The newspapers, the clergymen, the mass-meeting orators, the urgent friends, the restless, ambitious wives, the pert and forward children can at any rate keep on talking in the intervals, when the electors are reduced to silence, patiently awaiting an opportunity to vote.
Wilson illustrates how various societal voices continue to engage in politics even when voters are silent.
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Actual relief can come only from the adoption of constructive measures of a broader scope, from the restoration of peace everywhere in the world.
The price of wheat is a world price; and it is a matter of little moment whether the Canadian wheat goes directly into the markets of the other countries of the world or indirectly through this country.
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