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Book/Printed MaterialImage 41 of America and her problems, 17 age to this vast enterprise, the realization of which would not cost very much if the expense were divided among forty-seven Powers and spread over ten or twenty years.1 1 France-Améque...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 42 of America and her problems, 18 innovators. There is, for instance, the Albert Kahn foundation. When, however, the holders of these traveling scholarships return, to France, the Ministry of Public Instruction usually treats them as if they...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 43 of America and her problems, 19 magnificent city, are an impressive sight. They are preeminently national monuments. The fact remains, however, that in a country with a future, and in a land of education such as this,...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 44 of America and her problems, 20 If we look back to the way in which France was formerly represented, in the Chevalier d'Eon's day, for instance, we shall find that our diplomatists have no reason to complain...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 45 of America and her problems, 21 Paris and France. It is a monopoly. Good or bad, it is French taste, and this is the only kind wanted. 5. New Orleans. French Initiative and French Ingratitude From intense...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 46 of America and her problems, 22 It is also a question of temperament. True inventors are like cooks who do not eat the food they have themselves prepared, and like genuine artists who paint for the sake...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 47 of America and her problems, 23 girls, who looked charming in their black or mauve gowns, with caps to match, waved their banners gayly and applauded frantically. Every one wanted to do honor to France, “la belle...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 48 of America and her problems, 24 that, up to that time, there had not been a drop of rain for fourteen months. This is the kind of desert that human energy is beginning to fertilize. From time...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 49 of America and her problems, 25 San Antonio. El Paso. The American Army There is a great contrast between the peaceful, intellectual city of Austin and the caravanserai-city of San Antonio. The latter is inhabited by Mexicans,...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 50 of America and her problems, 26 Paso, which are, for the time being, the two military centers of Texas and the United States. The small American town of El Paso, right on the frontier, is separated from...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 51 of America and her problems, 27 CHAPTER II THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. NEITHER CONQUEST NOR ABSTENTION General Porfirio Diaz's dictatorship.—The danger of the situation.—Conquest?—Mr. Hearst's publications.—President Taft's firmness.—An American party in Mexico.—The Cogwheel President Wilson.—Madero. Huerta.—A...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 52 of America and her problems, 28 rule. He certainly was a despot but none the less a benevolent despot. He began in very much the same way as a great many other dictators, and, during his thirty...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 53 of America and her problems, 29 the United States by the necessity, under which the government found itself, of making a distinction between professional plunderers, not to mention the men sent to stir up trouble for jingoistic...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 54 of America and her problems, 30 Taking the most evident facts and interests into account, and leaving out the inevitable maneuvers of fishers in troubled waters, we must see that the present prosperity of the former Mexican...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 55 of America and her problems, 31 it favors immense operations calculated to bring in both glory and money, for which reason it appeals much more strongly to the reader's imagination than does the honest newspaper which confines...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 56 of America and her problems, 32 of naval and military expenses. What can a poor, independent newspaper do, what can the most honest man do, even the most honest government, against such a powerful organization? In America...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 57 of America and her problems, 33 years ago in connection with the occupation of Tunis—an occupation which we were far from desiring and which we postponed as long as possible.1 They were carried on quite as actively...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 58 of America and her problems, 34 conspicuous by contradicting themselves in the most cynical way? They have no lack of pretexts and excuses. We need not delude ourselves on this head. They can, first of all, anticipate...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 59 of America and her problems, 35 fleeing with their wives and children from gangs of murderers? Meanwhile, the newspapers are circulating stories of these scenes of horror and publishing photographs, letters and names. The temptation is certainly...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 60 of America and her problems, 36 one, even if they were much more densely populated, without at the same time losing what constitutes their economic greatness, their unity, their prestige and, in a word, their future, and...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 61 of America and her problems, 37 been educating itself backwards. It is no longer fit to govern itself. It needs time, credit and order. An honest man, President Madero, supported by General Huerta, took office. He and...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 62 of America and her problems, 38 A Case of Conscience In short, President Wilson did not care to extend his hand to a murderer who, unlike Diaz, was not even a fortunate soldier. He declined to give...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 63 of America and her problems, 39 his “masterly inactivity,” and I ask myself whether these scruples do not reflect the real feeling of the United States, for it is easy to make mistakes about what is called...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 64 of America and her problems, 40 intervention, to which I have often referred, reduced to its minimum, which will be either suspicious or reassuring, according to the spirit of the intervening government and country; for the problem...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 65 of America and her problems, 41 war credits they are asked for on the strength of the argument that never has there been so much fighting. The answer to this is that there was more fighting before...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 66 of America and her problems, 42 CHAPTER III CALIFORNIA 1. The Long Distances. Arizona. Los Angeles. San Francisco.—2. Labor And Agriculture. —3. Yellow Immigration. —4. An Eldorado. Touring. The American Côte d'azur. From Los Angeles to Del...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 67 of America and her problems, 43 upon and transform the Old World; but, in the meantime, any attempt by European travelers, statesmen and writers to forecast the future of the United States with any degree of exactitude...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 68 of America and her problems, 44 short journeys of this kind are no doubt counted as so much rest by Americans. They think nothing of traveling. I saw an old man of ninety-two, my admirable and regretted...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 69 of America and her problems, 45 up to six dollars and a mason or bricklayer up to seven or eight dollars for a day's work, strictly limited to eight hours, and even these rates are lower than...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 70 of America and her problems, 46 as the reaping, packing in cans or otherwise, conveyance to markets, sale and export. It is a combination of agriculture, industry and commerce which cannot be effected without men and money,...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 71 of America and her problems, 47 3. Yellow Immigration Nobody wants coolie immigration on a large scale. It would be too much for some states, particularly California. It would bring wages down to starvation point, for the...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 72 of America and her problems, 48 constant trouble and conflict with America, which would be as injurious to one country as to the other. Are we to conclude that yellow immigration in America should be stopped altogether?...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 73 of America and her problems, 49 California has a sort of Patriotic League which acts on the more impressionable and excites them continually against Japan. At present these incitements have very little effect. In any case, there...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 74 of America and her problems, 50 In my own native district, the Sarthe, I used to see a class of Chinese students every year at our military school at La Flèche. There were about forty of them...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 75 of America and her problems, 51 invariable course, there is no denying that they may occur again, here as elsewhere. This country is, as I have said, a garden, and what a garden! I thought the people...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 76 of America and her problems, 52 been a source of wealth to various Italian-Californians whose palaces I have seen. Mere cook-boys twenty years ago, they are now very important and much-esteemed men, worth millions. When we remember...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 77 of America and her problems, 53 up in all sorts of places, even on the seashore; and petroleum, like the grapevine, has created a great deal of wealth. I have heard of a Los Angeles surveyor who...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 78 of America and her problems, 54 I have lived happily in France; I know England and the shady groves of Oxford and Cambridge; I have seen the spring in Algerian oases; and I thought myself blasé; but...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 79 of America and her problems, 55 CHAPTER IV WOMAN IN THE UNITED STATES 1. At the Universities. Berkeley. The girls' dinner. Voluntary servants. Young Americans traveling in France.—2. An Election Campaign. For or against women. The boulevards...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 80 of America and her problems, 56 in small villas, where they are their own masters, under the management of one of their number, whom they elect president in virtue of his ability and merit. They study, play...
- Contributor: Raper, George A. - Estournelles De Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet
- Date: 1915-01-01