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...Crush the weaklings near...
...klan", can spring up in America, and gain power enough to take the law into its own hands, there must be something wrong with the law. Like the Vigilantes which existed in the days of '49, this organization will only die when the state is strong enough to crush it, and punish all crimes as well...
...between England and Ireland has seemed the "summum bonum". To Cromwell after the Irish had rejected (strange to say) the ideas he strove so eloquently to impress on them, it seemed that they were but devils and irreconcilable papists, and that it was his painful but obvious duty to crush them. Yet he was puzzled. So was William before Londonderry--and after. So have been many others, but always down the centuries will ring the names of those who have fought and thought for Ireland Spenser, his fine sensibilities hurt both by the brutality of the people...
...union miners, knowing this, insist that in the new wage contract due on the first of April, they at least retain the 1920 scale; and they are asking even a further increase. The president of the United Mine Workers of America claims that the operators are trying to crush the miners, and that they demand higher prices for coal using the strike as an excuse. He has consequently called a strike for the first of April and Gompers has offered the support of the American Federation of Labor...
...cannot crush the creative instincts of men. They are bound to get it in their pleasure or leisure hours, and it is a question whether they are going to get it by the cheap, false, artificial motion-picture, or through the more elevated medium of the drama...