Word: states
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...election is interesting not because the vote of a Democrat or a Republican or a Socialist more or less will have any effect upon the legislation of the Senate, but because it will indicate the change, or lack of change, in sentiment in that hitherto pacifistic state. More than half the representatives from Wisconsin voted against declaring war last April and the legislature has only been induced after the lapse of a year to censure the notoriously disloyal La Follette. While the majority of the press and public men have since come out in support of the Government...
...present war situation and expressed his conviction of the need for immediate and active military training for all American boys between 19 and 21 years of age. Colonel Roosevelt, who leaves Boston this morning for Oyster Bay, arrived yesterday from Portland, Me., where he had spoken at the State Republican Convention Thursday night. While stating that he firmly believed that still more universal and intensive military training should be given young men of college age, he did not propose that young men should enter the army till after attending special training camps. The age at which they should be allowed...
...reason for our overemphasis of such a philosophy in, let us say, America, is, I believe, an extreme and shocked reaction away from the opposite extreme of a purely materialistic interpretation of history which would rob us of God and a despotically socialist state which would deprive us of all freedom...
...avert accusations of heresy or originality permit me to add that my source-book is a very conservative and churchmanly volume, to wit, the well-known Bible--which attributes to divine command "so crassly materialistic" our exercise of the state's police power as the institution of the Sabbath and "so brazenly political" a measure as the repropriation of citizen farmers every half century. And as to the separation of powers between Caesar and God, I have the authority of some eminent residents of Divinity Hall for no longer taking that injunction literally...
...third obstacle is an inadequate belief in the reality of the state. Our theory of government has made it easy for us to forget that such a thing as the state exists. Many people in this country as in Europe have been surprised by their own feelings of patriotism. We have looked on these feelings with some suspicion. What we want to do is to bolster them up with adequate reasons. We must attempt to make vivid what the state means to its citizens...