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...referred to as robbers, he develops hatred for them as men that have in some way gained the wealth that should be his, and when this hatred reaches a certain intensity in the muddled thoughts of a man with unbalanced brain, he is ready to throw a bomb and kill any number of people in order to wreak revenge on the wicked bankers that demagogues and their approving newspapers have taught him to hate. --Boston Commercial Bulletin...
...supreme geniuses, or does it cause the finished product, the college graduate to emerge from his own particular Alma Mater with the same ideas and the conventional outlook upon the problems of life as is possessed by the thousands of other youths who also are college bred? Does college kill the genius by making him conventional, and does it make the fool over, because he has been trained in the ways and thoughts of intelligent men? If so, education is a detriment to the men who are ultra brilliant, and the world is bound to lose...
Responsibility for the split seems to rest entirely upon the shoulders of the capital group, for it was in that body that the majority was found to kill labor's resolution recognizing the right of collective bargaining. All along capital has said that if they could only sit down and talk it over with labor, everything would be all right. When the show-down came, it was capital that started the "scuttling" tactics...
...Bolshevism cannot be checked by argument," says Mr. Carver. He is right. It can't. And the inference is that the only other way is to kill it with clubs and guns. But Mr. Carver doesn't advocate that, for he says "If . . . the principles of peace triumph, civilization will advance." He means, of course, that we have done well to give up our attempt to smash a new system of government with guns; we should try the methods of peace and understanding, that we may not drift "toward another Dark...
...whole-souled praise. They overestimated, if anything, the German influence in America and entirely excused our slowness in entering the war on that ground; indeed they were surprised that we got in as well as we did. The pet joke of the Canadians was that they had to kill the Boche to keep the Americans from murdering...