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Happily, all the strenuous Americans herein arbitrarily assembled are dead. Mr. Dibble has nothing to fear in the way of retaliatory protest. But the reader cannot quite escape a not unpleasant tingle of tremulous anticipation observing the trustful juxtaposition of P. T. Barnum and James J. Hill, or Admiral Dewey at bay between Jesse James and Brigham Young. Among the seven names represented between the strenuous cloth covers are one woman (Frances E. Willard); one capitalist (J. J. Hill); one sailor (Dewey); one politician (Mark Hanna); one showman (Barnum); one Latter-day Saint (Young); one bandit (James...
...separate list of those born in the Swiss Canton of Vaud [where the murder took place]." It was understood that the Government intends to deport all the Swiss from the Canton of Vaud who are living in Russia and all those who have recently entered the country, as a protest against the acquittal of Conradi...
Progressivism at Washington even by observers not satisfied with the old parties, has been viewed as little more than a movement of protest. It has developed no single constructive issue which could be used as a nucleus for a third party; it calls for the highly unnatural union of the Wisconsin-Minnesota group, itself by no means homogeneous, and Borah and Johnson...
Such inconsistency is to be expected when the aims of the movement are altered from one session to the next. Its protest at one time takes the form of a bonus bloc, then of a farm bloc, and now a railroad bloc. The present phase, the railroad bloc, like those preceeding it, lacks unity as to personnel and policies. The Wisconsin-Minnesota group seems to predominate, huddled together behind La Follette who has produced no clear-cut plan for administering the railroads...
...value of the road's property must be paid to the Government ; from such taxes a contingent fund is to be forced, to be loaned to weaker roads in case of need. About $96,000 has been recently paid in by 16 roads under this clause, although under protest. The validity of this clause is still being contested in the courts...