Word: heralds
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Best general references: President's Message in Congressional Record, p. 204 (Dec. 7, 1895), Boston Herald, Dec. 18, 1895; C. F. Adams in Boston Herald, Jan. 12, 1896; G. S. Boutwell in Boston Herald, Feb. 2, 1896; C. E. Norton, F. S. Woolsey and I. L. Rice in Forum XX pp. 641-651, 705-712, 721-732 (Feb. 1896); Senator Wolcott in Congressional Record, pp. 976-980 (Jan. 22, 1896); "The Real Problem" and "The Venezuelan Correspondence" in Nation LXI pp. 458 and 458-459; and ibid p. 455 (Dec. 26, 1895); "The Venezuelan Commission," ibid LXII...
...President's message is bad as to the substance of the policy laid down for this particular case.- (a) War between England and the United States would be an immeasurable calamity: Boston Herald, Dec. 19, 1895; Blaine, Twenty Years of Congress...
...Policy risks war unnecessarily.- (1) Active interference in the boundary dispute is not demanded by our interests.- (x) Particular territory claimed by Great Britain is of no importance to us. G. S. Boutwell in Boston Herald, Feb. 2, 1896; F. S. Woolsey in Forum XX, 712 (Feb. 1896); O. S. Strauss, ibid, pp. 718-719; C. L. Rice, ibid, 723,- (y) No danger that this case will furnish a precedent for further advances dangerous to us by Great Britain.- (x) This advance (if advance it is) is under a bona fide boundary dispute which existed before the British conquest...
...finding served no purpose.- (x) War could have been threatened after the finding: A. Carnegie in No. Am. Rev. Vol. 162 p. 135 (Feb. 1896).- (2) Threat of war in advance made peacable accommodation more difficult.- (x) Made it harder for England to yield: C. F. Adams in Boston Herald, Jan. 12, 1896; Harper's Weekly, Dec. 28, 1895, p. 1232; ibid, Jan. 11, 1896, p. 26; Senator Wolcott in Cong. Rec. p. 980 (Jan. 22, 1896).- (y) Inflamed public opinion: G. S. Boutwell ut supra...
...appointment, it is now announced in staring headlines that there is a "Row at Harvard." As a matter of fact only a very few of the students knew of the result of the election at the time when these words were set up in the office of the Herald. Knowing that some feeling had existed before, the writer left it to be inferred that Harvard students were not sportsmen enough, not gentlemen enough, to sink all differences of opinion that had previously obtained and unite heartily and disinterestedly in support of the man who was finally chosen. This is where...