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Best general references: J. D. Dennis, Foreign Missions after a Century; North American Review, vol. 162, pp. 21-32 (Jan. 1896); Forum, vol. XVII, p. 475 (June 1894); Forum, vol. XVIII, pp. 481-490 (Aug. 1894); Century, vol. LX, pp. 500-509 (Feb. 1896); "The Spirit of Missions," vol. XL, p. 524 (Dec 1895); Rev. Geo. A. Gordon "The Gospel for Humanity" (sermon); Bishop Littlejohn, "Foreign Missions" (sermon); Reports of the American Board; International Journal of Ethics, vol. VI, pp. 182-204, (Jan. 1896); Sir R. Temple, "Men and Events of My Time in India;" "Missions and Science" (Ely volume...
...Harvard Forum. Trial Debate for Membership. Harvard...
...Policy risks war unnecessarily.- (1) Active interference in the boundary dispute is not demanded by our interests.- (x) Particular territory claimed by Great Britain is of no importance to us. G. S. Boutwell in Boston Herald, Feb. 2, 1896; F. S. Woolsey in Forum XX, 712 (Feb. 1896); O. S. Strauss, ibid, pp. 718-719; C. L. Rice, ibid, 723,- (y) No danger that this case will furnish a precedent for further advances dangerous to us by Great Britain.- (x) This advance (if advance it is) is under a bona fide boundary dispute which existed before the British conquest...
...message was bad in its effects upon future diplomatic policy.- (a) Future relations with American States.- (1) Will tend to place us in an attitude of supervision over them: Boston Herald, Dec. 18, 1895; Nation LXI, pp. 437 (Dec. 19, 1895) and 459 (Dec. 26, 1895); Woolsey in Forum XX p. 712 (Feb. 1890); Rice, ibid, p. 729.- (x) Message is commonly held to imply a broad doctrine of supervision.- (y) A doctrine of this kind, once thought to be enunciated is adhered to and amplified by the people. Monroe Doctrine.- (2) This attitude of supervision is bad.- (x) Will...
...General appeal to bellicose feeling: Senator Walcott in Cong. Rec. p. 976 (Jan. 22, 1896).- (b) Tends to pervert standards of national honor and greatness.- (1) Insistance on immediate forcible resistance to "anything like an insult," as a test of national honor: C. E. Norton in Forum XX, p. 649-651 (Feb. 1896); Wm. James in Cong. Rec. p. 461 (Dec. 31, 1895); Nation, LXI, pp. 420-421 (Dec. 12, 1895); and ibid...