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...filibustering against the refund of the direct tax will furnish an example and excuse for filibustering against tariff revision, and would justify similar action on every measure before Congress: Boston Journal, April 5 and 7; Boston Globe, April...
Question: "Resolved, That the action of the minority of the House of Representatives, in preventing the passage of the bill for refunding the direct tax, was justifiable...
...brotherhood has not promoted the interests of its members, since (a) its action has tended to decrease rather than increase the net reward of their labor: Report Mass. R. R. Commission for 1887 on B. and M. strike; daily papers on C., B. and Q. strike (March-April, 1888), especially Boston Herald, March 18, 1888; (b) its educational effect is nil; (c) it incites to violence: Report of Sec. of State of Penn., on the riot of 1877; Boston Globe for March 30, 31; Post, April 3; Herald, April...
...brotherhood does not benefit the community, since (a) by its action commerce is obstructed: Boston Herald, March 8; Nation, March 8, 1888. (b) And property destroyed. The object of the order is selfish: Taussig, South-Western Strike, Quarterly Journal of Economics...
...been deemed advisable to add to the list of correspondents of the CRIMSON a representative of the Cricket Club's interests, in order to ensure fuller information about the doings of the cricket eleven than has heretofore been customary. This action has been dictated by the importance which this branch of athletics has recently assumed in the college. It has ceased to be merely a local organization in distinction to the other teams which form parts of inter-collegiate associations, and a decided innovation in this respect will occur when the cricket eleven meets the University of Pennsylvania on Holmes...