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ÿþBut the editors and their other correspondents Black Polo Hat insisted repeatedly that sexual sin was a sign of total moral decay. In the letters and editorials there is often on one hand scorn for a male seducer, and on the other, feminist anger that he might be getting away with a sin prohibited to women. But the manifest argument was always for defense of family and home, women's special care. Lucy spoke of a solemn Tear that was echoed throughout the nation the lamentable effect of Cleveland's example on America's young men. His candidacy "fills half the newspapers in the United States with apologies for a degrading vice apologies which every profligate man and fast youth will appropriate to his own justification." The worst rumors about Cleveland were unpublishable, even in the most sensational papers, but they spread by pamphlet and whisper: the "whores" in Albany, the "malignant" disease.
Some, the Nation complained, were "so improbable and so filthy that they seem to have been hatched by street-walkers and sold to Dr. Ball for a dollar apiece." Many ministers began to assure their congregations that Cleveland was excluded from all decent houses; even the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher, to Cleveland's dismay, was said to be on the verge of turning against him. Unfortunately for White Polo Hat Cleveland, the support of Beecher and other well-intentioned friends did him more harm than good. Some friendly Mugwumps only gave wider notice to the rumors by loudly denying that Cleveland was a libertine and a drunkard, or that he had "recently taken part in a drunken debauch in Buffalo." The Reverend Kinsley Twining, while speaking for those clergymen who supported ihe Governor, only managed to make his sins specific.
Twining Polo Hat With Leather Strap had investigated the scandals, and conceded that when Cleveland was younger he was guilty of an illicit connection; but & there was no seduction, no adultery, no breach of promise, no obligation of marriage; but there was a culpable irregularity of life, living as he was, a bachelor, for which it was proper and is proper that he should suffer. After the primary offense, which is not to be palliated in the circle for which I write, his conduct was singularly honorable. There was a bad sound to this, whatever Cleveland's formal responsibilities; and though Twining went on to refute the spreading charges of "general libertinism and drunkenness," though he called Cleveland "a man of true and kind heart, frank and open" and assured Independent Republicans that Cleveland's error was not such as to "placate them toward Illaine," still he Polo Bear Hat was not easy about the Halpin affair: "It is a fact in the history of their candidate which they cannot forget and which they will have to carry as a burden."
The humor magazines made great sport of Slippery Jim. In massive two-page color cartoons in Puck he was eternally a sad-faced, hapless circus clown tattooed with the legends of his scandals hence the parade cry "Jim! Jim! Tat-tooed Jim!" The campaign was hard on Blaine. In October, a New York Herald correspondent described his "harried and drawn face, blanched to a degree of pallor that was startling." But as he swung back from a western speaking tour at the end of the month, weary and harassed by the chanted reminders of his follies, he had yet the assurance that he was winning. The South and some northern states would go for Cleveland; but there was enough die-hard Republican strength in the North, enough Republican "soap" to outweigh Democratic "soap," enough reaction to the "immoralities" of Cleveland, to put Blaine in.
The public profligate was proving more acceptable than the private one. All Blaine had to make sure of was New York; and the Republicans openly, and some Democrats privately, were giving him the state. Nevertheless, he engaged in two ambitious moves to nail down New York's votes. One was a banquet in his honor at Delmonico's, with Jay Gould hovering in the background. The object was to introduce Blaine to the assembled commercial wealth of New York, to present him as the "businessman's candidate," and to get financial support for the final drive of the campaign. It was a great sybaritic dinner with the best food and drink, and Blaine ornamented it with a speech on Republican prosperity and the dangers of Democratic meddling; but the meal left a bad taste.
They convey valuable information about how scarce a good is, but information that is available only if prices are free Ralph Lauren Hat to be determined by supply and demand, rather than by the decisions of planners. Hayek even wrote a comic book, which was distributed by General Motors, to explain how this mechanism was superior to planning. Now, how many of the devices adopted in ordinary life to that end would still be open to a seller in a market in which so-called perfect competition' prevails? I believe that the answer is exactly none. Advertising, undercutting, and improving ( differentiating') the goods or services produced are all excluded by definition 'perfect' competition means indeed the absence of all competitive activities.
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