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...fall or at least change so utterly that we will not be able to recognize it, and it will fall not because its institutions are unworthy to survive, but because it could not call on the continuous unrecorded services of its citizens. After all, if men of education who owe much to their country are unwilling to take a serious interest in its affairs, can we honestly blame men who are not familiar with these institutions and who owe very little to them for not taking an interest in them and making sacrifices for them...
...chiefly to Lord Montagu, the ex-Secretary of State for India, that the newspapers owe the recent revelation of the state of affairs in that province--a state of affairs hitherto concealed rather carefully. It appears that Montagu, regarding the Moslem element as the dominating force in India, published a few days ago a memorandum of the Indian Government which explained the demands made by the Kaliphat, or Moslem movement; including the restoration to the Turk of Constantinople, Thrace, and Smyrna, and the submission of the holy places of Islam--Jerusalem and Mecca--to the authority of the Sultan...
...February 10 is the last day for paying term-bills. To those students who have not then paid what they owe the University the Bursar will send notices that they have been separated from the University and are not entitled to its privileges. Reinstatement can only be obtained, after the student's indebtedness has been paid together with the fee of $10.00 for reinstatement, by consent of the Dean of the Department in which the student is enrolled...
Evidently, then, the more we owe abroad, the better it is for our manufacturers, for they are enabled to export more. And every dollar that we pay Americans for carrying our goods is that much lost purchasing power for our foreign customers. Were shipping as efficient (profitable) a way of investing capital as manufacturing, this would involve no loss to the country. But the hard struggle to meet foreign competition which our ship owners have had for half a century shows that shipping is no longer an industry in which we have a "comparative advantage". Why, then, invest our money...
Moreover, it is impossible for the government to carry out its proposed financial reorganization--the most important provision of which is the abolition of the odious Liking (internal customs duties)--when it must cater to just those authorities which owe their luxurious positions to them. During the period of weak Central Government these duties have increased to an enormous extent, and they are now paralyzing all the agencies of law, order and prosperity in the country...