Word: repealing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...annul the law, New York City has only one-third of the representatives and according to Mr. John G. Agar, in Municipal Affairs for December, "upstate sentiment is unanimously opposed to the legalization of the Sunday saloon." Theodore Roosevelt was put at the head of those forces which could repeal this law, and failed because his enforcement took effect only on the people of New York City and made the law obnoxious. As Dr. Abbott said a few weeks ago, the old truism of enforcing a bad law to secure its repeal does not apply when the law is enforced...
...affirmative offered the only constructive program sound in principle and permanent in character, which would bring about a modification of the present law and a settlement of the saloon question in the City. He pointed out that we must not consider the present law as immutable or repeal impossible, for if the evils of the law were clearly demonstrated by a strict enforcement, a union of Buffalo, Rochester and New York City would be able to pass any measure through the legislature and cited the recent instance in New York when a strict enforcement of the law forbidding standing room...
...moral considerations as to the evils of unenforced laws do not support the affirmative policy, for the same reason--because it would not secure the enforcement of this law; they are strong arguments, but they are to be directed to the legislature, to secure a repeal of the unenforceable provisions, rather than against Mr. Low's present policy. On the other hand, judicious enforcement is theoretically right because it secures the best observance of this and of the general body of laws and secures peace and quiet in New York on Sunday, instead of promoting back-room selling and increasing...
...think of but one way. As the hostility of Europeons to the British policy has grown more bitter, British public opinion has grown more and more sensitive to criticism from this country. Every endeavor has been made to conciliate us and to purchase our acquiesence. The repeal of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty is one example, and another is the unnecessary announcement of yesterday of the British government concerning the services which it claims to have rendered to the United States at the beginning of the Spanish...