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...Donovan '13 maintained that the responsibility of the French ministry is misplaced. It should be on the people and through them on the Chamber and Senate, as is the case in England. This might lead to a dual party and eradicate the present bureaux system. If the power in the Chamber were arrested and placed in the people, the present weaknesses would probably be abolished...
After speaking of the "bureaux de blenfaleance," M. Mabilleau went on to discuss the only true "institutions de prevoyance" in France, that is, the savings banks; and the labor organizations...
...Wright then gave a description of the various schools and bureaux of statistics in Europe showing the course of study there laid down. America has no parallel to the schools of Europe, although she has better opportunities for this study. Johns Hopkins, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia give courses in statistical science which are valuable. The advantages of theoretical training are incalcuable. Experience with practical situations has shown the need of the study of statistical science as a theory, giving one thereby the ability to use the facts which he has discovered. However the word theory misleads...
...historian of America. It supposes that Thiers is the best administrator, because Thiers writes the best history. Now the writers on the other side of the water may determine this as they choose. We should remember here, that in our affairs, where government is divided into a thousand bureaux, and never centralized, the people-and no one class of the people-have shown in a thousand exigencies that they know what they are about, and how their business will be best done. As Mr. Garfield puts it, all the people is wiser than is any single...