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When civil government was introduced, many prominent Americans interested themselves in the Islands. Among the earliest were Dr. Schurman of Cornell, and Chief-Justice Taft, who become the first governor-general. Among the most recent have been W. Cameron Forbes and Major-General Wood, both governors-general. Under the leadership of these men the Islands have prospered, initial steps have been made in sanitation, in manufacturing, shipping, and in foreign trade, and the agricultural and mineral resources of the country have been put to profitable use. These men, too, are as well acquainted with conditions in the Islands...
...president of a great college and a man with world-renown as an educator, Mr. Schurman showed a surprising amount of ignorance in his speech at the Union last night. In the first place, he stated that President Wilson had no right to go to France since the people had repudiated his leadership by electing a Republican majority to the Senate. Since that time, however, it has been proved by the conviction of Senator New-berry that that majority was entirely illegal, and, in reality, it should have been Democratic, thus giving the President all the right in the world...
...well aware of the facts, prevented the acceptance. He then went on to say that the League provided for unequal voting powers since United States had only one vote and the other powers a total of eight. It must be ignorance and not a lack of intelligence, for Dr. Schurman is surely an intelligent man, that gave birth to such a statement, for the covenant definitely states that no act of the council shall be binding without an unanimous vote, that is to say, one vote is equal to eight, and the vote of United States or any other vote...
...other two objections, namely: that the league provides for no court of compulsory arbitration, and that it does not recognize the validity of the Monroe doctrine to a great enough extent, are easily discernible to any clear-minded person who is not befogged with partizanship as Dr. Schurman seems...
...Louis A. Coolidge '83, who will preside at the meeting, will add a few remarks to those of Dr. Schurman. Mr. Coolidge, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under President Roosevelt, is a man well known in national politics. Last summer Mr. Coolidge, who was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, was elected Chairman of the Committee on Arrangements...