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Perhaps you [the editor] do not know that one of the assassins is the husband of my adored daughter. I do not doubt that the motives that impelled these men to kill a person whose influence was in certain respects fatal were highly patriotic ; but the act itself, the means employed, and the fear of discovery are beneath all Christian ethics and morality. For that reason I disavow this murder with all the strength of my soul, and I pray that its authors may repent, and may find the peace of a purified conscience...
These two gentlemen with their "regular" Republican supporters can kill radical tax measures in committee. But once they send out on the floors of the Senate and House bills of the Administration, the radicals and Democrats can amend and alter them to their hearts' content. The result would be bad for the Republican Party and unsettling to business. "For expediency's sake,," say Messrs. Smoot and Green, " we ought not to try to do what we ought...
...When we planned this trip, I knew that the American people would be kind, but I was afraid they would kill him with kindness. They won't do that, but he must take it easy. ... In a few weeks you women will be forwarded a declaration started by the women of Wales, asking all English-speaking women to unite to work for international peace. If we combine together in the interests of peace and brotherhood we women would be a great power. And we all want peace...
...condition," he continued, "is the constant menace to every man of being called from industrial occupations to arms to answer a call to settle some political quarrel. Most of the men in this room have seen students leave laboratories and study halls to go to the front to kill other men, many of whom were students searching for the same knowledge...
...Chicago, an Italian dance hall proprietress was arrested because she sought to arrange a dance for a " wallflower" by pointing a pistol at a stag and saying: " Dance with that redhead or I'll kill...