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...WARREN ARGUMENT.To understand the origin of railroad abuses, one must appreciate the full extent of competition. Investors cannot withdraw their money, they must make the road a success. Hence competition has become a life and death struggle, and the roads have resorted to underhand means. But the railroads themselves, for their own salvation, introduced a system of pooling which, by giving each road an assurance of just so much traffic, removed the necessity for reductions, and the evils consequent upon these reductions...
...grows so close and hot that it is very uncomfortable for hose dining there. It has been found impracticable to open many of the upper windows because the draft causes the gas to flare in such a fashion that the walls are in danger of being considerably blackened. We understand that the Board of Directors are making efforts to remedy this trouble and we trust that they will be able to do so, and that in short time, for it is a serious discomfort to members of the hall...
...taken us many centuries to understand these truths and even today we seem not to realize that all men are brethren. The Jews of old knew that God alone is master, no man else, and in a way recognized that all are brothers. For many democratic principles were their possession, notably the right of universal suffrages and popular education. Then came Christ and taught his disciples that all men rich and poor, are before everything else brothers...
...economic grounds: - (1) No longer needed to develop the country. Pop. Sci. Mo., XLI. 762. Oct. '92 - (2) They lower wages and the standard of living; Forum XIV. 113. (Sept. '92): - (3) Unskilled occupations already overcrowded. Smith, 117. - (c) On political grounds. - (1) The Immigrants do not understand our institutions. Bryce Am. Com. I. 634. - (2) They become tools of Machine politicians; Smith. 13. - (3) They form communities by themselves, Bryce, Am. Com. II. 725. - (d) The dangers are increasing. - (1) The immigrants congregate in cities more than formerly; Smith 66-70. - (2) The character of the immigrants is deteriorating...
From the small number of men who met in Sever 2 last evening, it might be assumed that all members of the University did not understand that they were members of the Tennis Association...