Word: answer
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Spading has misunderstood me. And as the CRIMSON entitles his letter "A Good Answer," I dare infer that others have also...
...Boston Transcript in its Thursday night's issue asked a fair question which is entitled to a fair answer. After quoting at some length Mr. Harold I. Laski's remarks to the Boston Policemen's Union in Fay Hall Wednesday night, as reported in the Boston Post, the Transcript says editorially...
...gives the laborer a voice in the control of his means of livlihood, and also claims he has in other ways satisfactorily solved many of the present-day labor difficulties. At the meeting today Mr. Plumb will try to answer the many objections that have been raised to his proposition and will emphasize its good points...
...freedom of the individual is being sadly restricted these days. The drift of the government towards paternalism gives rise to the query, "Is there any limit to the control of government over private affairs?' The only reasonable answer is that control has gone far enough already. However, much opinions may differ on the prohibition amendment, the mass of people will raise against any attempt to curb the use of tobacco. That prehensile-nosed organization, the W. C. T. U. will meddle in other people's business once too often; and the heckled, down-trodden proletariat will, with starting abruptness, proceed...
Certainly the rest of the letter adopts a very different tone. "Mobs will be mobs" it says in effect. "The writer does not apologize for the outbreak, but merely attempts to explain it cause. . . . only to be expected . . . . who can answer for . . . . No wonder . . . ." Moral censure is certainly an ugly thing, and one likes to see it deprecated; but such deprecation to be effective should be consistent. If Mr. Rosenblatt writes in this truly Christian spirit of the lynching, then the least he can say of the original assault is that criminals will be criminals; that, in view...