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“Edite, bebite, collegiales, Post multa sæcula procula nulla!” “Eat ye then, drink ye then, social companions, Centuries hence and your cups are no more!” The mildest of the clerks comes out well with Kotzebue’s philosophical song:— “Es kann ja nicht immer so bleiben, Hier unter den wechselnden Mond; Es blüht eine Zeit und verwelket, Was mit uns die Erde bewhont.”
A distinguished German publicist, criticising this overpowering interference of the state, writes: "Mir ist wohl bewusst dass diese Gedanken einst weilen fromme Wünsche bleiben werden: die Schatten lähmender Müdigkeit die fiber unserer Politik lagern, lassen wenig Hoffnung auf fröhliche Initiative. Allein immer kann und wird es nicht so bleiben."
"Looks we could stand it, Mawruss; but if we would start in giving him a raise there would be no end to it at all. Lass's bleiben. If the feller wants a raise, Mawruss, he should ask for it." Barely two weeks after the conversation above set forth, however, Jake entered the firm's private office and tendered his resignation. "Mr. Perlmutter," he said, "I'm going to leave." "Going to leave?"
Thus is Parliamentary Government carried on in the Empire of the Hohenzollern! Passive obedience and discipline are the cardinal virtues inculcated by the Hohenzollern. “Verboten,” “Nicht raisonniren,” are their watchwords. A Hohenzollern brooks no opposition. “Wir bleiben doch der Herr und Koenig und thun was wir wollen,” said the Sergeant-King.