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...commencement parts this year will make an extra effort to have all the parts possess that quality in which commencement exercises are singularly lacking, the quality of being interesting. Now there is nothing in the nature of a commencement part that requires stupidity, yet stupidity is the rule, not the exception in commencement parts. The facts are often scholarly, but seldom interesting. This year, however, the parts, we are told, must be interesting above all other things. The topics must be as far as possible live toplcs, or if this be impossible, and the old, time worn subjects be again...
Taxation for encouraging trade may be right, but is a tariff the best mode of imposing such taxation? Protective tariffs are to give certain profits to a certain class of producers, to compensate for certain losses. Now, as a rule, no tax is levied by Congress without giving the definite amount and purpose; but the matter of tariffs is an exception. Taxes levied for aiding manufacture are mixed up with other government expenses. Yet the people have a right to know all the particulars of taxation, "how much and what for." All national expenditures and taxes should be purely open...
...government is least suited of all for elaborate financial legislation. First, because we have no single financial minister: and our own appropriation bills are always greatly and wonderfully modified before passage: and second, because we pay our legislators, a circumstance which has naturally brought about the rule of the many by the comparatively poor. The pressure on these men from capitalists in all financial matters is very great. The financial committee is composed largely of business men, always ready to in crease their bank accounts. The only way to remedy this evil of corrupt legislation is by narrowing financial legislation...
...policy was due to a search for cheaper food and a zealous attack against the aristocratic classes. Had the agitation been raised on any other grounds than those of cheaper food it is a question whether England would not yet have protection. England, however, is the exception. As a rule protection has been advancing, because, (1), of the fact that every man is a natural protectionist, eager to keep a market for himself; (2), of the existence of a strong national anti-foreign feeling, and (3), of the prevalence of the idea that government and legislation are all powerful. Protection...
...commencement parts this year will make an extra effort to have all the parts possess that quality in which commencement exercises are singularly lacking, the quality of being interesting. Now there is nothing in the nature of a commencement part that requires stupidity, yet stupidity is the rule, not the exception in commencement parts. The facts are often scholarly, but seldom interesting. This year, however, the parts, we are told, must be interesting above all other things. The topics must be as far as possible live topics, or if this be impossible, and the old, time worn subjects be again...