The book Women, Etc.: Some Leaves From An Editor's Diary was written by author George Brinton Mcclellan Harvey Here you can read free online of Women, Etc.: Some Leaves From An Editor's Diary book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Women, Etc.: Some Leaves From An Editor's Diary a good or bad book?
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Now it is restricted to a class whose chief weakness lies in its financial strength, and, broadly speaking, it is wholly 170 WOMEN, ETC. negative. In recent years, men occupying sim- ilar positions have refrained from expressing judgment bearing upon the conduct of public affairs because of the apparent unwisdom of so doing; and, although we have known well this particular man and observed his conduct some- what closely, we cannot recall a single utterance from him of the character mentioned si...nce he achieved his pre-eminence. We were surprised, therefore, to note a departure from his life-long custom, when, in a newspaper interview, he frankly espoused the cause of a certain political candidate upon the ground that the opposing force was a menace to the business interests of the country. The eflfect was quick and inevita- ble. Those in whose favor he declared sighed; those of whom he disapproved exulted. The former discreetly minimized, the latter loudly magnified, the significance of the utterance; and we have no doubt that the consensus of opinion would be that the one acted wisely and the other shrewdly.
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