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...present Democratic administration upheld the principles of Civil Service Reform...
...Income Tax is indefensible as a means of tax reform. - (a) Poor are not now immoderately taxed: Nation, LIV, 24 (Jan. 11, 1984). - (1) Tariff reductions are are on necessaries of life. - (2) Poorer classes pay but little State and Municipal taxes. - (b) An Income Tax is objectionable in administration: Mill's Political Economy, II, 426. - (1) Difficult to ascertain real incomes. - (2) Inquisitorial in nature. - (3) A tax on honesty. - (c) It is not approved by experience. - (1) Has serious inequalities: Gustav Cohn in Political Science Quarterly, IV, 56 March 1889); Consular Reports...
...been frequently asked: What is there for the members of the Harvard Civil Service Reform Club to do? and some difficulty has been found in giving a satisfactory answer. I should like, however, through your columns, to outline a work in which any member of the club, or any person who is not a member, can assist the work of Civil Service Reform. Many of the books which are read in various lines of work, notably in the courses in History, contain valuable references to the conduct of the Civil Service in this and other countries. Now, there...
Civil Service Reform Club.The executive committee of the Harvard Civil Service Reform Club met last evening in 21 College House, the room of the club's secretary, J. Hall Jones. It was announced that Hon. Theodore Roosevelt of the United States Civil Service Commission will address the club on November 9, in Sanders Theatre. The club will make this an opening public meeting. The first balcony only will be reserved for the members of the club and of the Faculty. Two or three other free public meetings will be held during the year. A letter was read from the national...
...HOWE, Sec. H. A. A.HARVARD CIVIL SERVICE REFORM CLUB. - Executive committee meeting in 21 College House tonight at 8 o'clock. Important business...