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...Cathedral of St. Luke, was impressive, devout, tedious. Chief subjects considered by their excellencies of Canada, the U. S. and the West Indies were Peace and Christian Unity. Washington's Bishop James Edward Freeman opened the Pan-American Congress with this observation: "State craft has utterly failed to abolish war, and Christianity must come to the rescue or civilization and the church will perish from the earth!'' Bishop Irving Peake Johnson of Colorado disagreed. Said he: "It is impossible for the church to alter political systems. . . . The church exists to produce righteous people and that...
...whole it seems both unwise and ungrateful of you not to cooperate in this great effort to abolish "hidden" taxes, which supposedly would result in reducing the price ot the world's most informative magazine...
...swept away once a Labor Cabinet with a big majority gets in, have done nothing to block such a development. Again by virtual unanimity last week the Margate Conference resolutioned in favor of "reforms" calculated to deprive the House of Commons or any other authority of ability ever to abolish the House of Lords...
Whereas Mr. Baldwin has been pleasantly vague about World economic recovery by the lifting of trade barriers some day, Mr. Chamberlain declared : "All indications are that we have left free trade behind forever, or until the whole world agrees to abolish tariffs on imports, which comes to pretty much the same thing...
Next day the late Governor whose platform was "The Capitalistic system has failed and immediate steps must be taken to abolish it," was saluted thus by President Roosevelt: "The nation has lost a personality of singular force and courage. . . . Year by year since he assumed the Governorship of a great commonwealth he had become a more massive figure in our national life...