Word: mr
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...allowed to voice concurrence in most of Mr. Carver's statements...
...Bolshevism cannot be checked by argument," says Mr. Carver. He is right. It can't. And the inference is that the only other way is to kill it with clubs and guns. But Mr. Carver doesn't advocate that, for he says "If . . . the principles of peace triumph, civilization will advance." He means, of course, that we have done well to give up our attempt to smash a new system of government with guns; we should try the methods of peace and understanding, that we may not drift "toward another Dark...
...Mr. Carver also says, a little higher, "The only way to combat the direct reactionist (sic) is to demonstrate to him that there is more force on the side of law" etc. Meaning, one demonstrates that one is right by having over-bearing physical force on one's side. Right, naturally, is on the side of the bigger club, just as in the good old days of the cave men. Are we to have cave-man morality or the principles of peace? Mr. Carver wants both...
...should like heartily to underline Mr. Carver's division of mankind into goats and sheep: "First, those who wish to secure wealth by making men afraid to refuse it to them; second, those who work for prosperity by making themselves useful, helpful and indispensable." The first, of course, being the group of men which controls the minds of the people by owning the factories in which the people work, by owning and directing the newspapers which the people read, and by directing mounted soldiers (the Russians call such soldiers Cossacks) to intimidate and cast fear into the heart...
...Mr. Plumb's exposition in Phillips Brooks House yesterday of his railroad plan met with deserved approval. We congratulate Mr. Plumb upon the success of an excellent stump speech. Aside from a few well-worn jibes at "Wall Street journals" and "Capitalists," his explanation was moderate and in very good taste. But Mr. Plumb's project, stripped of his personality, remains as impracticable as ever...