Word: howes
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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If we should have war tomorrow the biggest problem confronting this country would not be that of getting men or uniforms or rifles or machine guns. Our industries are today better organized for the production of equipment and munitions than they have been for 50 years. The most acute problem...
How admirably does Mr. Cecil H. Smith sum up the situation when, in speaking for the Union, he says: "What we stand for, above all, is a democratic and enlightened method of deciding whether war or peace is our duty. What we are fighting against are the Prussian methods and...
The fact is that the CRIMSON is not doing its own thinking; it is merely reflecting manufactured opinion that already has millions of the sons of men destroying one another. It is overcome by the "tinsel and braggadocio" of marching armies and booming navies. Here is a fine illustration of...
Finally, we are told that "democracy demands a general referendum before a declaration of war." And what is to happen to us while the referendum vote is being taken? In the present controversy Germany could continue to kill our people, to sink our ships, could send submarines into our harbors...
We can sit back and blandly tell ourselves that we are acting for humanity when we do nothing, that we have been calm, deliberate and judicious, that we avoided creating a scene and did not give an unpleasant exhibition of temper. And in later years we can tell our children...