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...great agricultural population of the middle west are the great exponents of this Americanism. American traditions and ideals are today the dominant element in their citizenship. If the country is to be saved from the general demoralization of the present day, it will be saved by this population and not by the urban population with their narrow class consciousness and antagonism, their splenetic attitude and petty quarrels. And there is no man who so completely embodies this broad and constructive spirit of nationalism as Governor Allen...
...Hanson, the ex-mayor of Seattle, who won nation-wide fame by the efficiency and firmness with which he cleaned out the radical element in Seattle, will speak at an open mass meeting to be held this evening at 8 o'clock in the Scenic Temple Theatre at Central Square under the auspices of the Cambridge Board of Trade...
Second--It is wrong in principle. Are we to aid the pro-German element in their very real and concerted effort to be re-accepted into public favor? Mr. Kreisler represents this element. And are we so soon to forget the class of ex Hun soldiers of whom Kreisler was one, and what their side of the fight stood for? At this time, when the war is hardly over and peace not yet signed, the fact that Harvard is giving this concert cannot properly be reconciled to the feeling of reverence we should have for our sacred dead...
...returned soldiers who were preached to about the value of education, but denied the means to get it. Next are 10,000,000 laboring men and women with their short hours and large pay, well able to devote the time and money to study. The foreign element, he listed next, men who especially need this educational treatment to make them better citizens and better able to understand the government of which they are a part when they come to this country...
...success: the middle-class trade union must draw largely from intellectuals, teachers, and professional men. These men have for the most part very divergent interests. Moreover, they are the most individualistic element in society. Organization for them would be impractical on the one hand, and distasteful on the other...