Word: nationalities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Experience shows that those cities which have a property qualification are better governed than those which have an unrestricted suffrage. Nation, xxxiv, 245, 267 (Mar. 23, 30, 1882); Shaw: Municipal Government in Great Britain, 45, 77; New Review, 11, 74, 499 (July, Nov., 1894); Forum, 17, 659 (Aug., 1894). - (a) Municipal government in the United States is extravagant, inefficient and corrupt. - (b) European cities, having property qualification are economically and efficiently governed...
...battle ground for China and Japan, and she has received slight consideration from either. For three hundred years the Coreans have paid tribute to China and Japan. In 1875 the Japanese acknowledged Corea's independence, and it has since been a kind of "Monroe Doctrine" that no other nation should control her future. This was one of the strongest motives in the war. Other causes were the maintenance of her commerce and the traditional enmity to China; but the desire to hold the balance of power in the east was sure to bring about war sometime...
...could never have carried on a campaign in China. The Chinese had not the mechanical turn required for the modern warships. They are not essentially seamen like the Japanese. China is divided into provinces differing from one another in speech and manners. In fact, there is no Chinese nation. Add to this lack of homogeneity and cooperation a total lack of discipline, and you have a hopeless condition of affairs...
...hardly be doubted that national spirit is kept up by the soldiers and sailors in our country's service. It is they who spend their lives beneath the flag. That national spirit means more than a blind worship of the flag with us. When the band is assembled upon our flagships in China to play the national air as our flag is unfurled to the morning sun, every sailor's heart grows warm and sometimes his eyes grow dim, not because that flag represents a nation, but because justice and liberty, peace and rest, the purity and sacredness...
This brings us to recent times and the events which precipitated war. We can readily understand Japan's policy. It was a kind of "Monroe Doctrine" that no other nation should control the future of Corea. Here we have the strongest motive in the war. There are other causes, such as the maintenance of her commerce and the traditional enmity to China; but the desire to hold the balance of power in the east is undoubtedly a certain cause of war ultimately. Certain party conditions in Japan undoubtedly have made war necessary. The party in power had to justify itself...