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...national improvements. But the longest, the most influential, and the most decided of the attacks on the treaty came from Senator James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois. Mr. Lewis said that the waterway would give Great Britain an important wedge into our boundaries, and that the United States could not afford this wedge at a time when Russo-Japanese affairs made a British-American war an ever present danger. Three thousand miles of unfortified boundary separate the United States and Canada. The military value of the waterway treaty, if war were declared, has no more than a scholastic importance; the military...
...Certainly the President was thinking about silver, if only because a soft answer sometimes turneth away radicals. Arkansas' Robinson, Democratic leader of the Senate, might announce (as he did), "My personal opinion is there will be no silver legislation in the near future." But the President could not afford to ignore a subject so dear to the heart of Congress. It was indicated that if necessary the President would have Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi introduce a White House silver proposal. Such inflationist outcries as were heard came chiefly from the Senators and Representatives of the six large silver...
...were elected in just the same way that you were elected, powers which are theirs under the charter. It is not a delegation of power by the legislative body of the City of New York, as was the case in Washington. ... It is my strong belief that we cannot afford to set up a host of dictators, many of whom would be much more concerned with political considerations than with the welfare of the people. . . . Representative and democratic government, bestowed upon us by centuries of human struggle, should not be so hastily scuttled. "In the public press you are credited...
...participate in the auction of her relics last week were Mrs. Edward H. Manville, Mrs. Walter P. Chrysler, Mrs. John North Willys, Actor David Warfield, many another great name. Present, too, was Muriel McCormick Hubbard to buy as many of her late mother's belongings as she could afford. She spent $60,000 and got, among other things...
...result of this bitterness against Japan will probably be a commercial boycott by the leading powers; Japan, desperately struggling for some sort of economic existence, cannot afford to have her markets cut off in this summary fashion; it would mean, quite simply, that she would not be able to make both ends meet. For Japan this is not merely a dispute over a lucrative trade but a veritable fight for economic life. Denied her present outlet she must expand elsewhere--which can mean only China, and inevitable collision with Russia...