Word: war
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...United States, which has been only half aware that there was any Venezuela question, has suddenly been startled by an ultimate demand made upon the country with which we have the closest ties of interest and sympathy, and this coupled with an explicit threat of war. To warn the men of this University that any discussion or criticism of this position of our government can spring only from the lowest motives, and must instantly stop, involves such a novel idea of popular government and such a singular conception of patriotism that serious argument about it is almost impossible. For three...
...place in international law, or is it simply an assertion which we offer to make good by force; is the Venezuela incident such a menace to our interest as calls for the assertion of it; if so, shall it be asserted to the point of war or only so far as to prevent an implied surrender of it; does it involve the corrolary now asserted by our government, that "today the United States is practically sovereign on the continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confirms its interposition;" does it involve the position, also asserted...
Friday, April 3. Mr. John C. Ropes. Harvard in the Civil War...
Nothing will tend more to preserve peace on this continent than the resolute assertion of the Monroe Doctrine; let us make this present case serve as an object lesson, once for all. Nothing will more certainly in the end produce war than to invite European aggressions on American states by abject surrender of our principles. By a combination of indifference on the part of most of our people, a spirit of eager servility toward England in another smaller portion, and a base desire to avoid the slightest financial loss even at the cost of the loss of national honor...
...stock-jobbing timidity, the Baboo kind of statemanship, which is clamored for at this moment by the men who put monetary gain before national honor, or who are still intellectually in a state of colonial dependence on England, would in the end most assuredly invite war. A temperate but resolute insistence upon our rights is the surest way to secure peace. If Harvard men wish peace with honor they will heartily support the national executive and national legislature in the Venezuela matter; will demand that our representatives insist upon the strictest application of the Monroe Doctrine; and will farther demand...