Word: turmoil
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...talking of social unrest the President hits the nail on the head when he says that it is caused by the continued state of war; by the fact that peace is still in abeyance. Nothing that the President has said is truer than that the causes of the present turmoil "are superficial rather than deep-seated," and that the ratification of the Treaty will remove many of those causes...
...Senators can wave the American flag and shout their Fourth of July oratory till they are black in the face; actions speak louder than words. Over all the turmoil there is still audible the faint flapping noise of the Prussian eagle's wings. The German's can be excused. They are Germans. The Senators, however, will find that they will have some quick explaining to do at the next elections before the American people will excuse them...
That the nation cannot go on for a prolonged period in the present turmoil of strikes is clear. The whole public cannot be made to suffer continually for the interests of any one group; something must be done to remedy these evils. What must be done is the question on which all classes of society are pondering. Giving in to the strikers at every occasion will not solve it. Recent events show only too clearly that the more the strikers get, the more they want. Crushing the strikes once they start appears clearly impossible due to the high organization...
America needs the steadying influence derived from a democratic form of universal military training. In the present times of internal turmoil and disorder the advantages of such a policy are brought home to us with unusual force. What more effective way is there to inculcate in alien citizens the responsibilities of American citizenship than by giving them a period of service in a democratic army? General Pershing, appearing before the Joint Military Committee of Congress, said "Universal training is in a sense a school for citizenship. . . the necessity of this is evidenced by the fact that over thirty...
Amending the treaty is a theoretical but impractical solution of this great problem. Doing so would, in the end, lead to inevitable turmoil. For, once the United States began offering reservations, other nations would follow suit; and then the whole affair would be amended out of its original conception...