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"I tell you, sir," he said, with all the impressiveness he could command, "that the best technical engineers not alarmists, but men who are careful students of such things agree that the danger here is as great as in any of the big cities of the United States.
This year in the light of continuing world uncertainty, I am asking the Congress for Army and Navy increases which are based not on panic but on common sense. They are not as great as enthusiastic alarmists seek. They are not as small as unrealistic persons claiming superior private information would demand.
Where are the evils which interested alarmists predicted would follow the modification of the East India Company's charter? I have spoken of restrictions to be imposed on those who engage in the trade. Allusion has been made in a former chapter to the Company's encouragement of Missionaries; I shall now add a few facts by way of illustration. The Rev. Mr.
It is known that the birth-rate is falling in all European countries a fall which has a very direct relation to a rise in the mean standard of comfort and the average age at marriage and alarmists foretell a time when nations will be extinguished through this decline.
The gentleman so entrapped might afterwards complain to his friend who introduced him to the siren, but he would never dream of associating him in the "crooked" transaction. We are not alarmists by any means, but simply relate facts as they have come within our personal knowledge.
My "Figaro," which comes out by mail, has not come at all. Well, it seems that the so-called "alarmists" were right. Germany has NOT been turning her nation into an army just to divert her population, nor spending her last mark on ships just to amuse herself, and keep Prince Henry busy.
A real education, such as was given in Scotland, would make the poor not, as alarmists had suggested, more inflammable, but better able to detect the sophistry of demagogues. He is, of course, in favour of savings banks, and approves friendly societies, though he is strongly opposed to making them compulsory, as they would then be the poor-law in a new form.
The steel-built Carlist privateer had been captured at the mouth of the Adour; she had been taken a prize to San Sebastian; Stuart and Travers were in close custody; and there were alarmists who whispered that they would be tried by drum-head as pirates, and hung up in chains in the cause of humanity. It was well for me I did not accept the invitation to that water-party.
After breakfast the next morning he resolved, however, to communicate to his friends, the Purcels, who were at all events no alarmists, and would not be apt to make him, whether he would or not, the instrument of a selfish communication with the government, a kind of honor for which the quiet and unassuming student had no relish whatsoever.
The alarmists of the South, in their most fervid pictures of the evils to be apprehended from the prevalence of anti-slavery doctrines in their midst, have drawn nothing more fearful than the visions of such "Prophets of war and harbingers of ill"
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