Word: warring
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...there a high cost of living? To understand this one must review the economic history of the country since the Civil War. The universal tendency has been to combine and form monopolies. Railroads, industrial corporations, and public-utility organizations have all joined into communities of interest, and have consolidated, usually by owning one another's stocks. Now what is the force at work to bring about trusts and combines in spite of all adverse legislation...
...Hague court, one of the most important instances of the triumph of Mr. Taft's administration over those obstacles is that supplied by the work of The Hague tribunal having brought before it the fisheries question between the United States and Great Britain. Elihu Root, ex-Secretary of War and of State, and now United States Senator from New York, has rendered many and great services to his country; and among these great services is that which he rendered last summer when in charge of the American case at The Hague. Nor was this service only to the United States...
...which represented in the highest sense applied morality because it represented the successful performance of that most difficult feat, the efficient putting into practice in any concrete case of the principles which must obtain if we are ultimately to establish justice, achieved through peaceful methods, as a substitute for war in international relations...
...Hopkinson Smith spoke in the Living Room of the Union last evening on "Old Plantation Days." Mr. Smith's object was to tell of the Negro's life before the Civil War, and create an atmosphere for his hearers, rather than to solve the negro problem...
...point of what I have been saying is that wars are not paid for in war-time, but the bill comes later...