Word: disregard
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...best interests of our country are peculiarly dependent on the people. We make and enforce our laws. Hence we must be law-abiding. When a body of men loses its respect for law, it endangers the stability of society. Disregard for law, however, is but one of the many manifestations of the underlying spirit of trade unionism--a spirit which seeks to create caste, to create clique interests, to assert the superior importance of trade unions, and to set their interests above the interests of all other parties...
This spirit has also manifested itself by a constant disregard of the fundamental legal rights of freedom of contracts and of personal security. Any supposed good accomplished by trade unionism cannot for a moment outweigh the evils resulting from the subversion of these basal rights...
...conclusion it was shown that the chief significance of this argument is not so much the evidence of disregard for the interests of individuals as the evidence of the existence within our country of an organization which manifests a spirit which seeks to make its rights paramount to the rights of all other parties. Any organization manifesting such a spirit cannot show a tendency other than detrimental to the best interests of our country...
Morton, the second speaker of Harvard in the rebuttal, stated that the labor unions have been willing to arbitrate reasonably; all the best evidence of the authorities show the growth of conciliatory methods. The affirmative has quoted special instances of disregard of the rights of the community; but by these special instances of mistakes the attention of the public has been the more directed to the great question. The negative has shown that trade-unionism has been has shown that trade-unionism has been a great necessity; and that its evils have not been comparable with the evils of other...
...history of unionism, dewelling more upon it than the negative and addressing concert evidence of evil where the negative had merely asserted good. The negative, he said, has been two optimistic in regard to general progress. The affirmative has shown by concrete arguments a general tendency of disregard for the rights of the community