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...RINGWALT and W. S. YOUNGMAN.Best general references: James Freeman Clarke in Christian Register: Educ. Rev. VIII, 471 (Dec. 1894); Forum III, 631 (Aug. 1887); George Santayana in Educ. Rev. VII, 313 (Apr. 1894); Century III, 683; Forum XVII 582 (July...
...ROWE and W. L. VAN KLEECK.Best general references: J. B. Warner, in Harvard Grad. Mag., 2: 329 (March, 1894); Forum 13: 461 (June, 1892); C. W. Eliot et al. in Critic, 3: 152-154; C. W. Eliot, Annual Report...
Best general references: Pol. Sci. Quar. 3-385, (1889) ibid 3-592; Forum, 5-584, (1888); ibid, 8-61, (1889-90); New Englander, 52-223, (1890); ibid, 52-343; S.C.T. Dodd, combinations, their Uses and Abuses...
...They can never maintain abnormal prices. - (1) Competition, latent or active, is always a check. - (2) Too great increase of prices lessens demand. - (b) Profits are enlarged by cheapening cost of production not by raising prices. - (c) Regime of combination is less harmful than one of free competition: Forum, 8:67 - (d) Trusts differ from corporate and individualistic forms of industry only in size and complexity. - (e) Popular prejudice is illogical. - (1) Classes most injured by competition are loudest in denouncing trusts...
...corrupt influence of property owners, corporations and rich men: Adams, Public Debts, p. 365. - (c) Businesslike administration and present broad suffrage are not necessarily inconsistent, as shown by - (1) Reformed city governments. - (2) Perfection of certain departments, e. g., Fire and Police Departments. - (3) Foreign experience, e. g., Birmingham: Forum, Vol. 14, p. 267. - (4) The judgment of reformers and practical men. - (d) Undesirable voters can be excluded in more direct and practicable ways. - (1) The ignorant, by an educational qualification. - (2) The corrupt, by more efficient bribery laws. - (3) Criminals by disfranchisement. - (4) The "floaters," by residence qualifications...