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...familiar with their business, who know about our resources and our ability to meet the demands of other countries. We want to build up intelligently our commercial policy and there never was a better opportunity than now. We should keep our newly acquired ships under the American flag and under the control of American shipping firms. Our flag has been off the ocean for a long time and we must get it back. It may become an important national matter with us whether we ship our goods in foreign ships or American. Of course we are a more or less...
Compromis is an excellent and necessary thing in the ordinary work of legislation. In an issue like the present each side is fain to consider a compromise as a compromise with the devil. The only thing the would make Senator Lodge desert the American flag is the voce of the people. Only the voce of the people can turn Senator Hitchcock from the cause of humanity. But the voice of the people says to each of these men different things...
Then I look at that Crimson flag anew...
...Senators can wave the American flag and shout their Fourth of July oratory till they are black in the face; actions speak louder than words. Over all the turmoil there is still audible the faint flapping noise of the Prussian eagle's wings. The German's can be excused. They are Germans. The Senators, however, will find that they will have some quick explaining to do at the next elections before the American people will excuse them...
...colors are for the present to be kept in the Medical School and probably will remain there permanently. The presentation of the flag was made at an afternoon gathering of the Unit, and their guests at the Medical School last Saturday...