Word: faiths
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...main value of retaliation is to lessen injuries by discouraging them. But a war aiming to defend American lives or to establish international law seems valueless to me because I think it would defeat its own ends. Another use of retaliation is to win prestige. I myself put faith in other expedients than war to gain a less precarious and less costly prestige. But war can be strongly argued on the ground of prestige and also on the premise that the Allies cause is our cause. To wage war as a point of honor, however, seems...
...unable to agree. They call the proposed system "compulsory" instead of "universal" military service--and declare that it will be undemocratic and un-Christian because it involves the compulsion of conscience. Yet they admit that the proposed law will provide for conscientious scruples. Surely they do not put much faith in our ability to administer the law justly, and surely they do not consider that we shall be so busy organizing and training the millions who will be willing to learn to fight for their country that we, unlike England today, can easily spare those who have honest convictions opposed...
...person should consider the adoption of universal military service in its light. President Wilson proposes essentially that the United States be ready to join with the other nations in guaranteeing, among other things, that the world at large be secured against aggression. The question is, can we, in good faith, propose this, and at the same women embark on an entirely new policy of universal service. This obviously looks toward a great increase in our military strength, and the obvious query is, what is it for? We say, and sincerely believe, it is for defense only; but will this...
...even anarchistic," apparently because they raised the question of what would be done with "the 200,000 who would refuse to obey such a law (as the Chamberlain bill) if passed." (Inasmuch as the country today contains well over 100,000 of the Society of Friends alone whose faith forbids them to take up arms it is difficult to see how this estimate of fact was either "socialistic or even anarchistic"). But "pacifists" such anti-conscriptionists doubtless are; "unpatriotic" they will also probably be termed, while it is not unlikely that distinguished authority will apply the opprobrious but hitherto unexplained...
...undergraduates to have in College halls what speakers they will, provided the meetings are open only to members of the University. The Corporation has felt that the students ought to be thinking about the controversies of the day, and has recognized the desirability of allowing persons who in good faith bring a message to be invited by the student organizations, and of allowing the use of unoccupied College rooms for this purpose. Under this broad policy we have had many propagandists: advocates of the initiative and referendum (W. S. U'Ren. December 2, 1912, in Emerson D), the Progressive Party...