Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...backers of the plan hold that the United States should be liberal to her veterans. Canada, they say, has awarded bonuses averaging $420; but the pay of a Canadian soldier during the war cannot be compared to that of a Yankee doughboy. The Dominion is making a some what tardy retribution for what she probably now considers parsimonious treatment during the war. War time generosity has its advantages; peace time must bring a curtailment of all expenditures. We cannot fool ourselves into believing that the money does not come from our pockets; liberality takes on another aspect when it means...
While the College authorities cannot excuse men in the Constabulary from their appointments, every means will be taken by the Constabulary officials to encourage and make possible the fulfillment of College demands. University men will be permitted, whenever possible, to attend lectures and laboratory periods, and opportunity will be given them to prepare their lessons while on duty in the Mechanics Building. The work is primarily patrol work for eight hours...
...holier than thou" attitude; but when he belittles as foolhardy the man who risked his life in defence of law and order, we can only regret it; and when even by implication he makes out a lynching mob as in any degree less contemptible than their victim, we cannot join issue with him too quickly. SYDNEY FAIRRANKS...
...geographic limits; as the fate of the Mayor of Omaha forcibly reminds us. Hundreds of white men in this country have been victims of lawlessness and mob violence; it was the lynching of a Montana labor leader that called forth President Wilson's utterance of July 26th. It cannot be confined to the South: excluding New England there is not a single section of the Union which has not been the scene of at least one lynching in the past 22 years. The evil is national in range and scope; the nation must provide the remedy...
...link. A doctrine which breaks down at home can hardly be propagated abroad. We have passed the day of the pious slave holder who became so deeply impressed with the plea for foreign missions that he sold one of his slaves to contribute liberally to the cause. If democracy cannot control lawlessness, then democracy is a failure...