Word: tends
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...election of a Democratic government will best serve the interests of the country.- (1) Further tariff legislation would be detrimental to business: Harper's Weekly, XL, 218-(a) Business men desire no change: ibid; Nation, LXII, 232.- (b) A Democratic government will tend to prevent such legislation.- (c) A Republican government would change the tariff.- (x) Republicans are making the tariff their chief campaign issue: Harper's, XL, 218.- (2) A Democratic government gives promise of better currency legislation.- (a) In 1888 the Republican platform denounced Cleveland for his attempts "to demontize silver:" Tribune Almanc...
...gained from a neutral canal would be its control in case of war.- (2) The United States could not maintain this control in case of war: Woolsey in Yale Review, (Feb., 1896).- (e) It would force the United States to abandon her long settled foreign policy.- (1) It would tend to embroil her in disputes with European nations.- (x) They would not submit to our arbitrary interference in assuming exclusive control of an inter-oceanic water-way.- (y) The Suez Canal has set the precedent for the neutrality of such a water-way.- (2) It would force her to maintain...
...Change of system would tend to take national issues out of state politics.- (a) It would directly destroy the legitimate reasons for voting on national lines for the state legislature: Bryce, op. cit. pp. 100, 567; Atlantic, LXVIII, p. 228 (Aug. 1891).- (b) It would tend to do away with "national voting" in other state contests.- (1) The choice of Senators by the legislatures makes people believe there is a necessary connection between all state and national politics: Nation...
...members are earnest and sincere in their efforts to do well, and to return the defeat of last year. When it was first proposed to hold an intercollegiate debating contest, we looked upon the plan with disfavor, and it must be confessed that the first debate did not tend to lessen this feeling materially, though considering their inexperience, the Harvard speakers did themselves credit. It seemed to us then as it seems to us now that intercollegiate debate demands too great maturity and experience on the part of the participants to be undertaken by freshmen with thorough success. The Freshman...
...President's message was bad in its effects upon future diplomatic policy.- (a) Future relations with American States.- (1) Will tend to place us in an attitude of supervision over them: Boston Herald, Dec. 18, 1895; Nation LXI, pp. 437 (Dec. 19, 1895) and 459 (Dec. 26, 1895); Woolsey in Forum XX p. 712 (Feb. 1890); Rice, ibid, p. 729.- (x) Message is commonly held to imply a broad doctrine of supervision.- (y) A doctrine of this kind, once thought to be enunciated is adhered to and amplified by the people. Monroe Doctrine.- (2) This attitude of supervision...