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...Spargo is one of the foremost socialists of the world, being on the National Committee of the Socialist Society and many times a delegate to its conventions. His life has been an extraordinary one. He joined the socialist movement when 18 years old in England, but violently opposing the Boer War, he came to the United States in 1901. Since that time he has devoted his entire life to the field of sociology. Mr. Spargo has written many books on socialism, many of which are used as text-books in courses of social ethics in the University. Among these...
...Speakers' Club last night. In confirmation of this he called attention to the fact that in spite of the popular conception of the high civilization of the twentieth century there have been since 1900 no less than six wars that involved European nations on a large scale: The Boer War; the Russo-Japanese; the Italian-Turkish; the two struggles in the Balkans; and the present conflict...
...first in which the institutions of the United States had been thoroughly discussed from the point of view of a historian and a constitutional lawyer. After a visit to South Africa in 1897, he published a volume of "Impressions" of that country, which carried great weight when the Boer War was being discussed. In his early life he was a notable mountain-climber, ascending Mount Ararat in 1876; and, later, was author of a book on mountain climbing...
...from the point of view of the results of a ship-subsidy system to our navy. Under such a system, fast lines and freight routes would provide ample auxiliaries in time of war. By subsidies our navy would be rendered efficient. Also, when it is considered that in the Boer War we lost $30,000,000 through withdrawals of British carriers from trade, the danger from a war between two foreign nations at present doing our carrying can be imagined. Furthermore, there is a direct financial benefit to be derived from the adoption of a subsidy policy, for by such...
...employs so many men was shown to have no relation to the economic question in hand. The employment of too many soldiers is also a great evil, because it prevents these men from being productive laborers and makes them consumers of public money. By the example of the Civil, Boer, Crimean, and Napoleonic Wars, conditions are proved to be at least as bad, if not worse, after a war as during it, disproving the theory that one nation gains commercial advantages by destroying the trade of another...