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...Book" of Cornell University, which has just been published, shows that during the last twenty years the total number of graduates was 1,352. Of these 45 are engaged in agriculture, 51 in architecture and building, 5 in art, 23 in banking, 11 in chemistry and assaying, 150 in civil engineering, 246 in education, 30 in electrical engineering, 61 in newspaper work, 235 in law, 25 in manufacturing, 43 in mechanical engineering, 65 in medicine and surgery, 115 in mechanical pursuits, 30 in the ministry, 5 in publishing, 12 in scientific investigation and 65 in study; 121 are without occupation...
...questions for the ideals of which our conscience and our vote should be working. Immigration-the ideal is that it should be the right of every man being to dwell anywhere he will, so long as he keeps the laws of public health and peace. Freedom of suffrage-the civil and political equality of all men by virtue of their manhood. Commere-none of us know what the ideal of this is, but we are going to try to get as near the ideal of a free commercial world as we can get the majority of citizens to follow...
...Telegraph operatives are skilled workmen who cannot safely be removed. Hence the proposed system would be a valuable model of a nonpartisan civil service.- Sen. Rep., 48th Cong., "Statements...
...Government management would prove demoralizing. (a) To economical appropriations: Edinburgh Rev. 143, pp. 177 et seq. (b) To our civil service.- Hadley; Wells, p. 56. (c) To our politics.- Wells, pp. 58. 61; Hadley...
...Women need the right of suffrage for self-protection. (a) They need it for the protection of their property and civil rights.- T. W. Higginson in "Common Sense about Women," p. 199. (b) There is no virtual representation for women.- Charles Sumner, speech, March...