Word: wars
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...exception, no opening wedge. There is many a better pretext for taking land than an unpaid claim. For the principle of seizing land in payment of money claims is absolutely unjustified by the precedents of civilized nations. In the cases the affirmative have cited land was seized by war, not by the award of an arbitration of tribunal. If we allow the seizure of land in the case of an unpaid debt, we throw open to Europe a continent that has been closed for eighty years, and our policy becomes wavering, indefinite, and inconsistent...
...there is a danger to be contemplated by the United States under the presuppositions of our question. It is the danger of an immediate and unjust war with the European nation with whose just and legal rights the negative is arguing that the United States interfere. In 1896 we were in imminent danger of war with England when we merely insisted upon arbitration. Under our facts tonight the arbitration has taken place. The European government has chosen a legal and precedented method of satisfying its arbitrated claims. It would resent an unjustifiable interference on our part with its full naval...
...statesman like; that it means an abandonment of a policy which we have shown a right to maintain; that it would subvert rather than further the cause of arbitration; that it would involve injustice and oppression toward the South American republics; that in every case it means actual war. It has been further shown that the very money award may be collected without actual war; that no nation should take this expensive method of satisfying a debt unless the land were desired for an entering wedge and lastly that the practical difficulties and serious consequences would be so great...
...opening the rebuttal for the negative, said that we have interfered in the past. Would any nation risk a war to collect a few paltry dollars which it could collect in many other ways? In replay to the isolation of the territory seized, we say that not only England but all the European powers would obtain footholds and we would soon see the extinction of the republics. If one nation retains land others will; and so the land in South America will all be acquired by European nations with danger to the United States...
...Warren's Profession," by Walton, Atwater Green, the mild satire is skilfully managed and the whole idea is worked out with considerable humor. Quite as good in a different way is "Out of the Cucumber Vines," by E. R. Little, a tale of the war times, brightened by a number of keen little descriptive passages. "What Came out of the Peach Stone," by Alanson Roger Merrill, is a rather humorous combination of a mediaeval point of view with modern narrative style and ideas...