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A Footnote to History

CHAPTER IX--"FUROR CONSULARIS"
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To our galled experience the paper appears moderate; to their untried sensations it seems violent.

We think a public man fair game; we think it a part of his duty, and I am told he finds it a part of his reward, to be continually canvassed by the press.

For the Germans, on the other hand, an official wears a certain sacredness; when he is called over the coals, they are shocked, and (if the official be a German) feel that Germany itself has been insulted.

The _Samoa Times_ had been long a mountain of offence.

Brandeis had imported from the colonies another printer of the name of Jones, to deprive Cusack of the government printing.


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