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Over the causeways of history there stalks a giant figure--ever young, alert and bright-eyed. He is the Pioneer who has made history mean progress instead of a chronicle. Empires have been built, because he swept out over far seas, while statesmen stayed at home. Inventions and new ideas have been inaugurated, because the Pioneer dared and struggled against odds...
...Republicans who put their hopes in Roosevelt have had a discouraging experience which has undoubtedly caused a great many of them to lose heart. Within the Republican party, the reactionary forces, represented by such men as Penrose, Lodge and Barnes, are completely victorious. These men are sincere and able statesmen. They are sincerely afraid of "mobs" and they sincerely believe in the divine right...
Each speaker will be allowed five minutes, or more at the discretion of those present. The aim of the Forum is to determine the most logical choice of a candidate among the nationally prominent statesmen under consideration for the office of chief executive. For this reason a vote will be taken to decide the result of the discussion. Those who have to leave early may give their votes to the tellers who will be stationed at the door...
...beginning of this war Americans felt that it was the price of the Balance of Power theory and the militarist policy of Europe in general and Prussia in particular. American ideals were not at all on that European plane, and yet today we see statesmen, business men and University leaders in full retreat for that precise European method of force, of piled up armaments and of an international power-magazine liable to instant explosion at the first spark. For America to resort to such European methods is to confess openly, as Lord Roseberry sees, that American aims and standards...
...statesmen at Washington are now at work on plans for national defense, but they are not the only ones able to help in this problem. Within the precincts of the University lies an opportunity for aiding the government. The conduct of war with its recent developments is largely an economic and financial problem of which the military side is merely incidental. Glaringly evident is the significance of intellectual effort on the part of officers in a modern army...