Word: mobbed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hated their enforced treachery as such as have the subject nations who save suffered from it. The massacres in Armenia were not caused by the blood thirstiness of the population but by the fact that the rulers ordered massacres and had to be obeyed. There has never been mob rule in Turkey--the civil population has always been only too willing to follow the man with authority...
...York. In other words, a part of labor believes the public more interested in its own convenience and pocket-books than in seeing justice done. Such a pessimistic outlook is ruinous to the proper functioning of government. If every workingman becomes an advocate of "direct action" we will see mob rule established in a very short time...
...many riots are occurring. The papers are filled almost daily with the account of some mob violence. The latest incident on this path to anarchy is the attempt of ex-service men to stop by unauthorized force the German opera given at the Lexington Theatre, New York...
...should be set in motion as soon as possible. One or more nights of German opera is infinitely better for the morale of the nation than such a disgraceful disturbance. If the country is to continue being run by laws rather than by the whims of demagogues, this mob spirit, must be quelled...
Neither of his letters makes any definite statement, save that he is not surprised--an assertion with which I have no quarrel; he only implies by turns (a) that a lynching mob should not be punished by law, (b) that, apart from the question of whether they should be punished or not, they are normal citizens, acting from good motives. Both these doctrines seemed to me too mischievous to pass unchallenged; and I attacked them with arguments which he gives no sign of having read, and certainly has not answered. But when I read in his second letter...