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...more than a generation American statesmanship has persistently striven to avoid, ignore or forget an inconsistency in our American institution whose existence is a blot upon our national honor the criminal practice of lynching. Outbreaks like that which held the city of Omaha, Nebraska, in a reign of terror for nine hours, culminating in the felling of one citizen, the serious injury of at least two others, an unsuccessful attempt to lynch the Mayor of the City, and the successful lynching of a prisoner charged with a heinous crime,--are but the eruptive symptoms of a disease which has eaten...
...production of a national essential. In answer to Mr. Wilson's plea for the postponement of their strike until after the labor conference at Washington October 6, the steel workers state: "My president, delay is no longer possible. . . . We fully understand the hardships that will follow, and the reign of terror that unfair employers will institute. The burden falls upon the men, but the great responsibility therefor rests upon the other side." The strikers make no attempt at an adequate explanation of why delay is impossible. Nor do they take into account when they say the burden falls upon themselves...
...that spreads and dinners will be a success, or that all will have a good time. No acute observer is needed to tell us that joy is in the air, that celebration is at the same high pitch as one any pre-war Class Day, and that both will reign triumphant until the last observation-train pulls out of New London Friday night, to the tune of "This is Harvard's Day." Fully conscious of the spirit of the occasion, we rise to drink a toast to the graduates, and to wish them all the happiest of possible reunions...
...compulsion with distinct apprehension. Indeed our rough individualistic pioneer, whose passing is still fresh in the minds of the older generation, looked upon government as an evil necessity, and with many misgivings as to whether it was a necessity at all. With the passing of the frontier however, this reign of blatent lawlessness came to an end, and since that time we have been confronted with a growing spirit of paternalism. During the war, when compulsion was to a large extent, absolutely essential, we saw this tendency grow, and though momentarily we find a let-up, it is clear that...
Doubtless many will not be satisfied with particular clauses of the document; viewing it as a whole, however, with its ratification, a long step will be made toward establishing "the reign of law, based on the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind...