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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...reaction toward this new situation? In all of his speeches I find not one single original idea on this subject, not one single illuminating contribution to this most vital topic of the world's thought. What we had a right to hope for was a leader who could tell us something of the great part our people ought to play in this new, throbbing world, something of the debt we owe mankind for our prosperity. Has Hughes been such a leader? On the contrary, he has shown himself to be only the old-time conventional campaigner, bent on "making...
...same conception of rights has kept Mr. Hughes from helping us formulate a policy in regard to the European war. The sum total of Mr. Whittlesey's argument is that we would have obtained our pledge from Germany a little sooner under Mr. Hughes, and that we will succeed in "gaining fair treatment from England for our mails and cargoes." Just how, he neglects to state, but since we have already done everything but use force, economic or military, the intimation is that Mr. Hughes will do that! What a cheerful prospect this coercion of England for those of us...
...reference to the Adamson Bill Mr. Palue excuses "legislation before inves- tigation," only on the ground that investigation can not tell us as much as experience can. Now if we cannot anticipate experience with accurate investigation of present conditions and thus both evede disasters and select our lines of progress, the whole modern idea of enlisting experts for the scientific study of national economic problems may as well go to the floor and the nation rub on as best it may in hit-or-miss fashion. Why look before you leap when that means "belogging and postponing the issue"? Nations...
...Mexicans to "rid themselves" of oppression, etc., has seemed rather more like a policy of unwarrantable and secretly conducted interference, to the end of destroying the only hope of stable government that Mexico possessed, of plunging her into the years of anarchy that followed and enraging her against us. "To have intervened would have meant the armed occupation of Mexico," Mr. Paine says. Not to have intervened has meant, we reply, the killing of hundreds of Mexicans, the loss of several of our soldiers, to say nothing of that world-wide disgrace and ridicule which the administration is too brave...
Finally, Mr. Paine's idea that we could not have insisted on our rights at the time the Lusitania was sunk without causing war, because Germany was ready to defy us, is immediately refuted by his following statement that Germany has later respected them. It is unfortunate that this time the Democrats cannot "both eat their cake and have it too." If Germany had been so ready to defy us, she wouldn't have yielded up her profitable submarine campaign. Her final yielding, however, which was due more to respect for the power of the aroused American people than...