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...arbitration treaties. They decided however, to treat of other matters as well, and invite the legislative representatives of other countries to sit with them. In June, 1889, the first meeting of the Interparliamentary Union was held and meetings have been held every year since except during the War. The object of these unofficial meetings is "to unite in common action the members of all parliaments constituted in national groups to secure co-operation," etc., etc., in the usual vague and well-known terms...
...believe in curbing free speech, nor do I believe in making this country the stamping ground for every revolutionary agitator of other countries. This is no place for them. Nobody, I believe, will object to any citizen of the United States advocating a change of our form of Government by legal and constitutional means, but I do not believe we should admit foreigners to this country to preach anarchy or a revolutionary overthrow of Government...
...glad the United States has shown the world how she treats people of that kind, whom we too often complaisantly ignore. I trust this will act as an object lesson to our people...
When The Vortex was in rehearsal, A. L. Erlanger, veteran of theatrical production and real estate, removed his name from the program because he objected to the situation in the third act where a son describes to her face and with some emphasis Ms mother's moral status. From this and other reports the impression was current that the play was modern, obscene and objectionable. It turned out to be a study, in several of the characters, of idle rich degeneracy. So true was the portraiture, so sure the writing, so engrossing the setting, and so perfect the performance that...
...physical and material welfare and prosperity of the human race, or to assist in the discovery and perfecting of any special means of alleviating or curing human disease, or to investigate and determine the value or importance of any discovery or invention, or any other special or temporary object of the nature above stated." Specifically it was mentioned that the investigation might be medical, geographical, historical, or scientific in character...