The Days of a Man 1912 



and to traditional diplomatic methods, he is often 

 at variance with his fellows, though not always (I 

 think) in the right. It would appear, however, that 

 he never wanders so far "from the reservation" as 

 to be outside his party nor to such a distance that 

 his party cannot catch up with him. 



In the course of this year the editor of The Christian 

 Expositor, a religious journal published in Cleveland, 

 asked me what he should say in regard to three 

 matters currently discussed at that time. I gave him 

 the best answers I could, later publishing them in The 

 Atlantic Monthly under the title, "What Shall We 

 ' Say?" Afterward I replied to similar questions in 

 mimeograph copies or in letters which were sub- 

 sequently printed. Different people now sent sums 

 of money, unasked, to help on the series. By 1916, 

 when it was discontinued, it had risen to about 

 ninety leaflets with 1900 subscribers. These sheets 

 went all over the world, and were copied or translated 

 in various journals of England, Germany, France, 

 Poland, Switzerland, China, and Italy. In my "War 

 and Waste" (printed in 1912) I included a number 

 of "What Shall We Say?" articles. 



At ciudad After the outbreak of the Mexican revolution and 

 soon after the battle at Juarez, I visited that city from 

 El Paso in the company of two Stanford engineers, 

 Willis Jourdan and Edward Scheibley. Traces of 

 the conflict were numerous; the big standpipe of the 

 waterworks was shot full of bullet holes, the larger 

 buildings hotels, post office, and the like had 

 been burned, and in the basement of several houses 

 one could see the wounded being cared for by the 



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