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quis de Custine’s journal of his trip to Russia in 1839. In his criticism of the Russian despotism of his day, the Prince forecast the time when Russian society would perish from being fed for too long empty or contradictory words—“then the deceptive echoes of opinion, the newspapers, wishing at any price to keep their readers, will push on to destruction, be it only to have something to recount for one more month. They will kill society in order to live on its corpse.”

It is now shown to be utter folly to expect the Congress to keep a secret. I agree with Mr. Colby, who advocates terminating the House committees (the Senate’s too, I suppose).

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quis de Custine’s journal of his trip to Russia in 1839. In his criticism of the Russian despotism of his day, the Prince forecast the time when Russian society would perish from being fed for too long empty or contradictory words—“then the deceptive echoes of opinion, the newspapers, wishing at any price to keep their readers, will push on to destruction, be it only to have something to recount for one more month. They will kill society in order to live on its corpse.”

It is now shown to be utter folly to expect the Congress to keep a secret. I agree with Mr. Colby, who advocates terminating the House committees (the Senate’s too, I suppose).