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...Dishonest...
...artificially changing the voting population." To permit a plebiscite to be held would be, in Peruvian eyes, to "transform the Treaty [Treaty of Ancon] providing for temporary administration into a unilateral annexation; it would in time of peace constitute a conquest without precedent; it would be a shameful and dishonest conquest because it would have been done by deception and fraud." The history of the Tacna-Arica dispute starts from the peace settlement of the Chile-Peruvian...
...Accustomed to the dissipations of years of destruction, temperate men have become gluttonous, calm men avid, honest men robbers and even the best of men dishonest. Usury and appropriation is practiced under the name of business, and under the insignia of large industry a small group is engaged in.pirating against the public. . . . The ostentation of the rich has convinced everybody that nothing counts in this Heaven- estranged earth but money and what can be bought and wasted with money...
Besides the 5,000,000 honest illiterates, there were 5,000,000 '' proud " or " dishonest " ones, who refused to admit their deficiency.* Researches carefully backtracked the Federal statistics into States and localities, there also discovering about 10,000,000 near-illiterates-a grand total of 20,000,000 ignorami. This is: more than half the population of France, more than all the Mexicans in the world, more than all the inhabitants of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland and Scotland combined...
...having any repentance today, and refused to have him respect her, so they quarreled and parted. Meantime Mr. Trimble named Tiny as a co-respondent and Poor George now did his best to win his beloved-he was even willing to sacrifice himself to make her a dishonest woman if she'd agree-but just then Miller Huggins stepped in and pled with her to make it up with Tiny for the sake of the Yankees and Tiny wired that he'd do his best not respect her if she came along. So she went down...