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...same atitude was expressed by Senator Lodge, who said he "never would consent to setting any precedent to permit a foreign power by threat or compliment to tell us what we should do in legislation...
Robert La Follette. The vote of Wisconsin is securely in Fighting Bob's pocket. It has two significances: 1) Either as a threat of a third party to make the Old Guard do his bidding; 2) or a nucleus with which openly to secede from the G. O. P. and start alone. Mr. La Follette's health seems to prejudice serious consideration of the latter course...
...enlist in any future war, Mr. Abbot declared, "I heartily disagree with any such policy, and I thank that these people who go to the different colleges trying to stir up pacifist enthusiasm should be put in prison. If we are to abolish violence, and even tea threat of violence from international affairs, we must devise means for arraying against in natural hatred and loathing. Our plan, by taking away all promise of profit in war, would destroy a great deal of the incentive for war. It would make the declaration of war as solemn, and as repugnant a thought...
When Turkey went to war against the Allies in 1914, the most dreaded weapon in her armory was the threat of the Jehad or Holy War-power to declare which was vested in the office of the Califate. Dutifully the Calif pushed the button. Nothing much happened. The Jehad did not prevent the British Moslems and the French North African troops from fighting against the Central Powers, nor did it hold back the Arabs from declaring their independence and fighting as Allies of the British in Palestine. The Jehad proved to be a "dud" shell; but when the Grand National...
...Grant was very vehement in striking at his conservative opponents. "In the sixteen hundreds," he said, "religious questions were political questions, and an atheist or a Baptist was an anarchist. We are returning to such a condition, and can seen in religious bigotry, and ignorance, and persecution, a political threat. The basis of all this conservative certitude and attack upon progressiveness is to be favored in the miraculous character of the religious they profess and the sense of providential care and direction under which they flourish. If Jesus is to return in clouds of glory and snatch up Brother Stratton...