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Show HABIT OF EXTRAVAGANCE. Justice Brewer Lifts a Warning Voice to People of America. New York. "Wo aro busy denouncing denounc-ing trusts, but the most dangerous of them all Is tho trust In the futuro to pay debts," said Justlco David J. Brower of tho Supremo court of tho United States Sunday at a meeting of the Pcoplo's Forum of Now Ilo chelle. "Our great oxpanslon nnd rapid growth in population and resources aro developing a habit of extravagance. extrava-gance. Wo havo been most unwlBely discounting tho future. "Wo aro trembling on tho vergo of wondrous social nnd political changes. Thoso most important, most profoundly profound-ly involving tho social, business and political llfo of tho republic, do not spring from railroad rates and rebates, re-bates, inspection of packing houses, tho coal trust or tho Standard Oil company. Far moro profound nnd i vltnl is tho building up In this nations' of a universal body of honest, intelligent, in-telligent, patriotic cltienslilp. In our success 1 nthls direction lies tho prom-iso prom-iso and tho prophecy of tho futuro." |