Word: protected
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...State ownership is constitutional; Constitution, Art. 1, & 8; Hamilton's Works IV, 109-111; - (a) It is the natural right of a State to protect itself. - (b) Precedents prove this, e.g., Subsidizing of Railways, canal and steamship lines, Interstate Commerce, post office, Prison manufactures...
...crowded with laborers, many of whom would be glad to work but who do not find any demand for their labor. Thus by poverty they are brought to degradation. They refuse to go West, but remain couped up in cities and the so-called "sweating system" is a result. Protection claims to protect the American laborer and yet she allows our ports to be open to cheap and pauper labor. These foreigners do not understand our ways of government. They cannot distinguish between unrestricted freedom and liberty, thus anarchism and the numerous cliques and secret societies, with all their evils...
...hasty action of our government, although after long and patient waiting, has given an offense to Chile which that country is likely to remember, and the United States seems in danger of entering on the "bullying policy" which has made Great Britain unpopular the world over. We must protect our ships and our men but we can do it without making enemies. Above all we must be careful not to set up new principles of international law which may be wrested to our hurt...
...Fifty First Congress proved an efficient remedy for these evils - (a) They save valuable time. - (b) They make possible the transaction of public business in order of its importance. - (c) They solve the quorum question constitutionally: "A Democratic Leader" in N. Am. Rev., vol. 151, p. 237. - (d) They protect adequately both majority and minority. - (e) They do not confer on the speaker dangerous power. - (b) They are supported by precedent and common sense: T. B. Reed in N. Amer. Rev., March, May, and August, 1890. Joseph Chamberlain in Nineteenth Cent., vol. 28, p. 861; J. G. Cannon in Cong...
...contemporaneous exposition. - (2) A majority prescribed by the constitution. - (3) The House not in absolute control of its own procedure; Consti, Art. 1, $5; Bryce, pp. 129-131. - (b) Indefinite, by being capable of different interpretations; Nation, Feb. 13, 1890, p. 124. - (c) Dangerous. - (1) Rules are intended to protect, not to oppress minorities...