Not only in the United States, but even in Europe, such crimes of violence are of increasing frequency, and a recent dispatch from Berne, under date of August 7, 1921, stated that the famous International Expresses of Europe were now run under a military guard.
Beck notes the rise in violent crimes in both the U.S. and Europe, highlighting the need for increased security measures.
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Without that vision to restrain each succeeding generation of Americans from the tempting excesses of political power, the American Commonwealth, with its great heterogeneous democracy, would probably perish.
We must defend the right to work against those who would either destroy or degrade it.
That vision will remain with them as long, and no longer, as there is in their hearts a conscious and willing acquiescence in its wisdom and justice.
Its protection should be given to those of superior skill and diligence, who ask the due rewards of such superiority.
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