Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1884 — Chinese Proverbs. [ARTICLE]
Chinese Proverbs.
"Secrets will leak.”— Blaine, in House of Representatives. “Burn this letter.”— Blaine to Fisker. “Public office is a public trust”— Governor Cleveland. “Wherever concealment is desirable, avoidance Is advisable.”— Blaine, in House of Representatives. “No one will ever know from me that I have disposed of a single dollar in Maine.”— Blaine to Fisher. “If there had been anything to conceal about it, I should not have touched it."— Blaine, in House of Representatives. “I am immeasurably worse off than if I had never touched the Fort Smith matter.”—Blaine to Fisher. “I do not feel that I shall prove a deadhead in the enterprise it 1 once embark in it”—Blaine to Fisher. “Owing to your political position, you were able to work off all your bonds at a very high price.”— Fisher to Blaine.
