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Show MODERN PROGRESS. A noted English parliamentarian tossed back his thick white mane of hair, stroked his white beard r.nd said in broad Scotch accent to a Xew York. 1 reporter: "The rise in world wages has been i great, but the rise in world prices hat. been greater. We have had progress, ; but it has been progreGS in the wrong i direction. ! "A tourist was traveling in your ! far west. As he inspected an Indian j encampment he said to his cowboy j guide: " 'And are these Indians progressing?' progress-ing?' " 'Betcher life,' the cowboy answered, an-swered, taking a fresh chew of tobacco. tobac-co. 'Betcher life they're progressing. All their medicine men are patent medicine men now.'" |