Word: proletariats
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...perfect right to agitate for Socialism, Communism, or anything else he pleases, if he proposes to reach his goal through lawfully prescribed legislative action. But when a few thousand radical extremists, most of them non-citizens, plot to overthrow the government and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat through murder and direct action, they will find against them 99 percent of the American people, solidified by a common will for law and order...
...Food," he said, "is the one matter of vital importance to Europe. It is indeed reaching the continental countries at present, but it is doubtful whether it is yet arriving in quantities sufficient to arrest the spread of the dictatorship of the proletariat. The American people must be made to realize that the infant republics of Europe are in the dire need of our aid, and that far from the armistice and treaty having brought about the success of the cause for which we were struggling, they rather added to the responsibilities of the Allies and particularly of America...
Social service brings him directly into contact with the industrial world. He comes to know, through practical experience, the mode of life and the problems of what might be called the proletariat. The world in its perplexed state is sorely in need of men with understanding, with broad views, with experience and knowledge of labor problems. There is nothing so effective to promote this end as Social Service...
...already. However, much opinions may differ on the prohibition amendment, the mass of people will raise against any attempt to curb the use of tobacco. That prehensile-nosed organization, the W. C. T. U. will meddle in other people's business once too often; and the heckled, down-trodden proletariat will, with starting abruptness, proceed to clean house. The disembodied a spirit of the W. C. T. U. floating around in interstellar space, where there is no tobacco smoke, will have time to reflect on the fact that the American people are like a buzz-saw. One cannot "monkey" with...
...this able, forceful, enthusiastic international radical in the capacity of Minister of Foreign Affairs, without a shred of patriotism, with no love either for Russia or for Germany, has tried to stop the war on the east by methods which are likely to be highly disastrous to the Russian proletariat, and to prolong instead of shorten the war. Trotsky may not be pro-German, but neither is he pro-Russian. Such a leader can never build up a new Russian nation. Kerensky was making an honest effort to do so, by getting all parties to work together. The task...