Word: americans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...courses offered are open to all trade unionists of the American Federation of Labor and their families. More than 200 prospective candidates have field applications, although the regular enrollment has not yet started. Courses are offered in English Composition, Philosophy, Public Speaking, Literature, History and Government, Labor and Physical Science. Classes in each course will meet one evening a week from...
...more than a generation American statesmanship has persistently striven to avoid, ignore or forget an inconsistency in our American institution whose existence is a blot upon our national honor the criminal practice of lynching. Outbreaks like that which held the city of Omaha, Nebraska, in a reign of terror for nine hours, culminating in the felling of one citizen, the serious injury of at least two others, an unsuccessful attempt to lynch the Mayor of the City, and the successful lynching of a prisoner charged with a heinous crime,--are but the eruptive symptoms of a disease which has eaten...
...many more such outbreaks must occur? How much longer must we congratulate ourselves upon "only 62 lynchings" for a given year, before the aroused conscience of the American people, efficiently asserting itself through Federal authority, moves to stamp out this national disgrace...
...years ago a Turkish Ambassador was handed his passports for calling attention to the inconsistency between our national preaching and practice. Never once during the late war did the German press fail to gloat over American atrocities, while now, with the Treaty of Peace not yet signed, our Allies can hardly restrain the accusing finger at our "peculiar American practice of lynching." When it was considered that President Wilson might intervene in Ireland's behalf, it was seriously moved in the English House of Commons that a committee be appointed to investigate and report upon the American institution of lynching...
Those, then, who believe that the treaty represents the final world settlement, should vote for it. Those pygmy-minded "little Americans" who do not feel that this country should underwrite the ambitions of European powers, will vote for the preservation of American independence. C. P. WINSOR...