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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...other. That is none of our business. But when blockade methods are so outrageous that they make shudder all that is decent in us, when these methods kill off a couple of hundred of our citizens among a couple of thousands of neutrals, are we merely to sigh and say it's too bad? What are we to do? But the climax comes with the announcement that such methods are not only to be continued, but to be made worse...
...their rights. Of course it is an "unpatriotic act" for an American citizen to assert his privileges as such on the high seas! It would threaten "deplorable injury to our free institutions and drive us into a state of war with Germany" were we to enforce our rights. Therefore, say these indefatigable champions of civilization, let us relinquish them. It would be such a "misfortune to humanity" to have the U. S. A. avenge the murder of its citizens. LAWRENCE B. GEYER...
...Shall it, then, be war? This is for Germany, and not for us, to say. The President has taken the narrowest possible ground. He takes his stand on the sacrifice of 'American ships and of American lives,' although he had formerly taken the broader ground of humanity. He has given Germany the benefit of every doubt; and has scrupulously avoided any appearance of partisanship...
...mind and reducing it to a state of indecision is to draw loose comparisons. All important differences can be made to look like differences of degree. Suppose that it be admitted that the Allied blockade is illegal in this or that particular. Shall we then simply lie back and say that all of the belligerents are equally culpable because they all use illegal means to crush the enemy? It would be exactly as reasonable as though one were to refuse to distinguish between the angry man and the murderer because they both wish evil; or between a covetous...
...Pennsylvania undergraduates have applied for over a hundred seats for Saturday's games, and Dartmouth has reserved over three hundred seats. The University has applied for less than a hundred. Surely Dartmouth's loyalty is not thrice as great as Harvard's. Men cannot say that in the danger of war all other things are cast aside, for the movies and theatres are still popular and well attended...