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Machine rule has not only lost its adjustment function, but also has suffered from a changed temperament of the times, "Marx continues. This "changed temperament" is the "rapid evaporation of non-interventionist illusions of government" and the "Conservationist tendencies supplanting the carefree indifference toward social squandering...
Your reprint of the Yale "News" editorial, Isolation and Peace, was valuable, because it brought out the three main points upon which high-handed Interventionist policies rest. These are, that America cannot isolate herself from the rest of the world, and so if a European war starts we are sure to go in; therefore we might as well enter such a conflict at the earliest opportunity; and finally, that the "people," being the most warlike group in the nation, should not be trusted with the responsibility of deciding whether to fight or not fight...
...would probably bring a vote for war. Possibly such would be the outcome; but who can be more surely depended upon to keep us out of war than the mass of the voters? Still, as in 1917, they are the most pacific group in the nation after months of interventionist propaganda. Can we rely on the President after his disregard of the neutrality laws, after his Chicago speech, after the tone of his representations to Japan in the "Panay" incident? Or can we rely on the Diplomatic Service, as notoriously Anglophile as the intellectuals in the Harvard Government Department...
Last week an able Manhattan non-interventionist, Dr. Julius Arky Haiman, told the Yorkville Medical Society, of which he is president, a simple system by which physicians and even patients can correctly diagnose an operable sinusitis. Said Dr. Haiman: "If the membranes and sinuses of the nose are thickened and reddened, this is a true sinusitis or chronic infection, and may require drainage. If, however, the membranes and sinuses are blanched they are simply water-logged as a result of vasomotor disturbances." Such disturbances, said Dr. Haiman, may usually be cleared up by changing the diet, taking certain drugs, avoiding...
...Russian Government is always preaching war and preparedness, pretending that some unnamed enemy is meditating an attack. Their Government lawyers at the recent interventionist trial in Moscow had the brazen impudence to contend that the British General Staff was planning to attack Russia...