Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...deal during the past few months to procure the passage of a bill in the New York Legislature providing for improved tenement houses and open air parks in the crowded districts of New York City. In his address he proposes to show the influence of public opinion and good citizenship in bringing about these results. Mr. Gilder is well known as the editor of the Century Magazine and has taken an active part lately in the University Settlement work in New York...
...single sentence the writer calls us "unpolitical Harvard men," characterizes as "foolish performances inside the College yard" the enthusiastic political meetings of yound men just entering into the highest privilege of citizenship, and says that we have "no issues at all" ! This is so marked by that affected disdain of seriousness of purpose with which the young amateur who dabbles in the decadent literature of our day flatters himself that he is intellectually superior, that I can hardly bring myself to seriously consider it. Does the writer stamp as "foolish" the meetings which the men have carried through to give...
...Populists have sent good men to Congress: Rev. of Revs., vol. 10, p. 6.- (a) Few of them could be regarded as belonging to the politician class.- (b) They are fair representatives of honest and well intentioned citizenship of the states from which they come: Rev. of Revs., vol. 10, p. 11.- (c) The Populists in Congress stand first of all for the purification of national politics: Rev. of Revs., vol. 10, p. 38, W. V. Allen, Populist.- (1) They are arrayed against the money power.- (2) They have no party patronage to hamper them...
...Discrimination against Catholics is an uncalled for injustice.- (a) Membership in the church is not irreconcileable with good citizenship.- (b) American institutions are not in danger from Rome.- (1) Decline of papal power at home and abroad.- (2) Numerical weakness of Catholics in America: Censas Bulletin, Statistics of Churches.- (3) Increasing liberality among Catholics: Washington Gladden in Catholic Columbian, Oct. 8, 1894.- (4) Publicity of action in the U. S.: President Eliot in Forum, XVIII, 138, (Oct. 1894)-(c) A religious test is unconstitutional...
...disfranchisement of the negro would have a disastrous effect: No. Am. Rev., Vol. 153, pp. 653, 654.- (a) On the character of the negro.- (1) He would lose his incentive to good citizenship.- (2) He would lose the educating influence of the ballot.- (b) On the peace of the south.- (1) It would increase race prejudice.- (2) It would make the negro rebellious.- (3) All attempts to juggle the law in the end have a bad effect upon the community.- (c) The prosperity of the South...