Word: question
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Neither of his letters makes any definite statement, save that he is not surprised--an assertion with which I have no quarrel; he only implies by turns (a) that a lynching mob should not be punished by law, (b) that, apart from the question of whether they should be punished or not, they are normal citizens, acting from good motives. Both these doctrines seemed to me too mischievous to pass unchallenged; and I attacked them with arguments which he gives no sign of having read, and certainly has not answered. But when I read in his second letter...
Today, the race question faces the American people as a living and vital issue. It must be settled and settled once for all. Two road lie before us, one to justice and freedom, the other to slavery and bondage for the colored man. The negro stands before you, asking you to decide what you are going to do. He asks no favors because he is a negro, but only for justice because he is a man and an American. Is he going to get it or not? JOHN W. FREEMAN...
...list of the Harvard University Press, to be ready for sale on November 15, are three new books by members of the University Faculty. The first of these, "The Italian Emigration of Our Times," by Robert F. Foerster '06, Professor of Social Ethics at the University, considers the emigration question from the Italian point of view, investigates both the causes of the recent great migration from Italy and its effect on the countries which it strikes. He gives especial consideration to the Italian in this country and outlines a general emigration policy for Italy and other countries...
...admitted that improvements must be effected in the living quarters, length of work and pay of the police force. In the army it is the duty of an officer to watch out for the comfort of the men under him; in the police force the officers have ignored the question of satisfaction among the men with their work and their surroundings. That the demands of the striking policemen were justified is shown by the fact that new men are being taken on the force under an agreement which fulfils practically all of the strikers' requirements...
...Washington comes none too soon. It sees labor, Capital, and the Public gathered together to solve ourdemoralizing problem. The public's representation is highly significant. It is given a chance for protection against further absurd Capital and Labor relationships. Reduction in wage and price is out of the question. But an increase must not be. This is what the public must demand. At most there can only be a gradual adjustment to the present scale of wage and price. Retracing steps to the former standard of living would provoke a greater strain on society than adjustment to the present. Some...