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...Very unconvincing are the efforts of the League partisans to draw any support for their side from the figures of the poll of colleges. Some 158,000 votes were cast out of a possible half-million in colleges, professional a schools and normal schools. The vote therefore, represented only a minor part of the whole voice of the institutions of higher education. A minority, it must not be taken too readily as the voice of a representative sentiment. Who knows that the abstaining two-thirds think...
Radicals and their friends seem to suffer from an elephantiasis of the sense of fair play. This sense shrinks to the bourgeois normal when radicalism becomes respectable, as in Russia. In this country the radicals hardly promise a "square deal" to those whom they seek to dispossess of power. If we seek to dispossess of power. If we seek to dispossess the radicals of the power they now have, is it just to apply their own maxims against them? "He who seeks justice must come with clean hands." J. M. WOOD...
...United States government has at last returned to a normal basis of finance where its expenditures approximately equal its income," said Governor Benjamin Strong of the New York Federal Reserve System in a recent interview as to financial conditions in this country. Governor Strong is one of the best-known of America's financiers, and, although he cannot predict definitely for the coming year because of his official position, he is inclined to believe that 1920 will prove a year of prosperity for America...
...past few years," continued Governor Strong, "finance has not been subject to the normal influences of peace, and this state of affairs will continue as long as governments are forced into paying out more than their revenues bring in. As a war measure the governments of the world have been forced to assume credit wherever they could find it. Although the United States has in the main recovered her stability, the nations of Europe still remain under the war cloud...
...ratification at all, the great bulk of the public caring far more about ratification than about the particular reservations attached thereto. I also believe delay most unfortunate, because until the Treaty is ratified unrest, whether in Europe or in this country, cannot subside, the world cannot return to a normal condition, and the problems of peaceful readjustment cannot be solved...