Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...been in sequence to what has preceded. The first desire for union was the result of fear of the mother country. Later, came the War of the Rebellion, the greatest war the world has ever seen, and the result was a Union, welded in the white heat of civil combat. This was not planned, it was evolved. The policy of national liberality to those who have built railroads and factories, was of vast importance to the further development of the Union. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have been characterized by contests for territory, but the twentieth century will be characterized...
...presence has been so unwelcome? It is only those lacking in knowledge who do not perceive the answers to both these questions. To begin with, Christianity has nowhere entered peacefully; and missionaries were not the cause of the late troubles in China, for though they did, it is true, combat the key-note of Chinese peculiarities, it was the commercial greed of alien powers and the political influences exerted from without, which in reality created the strong feeling against all foreigners. American missionaries, in fact, have played a most important part in Chinese diplomatic questions, thus rendering invaluable services...
...actual industrial organization in the United States is in large measure a dual organization for combat. Its evils are pervasive, chronic, and always at one's very door. This condition ought to prove transitional and temporary, for real public happiness cannot possibly grow...
...educated men, it is demoralizing to witness wide-spread misery and unhappiness without doing something to remedy such extreme evils. Participation in the industrial combat may occur from any one of three sides--that of the employers, the employed, or the public, including the government...
...Employers should beware how they abridge their own liberty by associating for purposes of combat; they should study and develop in their employees the hope of improving their lot; and as they have more power than the employed to do so, it is their duty to promote stability in any industry...