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...Senators should be elected by the state legislatures.- (A) Indirect election of Senators secures much better men.- (1) Mere popular demagogues cannot secure election by state legislatures.- cf. character of senators and governors.- (B) Corruption, urged as an objction to the present system, would be merely increased by popular election of senators.- (1) Bribing in direct election is as easy as in indirect elctions: (bryce II, 137 seq.).- (2) It is more demoralizing.- (3) The Senators would be elected by the corrupt element of the states.- (a) The cities, where most corruption exists, would have greater influence (Bryce...
...Republic," Socrates states a belief in the future life. He says that everything has its natural enemy which tends to destroy it. If now, anything is found whose enemy can only corrupt it, we may consider that it cannot be destoryed. Since the soul can be corrupted but not destroyed, it must be immortal...
...influence of their husbands and vile politicians, would use their right freely: Nat.vol. 44, p. 310.- (e) The uncounted army of women in brothels and slums would vote under the influence of money.- (f) In New Jersey, woman suffrage was abolished with the concurrence of both sexes, because her corrupt voting rendered the elections of that state a mere farce...
...family most at heart. (x) The husband is occupied away from the family at work.- (y) He often is a patron of vicious places near his own home.- (z) Municipal evil appeals so strongly to women that their vote would be constantly for purity as against vice and corruption: Testimony of the Govs. of Kas. and Wyo. in W. S. Leaflet, Vol. II, No. 28; Hon. J. S. Clarkson, "How Women Vote in Colorado," W. S. Leaflet, Vol. II, No. 6.- (d) The objection that, if the municipal franchise were extended to women, the entire immoral female element would vote...
...Yale "Lit." centers interest on the work that has been done by juniors. The contest is very close this year and the choice of the five editors must practically be made from seven leading contributors. One of the '96 Lit. 's last acts is calling attention to the corrupt condition of the college in an individual article on "Shams," which is unreliable, uncalled for, and which voices the opinions, or notions, of a very small minority...