Word: decentered
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Said Dr. John Roach Straton, militant Baptist fundamentalist clergyman: "Religion is the foundation of the State and the only bond for decent and orderly society. Anything seeking to overthrow the church is a scoffing at the foundation of government itself. The action of Mr. Justice Mitchell is very wise and very just...
...others beside the unhappy journalist yearning for the golden era of the New York Sun in its prime have cause to take alarm at the sturdy growth of this bastard offspring of the more decent journals. The mushroom development to a circulation of 100,000 in less than a year Bernarr MacFadden's "Evening Graphic", trenchantly dubbed the "Porno Graphic", is food for unpleasant thought. It gives some color of justification to Dr. John Roach Straton's arraignment of modern civilization. If in some respects one discerns signs of healthy progress in American life, surely here is a mark...
...tolerance and good will. He, the Reverend William Wilkinson, "the Bishop of Wall Street," has made a daily appearance in the financial district at noon, when sky-assaulting buildings dribble out humanity, let it eddy about for an hour, and suck it in again. The Bishop, attired in the decent cloth of his office, taking station outside the Morgan office, the Sub-Treasury building, or the Stock Exchange, has harangued tolerant gatherings of bottle-nosed clerks, pasty runners for brokerage houses, gentlemen's stenographers...
...have determined that the $100 minimum wage, even with the large crews which we carry, leaves us a substantial profit, and all talk that this is a blow to the American merchant marine or other shippers is bunk. The big shipping companies do not pay decent wages merely because they do not have to. They are interested in keeping their men away from conditions in which they might enjoy the advantages that good wages bring. They want their sailors to remain in ignorance of the better things in life in order that there will be no demand for better wages...
...causes, of crime and its treatment, of immigration, its policies and results, of labor relations, race relations, internal relations. But we study not only what is, but what, in view of these facts we plan to do about it, with a view to a fuller more reasonable, more decent and happier life...