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Updated: May 9, 2025
'Whose sliding-scale of innocence is that, I wonder! exclaimed Miss Howard, contemplating the variously sized chubby faces through the window. 'He, he, he! ho, ho, ho! giggled the guests. Another batch of innocence now hove in sight. The youngsters, however, maintained their position. 'The little stupexes! exclaimed Miss Howard, going to the window, and throwing up the sash.
They were afraid lest Hepburn and Coulson should be dazzled by the amount of profits, and had so arranged the sliding-scale of payment as to reduce the first year's income to what the elder men thought a very moderate sum, but what to the younger ones appeared an amount of wealth such as they, who had neither of them ever owned much more than fifty pounds, considered almost inexhaustible.
Meanwhile we need not anticipate serious international difficulties in the way of the sliding-scale plan; for foreign governments are watching the tide of immigration with mixed feelings. They welcome the two or three hundred million dollars sent home annually by alien residents in the United States.
We offer annuities at rates graduated according to ages, on a sliding-scale infinitely more advantageous than what are called tontines, which are based on tables of mortality that are notoriously false.
If now and then some insensitive began to trespass, there was a sliding-scale of dismissal that never failed of its work, and that really saved the author from the effect of intrusion. He was not bored because he would not be. I transfer at random the impressions of many years to my page, and I shall not try to observe a chronological order in these memories.
Newspaper notices are only useful to arouse attention. 'Dear me! says the public, 'there's a publication that must be interesting. The title is good, 'Taxation and the Sliding-Scale, but I find that the more piquant a title is, the more buyers distrust it, they have been taken in so often; they wait for the notices.
And they said well and wisely, for there were grave objections to some of those details. These objections they have removed, and infinitely added to the efficiency of the sliding-scale; but in removing the principal objections, they stirred a hornet's nest they rendered furious a host of sleek gamblers in grain, who found their "occupation gone" suddenly!
However, no outbreak happened, for la Peyrade held him in leash by the famous pamphlet on "Taxation and the Sliding-Scale"; the conclusion of which had been suspended during the excitement of the moving; for during that agitating period Thuillier had been unable to give proper care to the correction of proofs, about which, we may remember, he had reserved the right of punctilious examination.
Besides, I made, not forty, but forty- five shillings, under the sliding-scale". "Yes, but no brave nation would submit one day to such petty squalors after it was shown the way to escape them". "There is no way", said the mechanic: "there are the books, and the talkers; but the economic laws that govern the units like you and me are as relentless as gravitation.
It would so appear at all events, if we care not to look beneath the surface; and, in sooth, since the abolition of the sliding-scale has rendered the corn-supply continuous and regular as other staples, gambling to any ruinous extent has become almost impossible. There is another great change apparent here; albeit this has been a very gradual one.
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