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...possible methods of ameliorating the lot of the poor classes,--surely three of the most pressing questions in our industrial life. Unlike most treatments of these topics, the opinions advanced are based on carefully thought out analyses of all sides of the question, they are controlled by sanity of judgment and freedom from pet theories or that delight in monkeying with things so rampant today, and in each case they not only point out the difficulties but suggest solutions of these difficulties. Is there not in these judgments the ring of sound judicial opinion...
...daily association perpetuates and our education emphasizes. To believe that this can be obliterated and an aggressive spirit inculcated by three or four months of association in training camps once in a man's life-time unduly discounts the persistence of the democratic impulse and seems, in my judgment, unjustly to recognize a strength of appeal in militarism which is not there. It seems much more likely that men who have had some contact with military methods will be better able to forecast the costliness, wastefulness, and destruction of war and, therefore, more desire to avoid it than will...
...abate one whit the just right of the United States to act, when it does act, in its own duly constituted way. But he also believes in the participation of America (not its dictatorship) in measures which offer at latest a chance of bringing stability to the world. His judgment and his sanity are known of all men, and no other man is so qualified by his past and recognized achievement to restore mutual understanding...
...victory of 1898. With the eyes of the whole world watching the experiment of the United States, he made a brilliant success. Transportation, schools, justice, government, and above all yellow fever had to be dealt with in a manner demanding of the governor the highest qualities of judgment character and action. The foresight and courage with which he supported the experiments of the medical men for the extirpation of yellow fever, of far reaching importance in the history of Cuba and the Canal Zone, was a marked feature of his administration. In 1899 Harvard conferred...
...judgment of The World the best equipped and best qualified man to succeed Woodrow Wilson as President of the United States is Herbert C. Hoover...