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...most efficient and cheapest can be obtained only by government ownership and control. N. A. Rev., 132:369. (a) It would be conducted in the interest of the public; (b) tariffs would be greatly reduced.- (1) No unnecessary outlay for parallel lines, etc. (2) Local use of post office facilities. (3) Freedom from taxation.- Quart. J. Econ., Apr., '88. (c) Service would be more efficient.- (1) Lines would be made adequate for business, and (2) extended to suburbs and outlying districts; (3) Offices would be more centrally located.- Brit. Quart., 59:455, (4) Strikes would be impossible.- Hadley...
...cannot be expected, however, that Harvard should take the stand in today's games that she took in the B. A. A. games; for the conditions of the contest are wholly different. The B. A. A. games, although successful in every way, were hardly more than local when compared with the sports today. The Amateur Athletic Union, on the contrary, embraces the best athletes all over the country, and their presence will go far toward making the games more successful than the B. A. A. contests. Moreover all the events are scratch, and each man will go strictly according...
...affirmative by H. E. Grigor, '92. He declared that the negro had been denied his rights in the South, and that congress had been packed by Southern democrats. The bill proposed in congress by Mr. Lodge provides a sufficient remedy. It is constitutional and does not interfere with local self government...
...speaker Showed how faulty these methods were, and promised in the next lecture to suggest a remedy. He said in substance: The idea which governs local taxations in the United States is that if taxation is to be equitable everything must be taxed. This theory is supported plausibly enough by the argument that property of every description is protected by the state, and therefore liable to taxation. In an early state of society, when all property was visible and tangible, the above theory was not found impracticable. But even then it necessitated personal inquisitions, and was always unpopular. In modern...
...injurious to the states: (a) It is an assumption of paternal functions by the general government and an invasion of the sovereignty and independence of the states.- Nation, Jan. 16, 1890, p. 43. (b) It cripples and destroys local interest in the school.- American Catholic Quarterly, XIII., p. 345. (c) It puts a premium upon illiteracy and mendicancy.- Ibid. (d) It is a temptation to fraud...