protective periods. Brain and hand have been as ready to execute the requirements of enterprise. The policy pursued has made the times. Such being the case, the conclusion is inevitable from the facts adduced, that the policy of non-protection--free-trade or an approximate thereto--in American polity has been subversive of American prosperity, and one of the most potent causes of each and every period of hard times occurring in the country from its earliest settlement to the present time. Irving M. Scott. NEXT NUMBER. "yyE HAD gathered all that New Year's Eve, Friends and neighbors, kith and kin, To watch, as our custom long had been, The Old Year out, the New Year in. The fire we lighted that New Year's Eve Burned for a space with a cheery glow, --Burned for a space, and then burned low, Flickered and flared and faded slow. The games we played that New Year's Eve Were games of pleasure, of mirth and song; But silence fell as the hours grew long, And just as that solemn hour drew near, --The last sad hour of the dying year, --Out on the night air, sharp and clear, Filling our souls with nameless fear, Came the mournful well Of a tolling bell--A deep-toned, weird, unearthly bell. "Hark!" said our host, and his face grew white, "Hark! for the ghost bell rings tonight! "In yonder wood A tower once stood--A gloomy tower, dark and tall; And crooning gossips love to tell What there, one New Year's Eve, befell. "'T was midnight's hour When from that tower, Startling the night, a shriek rang out--A shriek that made the blood run cold; A...
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