Word: sentimentalizers
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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Samuel Gompers's article is significant as representing the sentiment of millions of workingmen and is indicative of the hope held by an overwhelming majority of American people that, when the pernicious peace resolution now before Congress is defeated, the President will resubmit the treaty to the Senate...
...True reform will never be effected by law and force, but only by education healthy public sentiment, and moral suasion. We can no more establish by law ideal relations between capital and labor than between husband and wife or between parent and child. All we can do by law is to keep the peace, protect private property, personal liberty and freedom of contract; and punish pal- pable breaches of obligations which freemen have 'voluntarily assumed...
Great Britain and France, it is alleged, are compelled by the sentiment of their Mohammedan colonies to protect the Sultan. But a large part of the Mohammedan world regards the Sultan as a usurper, and renounces all allegiance, civil or religious, to the Ottoman Empire. Mohammedan troops from India and Algeria fought not only against those Germans, but also against those of their own faith. When Mecca passed out of the power of the Turk, not a murmur was heard; yet Mecca, far more than Constantinople, has always been regarded as the center of Islam...
...went West" fighting in France, brought back for interment in their native land, the feeling preponderates that those who died would prefer to be left with their comrades buried on the field of honor. In this case the few will have to sacrifice their personal desire to the sentiment of the majority...
...work will be participated in by thousands of people. Anyone having considered views on any particular subject can, upon application, receive the appropriate questionnaires and can present their views through the answers. All replies will receive attention in an attempt to reach a balance and condensation of public sentiment...