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WILSON NUGGETS "There never was a time when impa tience and suspicion were more keenly aroused by the pri vate power selfishly employed." "It requires self restraint not to at tempt too much, and yet it would lie cowardly to attempt too little." "Xo group of di rectors, economic or political, can speak for a people." "We need no rev olution we need 110 excited change we need only a new point of view and a new method and a spirit of counsel." "There should be an immediate (tar iff) revision, and it should he down ward. unhesitatingly and steadily down ward." "Those who buy are. not even repre sented by counsel. The cost of high living is arranged by private under standing." li so called labor question is a question 11 1 be cause we have not yet found the rule or right in adjusting the interests of la bor and capital." .101 Supplement to The Manchester Democrat, Manchester, la., October 1,1912. Vol. XXXY11L, Xo. 45. "Favors are never conceived in the general interests they are always for the benefit of the few."— Woodrow Wilson c/e*i if Jot* Vice^Z^re^STc/ejttf A- MARSHALL NUGGETS "Let us under stand that it i- pos sible for tlie man in broadcloth and the uian in hodilcii-gruy to be brethren in America" "The protest of every man who voted for President Taft and who is now dissatislied with the President's manage ment of public af fairs proves that for four years a minor ity lias been in the majority in Ameri ca." "The social eondl. tlon which we call Dcmorrae and which finds its ave nue of expression at the polls through our party, is un alterably opposed to special privileges, whether granted by the law or seized by ruthless ambition." "The individualism of Thomas Jefferson is not dead. It walks the earth this day, knocking at lie door of rich and poor, of wise ami ignorant, alike." "If I did not believe that in so far as human agen cy can, this party of ours would pro mote tln brother hood of mankind. I would here and now repudiate it."