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...seemed strikingly strange and most difficult to understand why manufacturers who are the beneficiaries of such a high protective tariff as those engaged in the textile manufacturing industry would be the first to attempt to impose a reduction in the wages of their workers. . . . Reduction in wages are not proposed and are not being forced upon the workers in other industries. . . . Existing economic facts make their position unjustifiable and indefensible. . . . How can the workers in the textile industry sustain a reduced purchasing power through the imposition of a substantial reduction in wages and at the same time maintain and enjoy...
Peace Treaties. The German Government professed itself unable to underStand the meaning which France desired to express with regard to the inviolability of the Peace Treaties. "The German Government considers as self-evident that it is not meant to exclude for all future time the possibility of adapting existing treaties at the proper time to changed circumstances by way of peaceful agreement." Meaning that Germany was still intent upon securing modification of her boundary with Poland...
...some extent a continuation of Bryce's Commonwealth. The author begins where Bryce left off and accounts succinctly for recent developments in U. S. politics. But more important is the service which has been rendered to the people, no matter of what nationality, who wish to understand the workings of the body politic in Britain, and there is much to be derived from that recital of body politics in general. These are no textbooks requiring a scholarly mind to disentangle their sense, but rather are they full of trenchant observation, clear analysis and an ofttimes sparkling wit, written...
...companion who cannot understand "sentimental nonsense...
Last week, there came revolution to Ecuador. Troops in Quito, the capital, and Guayaquil captured the civil and military authorities at both places, jailed them. General Francisco Gomez de la Torre was proclaimed Military Chief of Government. The people were given to understand that the coup had been planned to end maladministration. There was no bloodshed, little excitement...