Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Moorfield Storey in his paper entitled "Politics as a Duty and as a Career" has timely suggestion as to the manner of arousing public opinion in regard to matters of national interest and as to the duty. of each citizen in the struggle to make public opinion effective. The writer comes to the conclusion that politics as a career must be a failure of all but the wealthy; that while parties must exist, it is almost impossible to carry effective measures of reform into operation by means of party machinery. We agree with Mr. Story in many points...
...patriotic citizen of Andover recently contributed a large woodpile with which to build a bonfire, thus saving a large number of fences and other wood work from certain destruction...
...very numerous monuments of the hospital was made by direction of Sir Arnold White, the Chapter Clerk of St. Katharine's. The result, now first made public, was the bringing to light of the original counterpart lease from the hospital to 'John Harvard, Clerke, and Thomas Harvard, Citizen and Cloth worker of London,' of certain tenements in the parish of Allhallows, Barking, the lease bearing date July 29th, 1635, and the counterpart being executed by John Harvard and Thomas Harvard. A feature of no little interest is that this is not an antiquarian curiosity whose history has to be traced...
...said that a New Haven citizen has offered $50,000 to educate Josef Hoffman provided he be taken from the stage...
...placed in the U. S. treasury to pay for the education of the tribe. The other important section of the bill is the conferring of the right of citizenship upon the Indian. The bill declares that every man who has left his tribe for civilized life is made a citizen of the United States, and that the Indians who receive land are subject to the laws of the country. The great trouble with the bill is that it gives the Indians no courts or power to enforce their laws. In this respect as in many others the bill...