Word: unrest
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...York Assembly's highest purpose were to encourage unrest and precipitate revolution it could have done no better than to expel the five Socialists. However much we may dislike the principles of Socialism--and however justifiable that dislike may be--to expel lawfully elected men for adhering to those principles is nothing less than a crime against representative government...
...safety of the government is very much endangered by it. The anarchistic movement has steadily grown and the effect that the disemination of this propaganda has had upon the great mass of illiterates in this country is very threatening. Anarchists are taking advantage of the great labor and social unrest in the country today and are working insidiously for the overthrow of the United States government. The present laws only punish a direct act; the incitment to insurrection still remains unpunished. For this purpose--the maintence of the safety of the United States--it is essentially necessary that meaures...
Industrial relations, it is true, can be studied in some more advanced courses but to the vast majority of undergraduates the question is never put. There is need for a more practical side in the teaching of elementary economics courses which will place the facts of industrial unrest in the hands of the ordinary college student, and which will encourage him not only to listen to what others may have to say, but also to think for himself...
When Prince Joachim shied a plate at the head of a member of the French Mission with true Hohenzollern dexterity, he started more than even he expected. With the American Senate trying to squirm away from under world obligations, Great Britain gasping under active and latent industrial unrest, and the Bolshevik government threatening the Polish frontier, the German monarchists could not have picked a better time for their "comeback." France, alone, has been alive to the dangerous situation, but her warnings were only recently branded by President Wilson as imperialistic tendencies...
...other danger springs from the economic disorders and the mental unrest produced by the war. The Government of the United States, if it is to exist at all, must be what it has always been, a government of all the people, and it must be conducted and sustained by the representatives chosen by the people to make the laws of the United States. Nothing could be more fatal to the ordered freedom which is thoroughly American in its conception and purpose than to have any organization of a minority of the people or of some particular occupation or class undertake...