Word: evils
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...main issue was Mayor Low's subjective attitude and not the objective results. Further than this it was established that there was an antecedent presumption in favor of the law and in favor of its strict enforcement; that good results would follow enforcement while connivance would be attended with evil results, and finally that the plan of the negative -- judicial enforcement--by merely preserving the present state of affairs and offering no remedy, led nowhere. Harvard's contentions in answer were based on the objective results of strict enforcement despite the fact that the affirmative had defined the question...
...with regard to it. He then quoted from a speech of Daniel Webster in 1832, showing that an executive officer has no more license to construe the laws which he is to enforce than a private citizen whose only duty is to obey them, and further developed the specific evils which would result from a non-enforcement of this particular law. In establishing this position, he showed that non-enforcement of the excise law would result in breeding disrespect for law in general among the citizens. He then brought out the fact that lax enforcement of law lies...
...went out of office the tariff went back to the old schedule." And Mr. Low in his letter to Dr. Parkhurst says, "the pressure of strict enforcement causes the fires of blackmail to burn as with a forced draught and only doubles the inducements for blackmail." The second moral evil which would accompany an attempt at strict enforcement, is the increase in those places where liquor can be legally sold on Sunday, the Raines Law hotels. "The Liquor Problem," a work prepared under the direction of President Eliot, James C. Carter and Mr. Low, states that when Roosevelt started...
...gymnasium room. A powerful gasoline engine connected by two shafts with the tank has recently been installed, and by means of two large propellors a surface current of about six miles an hour can be created. This will make the blade-work much more satisfactory as the principal evil of the stationary shell is the weight of dead water that the oar has to displace. Several trials made with the system in the past two weeks have proved successful...
...with individuals, so it is with nations. The nation must overcome evil with good. Let us apply this principle to anarchy. We try to suppress it, we must do more, we must cure it. This can be done only by education -- by teaching the people that government is a necessity, that our government is the best form of government ever devised, and that they must make it so good that every citizen will die, if necessary, to preserve its blessings to posterity...