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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.

"What
Shall We
Say?"

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

At Ciudad
Juarez

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor Prophet of Democracy. Volume: 2. Contributors: David Starr Jordan - author. Publisher: World Book. Place of Publication: Yonkers-on-Hudson, NY. Publication Year: 1922. Page Number: 442.
    
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