Word: widespread
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Perhaps the most important mistake of the trade unions is the failure to recognize that widespread increase of production of the commodities of life is beneficial and should be encouraged instead of restricted. Another fallacy is the belief that money invested is not used for the public good as it would be if spent in the construction of a steam engine or a tenement house. The money might be better employed, it is true, but nevertheless it is increasing the working capital
...House Committee has had brought to its attention several cases of men who have been using the Union although not members. That an abuse of this sort is fairly widespread there can be no doubt, for the means taken to exclude non members are entirely inadequate. The question as to whether or not more stringent means should be adopted has been much discussed, but the inconvenience to regular members of a careful police system has outweighed, in the minds of the committee, the importance of trying to find out who all these offenders...
...this too great simplicity of religion which was responsible for the decadence of Mohammedanism. The Christian religion entertained a great hope for the development and benefit of the race, while the Allah of the Arabs was a stationary God. To the expansive quality of Christianity was due its widespread growth...
...widespread protest in this country at the present moment against the practices of the British government might thus materially assist the efforts of fair-minded Englishmen like Lehman, just as two years ago the world wide protest against the French government helped Zola and Picquart. Can not Harvard men then give some more deliberate and formal expression to those opinions which twice within the past fortnight have so strikingly revealed themselves...
Owing to the widespread desire to express in some appropriate manner the public appreciation of Roger Wolcott and to perpetuate his memory, a movement has been started to raise a fund by public subscription for the erection of a statue or some other memorial. This memorial would be placed at or in the State House, or in some other public place in Boston...