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Show THE SURRENDER HABIT Some unknown nation forced President Wilson to surrender our right to pass our coastwise traffic through the Panama canal free of tolls; Columbia forced him to surrender $25,000,000 of good American Ameri-can coin as the price of her friendship; Japan forced him to surrender principle in order that Shantung might remain under un-der Japanese domination; the railroad brotherhoods forced him to surrender under un-der threati of .destruction of industry in 1916; tho militant suffragists forced him to surrender on the equal suffrage amendment; am-endment; but now, without any apparent forcing, he voluntarily proposes to siu . render American sovereignty to a league of nations in which Great Britain will . have six votes to our one. Evidently he has acquired the surrender habit so strongly that it has become second nature. na-ture. ,H I |