In the following quotations place the commas, semi-colons, colons and
periods in their proper places, and be able to give a reason for what
you do:
The man who stabs his brother to death is a criminal and is hanged the
general who under a flag slays a regiment is a hero and is decorated
with a cross
The most thrilling oratory the most powerful and impressive eloquence
is the voice of the disinherited the oppressed the suffering and the
submerged it is the voice of poverty and misery of wretchedness and
despair it is the voice of humanity crying to the infinite it is the
voice that resounds throughout the earth and reaches heaven it is the
voice that wakens the conscience of the race and proclaims the truths
that fill the world with life liberty and love
The number of lives lost in the great wars of the world have been as
follows Napoleonic wars 1900000 our Civil War 656000 Franco-German War
290000 Boer War 90898 Russo-Japanese 555900 and in the present
world-war untold millions
Walt Whitman who represents individualism at its best writes "I sing
the song of myself" To this the Socialist replies "Inasmuch as my
redemption is bound up in that of my class I sing the song of my
class"
We believe with John Ruskin "whether there be one God or three no God
or ten thousand children should be fed and their bodies should be kept
clean"