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Moreover, it is impossible for the government to carry out its proposed financial reorganization--the most important provision of which is the abolition of the odious Liking (internal customs duties)--when it must cater to just those authorities which owe their luxurious positions to them. During the period of weak Central Government these duties have increased to an enormous extent, and they are now paralyzing all the agencies of law, order and prosperity in the country...
Comparisons are odious but one cannot help think of what would have happened under similar conditions in 1870-71, or what did happen in 1914, when whole villages were razed because of one or two Belgian snipers. Perhaps this difference arises from the fact that the Germans are trying their own offending countrymen--a thing almost unheard of in connection with war, until now--and that the German mind, when it sees itself defeated, invariably turns to self-palliation and vague excuses. Perhaps the difference is one of inborn moral sense; the Germans may never be able to realize that...
...team will find support from Harvard men only when it has a chance of winning. Least of all does one expect that undergraduates will not only lessen their cheering as the game goes against the Crimson but will also either leave the stands or hoot their team. Comparisons are odious--the following one should be odious enough to bring out the point: when the Yale football team returned from its defeat at the hands of Princeton last fall it was met at the station, in a pouring rain, by as large a crowd of students as had ever turned...
...designate as pacifists all those men who are opposed to compulsory military training, we are beginning a glorification of the word "pacifism," a word odious to most Americans during the war. In this category of 'pacifists" we would then be obliged to put such men as Colonel Logan and Major-General Sherburne--they are opposed to military training. We think those gentlemen would resent such implication. Certainly their friends would...
...three of these gentlemen seem to be making the same serious blunder. Apparently they all consider the terms "militarism" and "universal military training" as synonymous. Because the former is deservedly odious and vicious, they conclude that the latter is odious...