Fear God and Take Your Own PartGeorge H. Doran Company, 1916 - 400 pages "This book is based primarily upon, and mainly consists of, matter contained in articles [published] ... in the Metropolitan magazine during the past fourteen months. It also contains or is based upon an article contributed to the Wheeler Syndicate, a paper submitted to the American Sociological Congress and one or two speeches and public statements. In addition there is much new matter."--Introductory note. |
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... French . Many hundreds of Americans were among the passengers and a couple of hundred of these , including many women and children , were killed . The total deaths on these ships since March last amount to between 2,000 and 2,100 . The ...
... French . Many hundreds of Americans were among the passengers and a couple of hundred of these , including many women and children , were killed . The total deaths on these ships since March last amount to between 2,000 and 2,100 . The ...
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... French patriots against the Germany of the Hohenzol- lerns . To oppose England now because in 1776 we fought England is as foolish and wicked as it would be now to oppose Germany because in that same Revolutionary War masses of German ...
... French patriots against the Germany of the Hohenzol- lerns . To oppose England now because in 1776 we fought England is as foolish and wicked as it would be now to oppose Germany because in that same Revolutionary War masses of German ...
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... French- men are not only a gallant but a generous race ; and France realizes that England and Russia are now both bearing their share of the burden in the same spirit that France herself has shown . Russia's sufferings have been sore ...
... French- men are not only a gallant but a generous race ; and France realizes that England and Russia are now both bearing their share of the burden in the same spirit that France herself has shown . Russia's sufferings have been sore ...
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... French Aviation Corps surpasses in number the total strength of the officers and enlisted men in the United States Army ? As regards the army- strict economy should at once be introduced , and , as a preliminary , all useless army posts ...
... French Aviation Corps surpasses in number the total strength of the officers and enlisted men in the United States Army ? As regards the army- strict economy should at once be introduced , and , as a preliminary , all useless army posts ...
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... French , Irish , Italian , Scandinavian , Magyar and Sla- vonic descent ; but all are Americans entitled to be treated as such , and claiming to be nothing else . I as emphatically condemn opposition to a good American who happens to be ...
... French , Irish , Italian , Scandinavian , Magyar and Sla- vonic descent ; but all are Americans entitled to be treated as such , and claiming to be nothing else . I as emphatically condemn opposition to a good American who happens to be ...
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Page viii - Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet! Our God is marching on. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Page 152 - Convention does not apply in this case, because of the "general participation" clause in Article 2 of the Hague Convention of 1907. That clause provided: "The provisions contained in the regulations (rules of land warfare) referred to in Article 1 as well as in the present convention do not apply except between contracting powers, and then only if all the belligerents are parties to the convention.
Page 277 - Sovereignty has its duties as well as its rights, and none of these local governments, even if administered with more regard to the just demands of other nations than they have been, would be permitted in a spirit of Eastern isolation to close the gates of intercourse on the great highways of the world and justify the act by the pretension that these avenues of trade and travel belong to them and that they choose to shut them, or, what is almost equivalent, to encumber them with such unjust relations...
Page 121 - This task of championing the integrity of neutral rights, which have received the sanction of the civilized world against the lawless conduct of belligerents arising out of the bitterness of the great conflict which is now wasting the countries of Europe, the United States unhesitatingly assumes, and to the accomplishment of that task it will devote its energies...
Page vii - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He has loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword; His truth is marching on.
Page 152 - A neutral Power is not bound to prevent the export or transit, for the use of either belligerent, of arms, ammunition, or, in general, of anything which could be of use to an army or fleet.
Page 370 - ... welcome the German or the Irishman who becomes an American. We have no use for the German or Irishman who remains such. We do not wish German-Americans and Irish-Americans who figure as such in our social and political life; we want only Americans, and, provided they are such, we do not care whether they are of native or of Irish or of German ancestry. We have no room in any healthy American community for a GermanAmerican vote or an Irish-American vote, and it is contemptible demagogy to put...
Page 277 - From this treaty it can not be supposed that New Granada invited" the United States to become a party to the intestine troubles of that government, nor did the United States become bound to take sides in the domestic broils of New Granada. The United States did guarantee New Granada in the sovereignty and property over the territory. This was as against other and foreign governments.
Page 78 - If there be a people on earth whose more especial duty it is to be at all times prepared to defend the rights with which they are blessed, and to surpass all others in sustaining the necessary burthens, and in submitting to sacrifices to make such preparations, it is undoubtedly the people of these States.
Page 316 - If one of the contracting parties should be engaged in war with any other power, the free intercourse and commerce of the subjects or citizens of the party remaining neutral with the belligerent powers shall not be interrupted. On the contrary, in that case, as in full peace, the vessels of the neutral party may navigate freely to and from the ports and on the coasts of the belligerent parties, free vessels making free goods...