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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Best general references: Nation, LIV, 44 (Jan. 21, 1892); LXII, 47 (Jan. 16, 1896); LVI, 190-91 (March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/10/1896 | See Source »

...General policy of the United States in the past has been to dispense with a navy: Nation LIV, 44.- (a) Foreign complications have been settled by peaceful methods.- (1) Oregon boundary.- (2) Aiabama claims.- (3) Maximilian trouble.- (4) Behring Sea question...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/10/1896 | See Source »

...Turks? Quite the contrary. They are the original inhabitants of the soil, where they had dwelt for thousands of years before the Turk came with sword and fire to take possession. In character industrious and thrifty, and in moral development in no way inferior to that of more western nations, it is particularly interesting for us to notice that they were the very first nation to embrace Christianity; their king accepting the faith for himself and nobles even before the conversion of the Emperor Constantine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARMENIA AND THE RED CROSS. | 1/14/1896 | See Source »

...habit of respecting persons or office in his expressions of opinion. What now would be think to be the proper attitude of a professor of Law or of History, whose opinion is sure to carry weight, when he sees the President and Congress threatening war against a nation of our own flesh and blood, with whom we have every conceivable interest to live in peace, while war with them would mean putting back human civilization for half a century, and all on account of petty dispute between two nations in which he firmly believes we have no right whatever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 1/10/1896 | See Source »

...press, the pulpit, the market-place and the clubs it can hardly be worth his while to begin with muzzling this University. The plea that the government, right or wrong, must be supported is wholly out of place in this juncture. There are, of course, crises when the nation is engaged in a struggle from which it can not retreat, and then the paramount duty to save the country properly silences private doubts. But it does not follow that whenever the government proposes any position on foreign affairs all criticism shall be dumb, and the nation shall follow docilely into...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 1/9/1896 | See Source »

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