. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. ver theirtea and wafers: Alas, we are notgetting the kind of men we used tohave in politics. May it be that they are fortunate innot getting them ? In America, wherethere is the same lamentation, wehave found tis in ourselves that weare thus or thus, and that the kindof men we send to Congress dependsupon the kind of voters that mark theballots. Consequently, in Americawe always get superior men becausewe are a superior people. Is it notso? Now, your Briton is really a bettersort than he seems. He has heard,ever since he was born, that his coun-try is
. Busyman's Magazine, July-December 1907. ver theirtea and wafers: Alas, we are notgetting the kind of men we used tohave in politics. May it be that they are fortunate innot getting them ? In America, wherethere is the same lamentation, wehave found tis in ourselves that weare thus or thus, and that the kindof men we send to Congress dependsupon the kind of voters that mark theballots. Consequently, in Americawe always get superior men becausewe are a superior people. Is it notso? Now, your Briton is really a bettersort than he seems. He has heard,ever since he was born, that his coun-try is going to the dogs. He has heardit from the other party in politics. ABriton ever believes that his countryis going to the dogs. When he tellsyou that it is on the brink of ruin,he merely means that he is opposedto the government—, administra-tion—of the day. For the true-bornBriton is always sure that everythingto which he is opposed is wrong. Hemust be right, because in our countrywe have the same sort of conviction,have we not?. Where Poison Haunts Mans Daily Work, By William Hard in Munsey MODERN science, in the serviceof modern industry, has set it-self the task of developing thenatural resources of the of these resources, Hke coal orstone, are comparatively simple andharmless. Others, like lead and phos-phorus and arsenic, are fraught withgreat danger to the men who handlethem; but all are needed by modern in-dustry. Science, therefore, cannot dis-tinguish between them. It must attackthem all and bring them all into sub-jection. Just as we must have coal for ourfurnaces and stone for our office-build-ings, so we must have lead for thewhite paint that goes on our houses,phosphorus for the matches withwhich we start our fires, and arsenicfor the tanning and the finishing offelt. And prosaic articles of daily uselike matches and white paint and felthats have behind them a backgroundof picturesque, if not romantic, dangerfor the men and women who get themrea
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