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...industrial dispites, in particular, this tendency has been apparent. A strike may sometimes be excusable; violence can never be excused. As contrasted with some other countries, we have been too apt to see great emergencies where none exist, and to resort to gun-play before there is any need...
...force; and the vicious circle widens indefinitely, each side alleging self-protection as the cause for its acts. The recent series of affrays in Matewan, West Virginia, have already cost a dozen lives, detectives, strikers, and peaceful citizens being numbered among the slain. Such futile affairs as this need never occur, if only employer and employee alike could learn to refrain from provoking their opponents...
...country has never been noted for generosity toward the commissioned officers of its land and naval forces; but never before now has our niggardliness reached the proportions of a menace to our national safety...
...time has abandoned a policy of exclusive debating with Yale and Princeton and has held debates with outside colleges. It is perhaps fair to say, however, that the coming debate with the University of Washington will be the most unique contest since the inauguration of intercollegiate debating in 1892. Never before has there been any contest which was at all representative in character. Intercollegiate debates had generally been arranged in groups of three and have meant but little except to the colleges engaged. Nearly as old as the Harvard-Yale-Princeton debates is the so called "Now England League" between...
...time to remove from the great federations of labor a power which ought never to have been theirs--the power of threatening the nation with a period of economic helplessness. Had these measures been in force the Adamson Bill might never have passed, the painful twisting of the Lever Act might have been unnecessary,--in short, the disgraceful interim in government by the peoples' representatives might never have occurred...