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...Missionary Subjects; Canon Taylor, The Great Missionary Failure, Fortnightly Review, Vol. L (October, 1888); Canon Taylor, Missionary Finance, Fortnightly Review, Vol. L (Nov. 1888); A. H. Atteridge, A Protestant Criticism of Protestant Missions, Dublin Review, 1889, Volume CIV, p. 121; Economic Defects in Christian Missions, Scribner's Monthly, Vol. XX; Missions-New Style, Nation, Vol. LXI, p. 235; Missionary Temptations, Nation...
Best general references: President's Message in Congressional Record, p. 204 (Dec. 7, 1895), Boston Herald, Dec. 18, 1895; C. F. Adams in Boston Herald, Jan. 12, 1896; G. S. Boutwell in Boston Herald, Feb. 2, 1896; C. E. Norton, F. S. Woolsey and I. L. Rice in Forum XX pp. 641-651, 705-712, 721-732 (Feb. 1896); Senator Wolcott in Congressional Record, pp. 976-980 (Jan. 22, 1896); "The Real Problem" and "The Venezuelan Correspondence" in Nation LXI pp. 458 and 458-459; and ibid p. 455 (Dec. 26, 1895); "The Venezuelan Commission," ibid LXII...
...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...
...message was bad in its effects upon future diplomatic policy.- (a) Future relations with American States.- (1) Will tend to place us in an attitude of supervision over them: Boston Herald, Dec. 18, 1895; Nation LXI, pp. 437 (Dec. 19, 1895) and 459 (Dec. 26, 1895); Woolsey in Forum XX p. 712 (Feb. 1890); Rice, ibid, p. 729.- (x) Message is commonly held to imply a broad doctrine of supervision.- (y) A doctrine of this kind, once thought to be enunciated is adhered to and amplified by the people. Monroe Doctrine.- (2) This attitude of supervision is bad.- (x) Will...
...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, LXI, pp. 420-421 (Dec. 12, 1895); and ibid...