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...beginning of a situation with the United States similar to that begun with Germany in 1903. It took twelve years for the seed then sown to germinate. Seed may be in the process of sowing at this moment in Switzerland. I hope not, but there is need for great patience on all sides...
...earth would all have more respect for our President if he lived and traveled in a style worthy of the U. S. I have traveled in almost every Latin-American country, and I know that $10 worth of increased prestige for our country can be reaped for every dollar sown in providing better living and traveling quarters for our President and for his Ambassadors in foreign lands. As matters stand, foreigners visit Washington and then go home to tell their countrymen that our President lives like what Sinclair Lewis calls a "babbitt." I have heard "babbitt" picked up and used...
...over three quarters of a century she has been grinding unequal rights of trade and property from the Chinese, and of late years forcing upon them the lucrative opium trade. An aggressive policy in China will merely reap for us a share of the odium of which Britain has sown the seeds. Our marines will be serving foreign interests as much...
...hard, sterile, and overgrown with weeds. Some sections have had no care for over twenty years. Yet some 6,000 species of hardy plants are now growing in the beds, 2,000 are in the cold greenhouse awaiting planting next spring, and over 2,000 species are being sown this winter. The 10,000 species of hardy herbs now listed in the office records include nearly all the species commonly grown and more than half the species known to be in cultivation. The most complete collection of hardy herbs on this continent is now assembled here...
...Shootings are the order of the day through all the Republic. We can cite a number of cases which prove our statements, but we shall refer to only one, that in the city of Leon in the State of Guanajuato, which, for cruel, barbarous, inhuman and unjust treatment, has sown the most profound discontent throughout the republic...