Word: war
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...educating a reserve of trained engineers for the time of war there is work for every scientific school in the country. The Naval Academy at Annapolis is either unable or unwilling even to supply existing vacancies on a peace footing. The national defense will never be secure until a systematic method of training our college students shall have been adopted in the universities. There are at least a score of institutions which could aid in carrying on the work now under government auspices. Therefore to formulate a plan whereby the work of West Point and Annapolis can be supplemented, ought...
...Policy risks war unnecessarily.- (1) Active interference in the boundary dispute is not demanded by our interests.- (x) Particular territory claimed by Great Britain is of no importance to us. G. S. Boutwell in Boston Herald, Feb. 2, 1896; F. S. Woolsey in Forum XX, 712 (Feb. 1896); O. S. Strauss, ibid, pp. 718-719; C. L. Rice, ibid, 723,- (y) No danger that this case will furnish a precedent for further advances dangerous to us by Great Britain.- (x) This advance (if advance it is) is under a bona fide boundary dispute which existed before the British conquest...
...President's message is bad as to its manner of laying down the policy for this particular case.- (a) Risk of war is unnecessarily increased.- (1) Threat of war in advance of commission's finding served no purpose.- (x) War could have been threatened after the finding: A. Carnegie in No. Am. Rev. Vol. 162 p. 135 (Feb. 1896).- (2) Threat of war in advance made peacable accommodation more difficult.- (x) Made it harder for England to yield: C. F. Adams in Boston Herald, Jan. 12, 1896; Harper's Weekly, Dec. 28, 1895, p. 1232; ibid...
...President's message was bad in its general effects upon civilization.- (a) It tends to strengthen the war spirit.- (1) Readiness shown to think of war: Nation LXI, p. 458 (Dec. 26, 1895).- (2) General appeal to bellicose feeling: Senator Walcott in Cong. Rec. p. 976 (Jan. 22, 1896).- (b) Tends to pervert standards of national honor and greatness.- (1) Insistance on immediate forcible resistance to "anything like an insult," as a test of national honor: C. E. Norton in Forum XX, p. 649-651 (Feb. 1896); Wm. James in Cong. Rec. p. 461 (Dec. 31, 1895); Nation...
...Love or War." See Truth tomorrow. All news-stands and trains...