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...Annexation would introduce serious political, social, and economic difficulties. - (a) Canadian Religious troubles; Forum X, 323; No. Amer. Rev., vol. 148. p. 667; Arena, vol. II. - (b) Race problems; Forum VI: 458. - (c) Difference in language; Critic VII: 165. - (d) Political system is different from ours; Forum VI, 458. - (e) Large and increasing debt; Statesman's Year Book...
...There are serious practical difficulties in the way of Annexation. - (a) Increase in the civil service. - (b) Opposition of Great Britain; Fort. Review LV, 120; No. Amer. Rev. vol. 152, p. 473. - (c) Canadians do not favor it; Spectator, vol. 64, 163; Mag. Amer. Hist...
...Republican policy has been unfavorable to a military spirit. - (a) Pensions given through gratitude have been called a debt: G. B. Raum, Pensions and patriotism in North Amer. Review, Vol. 153, p. 213, Aug. 1891. - (b) It has accustomed the people to fight for rewards and not for patriotism: Pres. Cleveland's message. - (c) It has aroused disgust at the mercenary spirit of veterans: Weekly Tribune, July...
...sugar industry is highly desirable - (a) Will not be sectional: Cong. Rec. 1889-90. p. 892. - (b) Will be a new industry. - (c) Beets are a good crop for soil; Defender, Apr. 21st, '90. p. 9. - (d) It creates new and large demand for labor, both agricultural and mechanical: Amer. Ec., Sept...
...bounty system brings great advantages, and no corresponding disadvantages. - (a) The advantages are permanent, while the disadvantages are only temporary. - (b) The bounty keeps at home money before sent abroad in payment for sugar; Sen. Morrill, Amer. Eon'ist., Oct. 31, '90, p. 220. - (c) The bounty paid by treasury finds compensation in ten times that amount of new capital invested: Letter of Claus Spreckels, Jan. 1st, '88 in Daily Examiner, San Francisco: H. W. Wiley, "Experiments with Sugar-Beets," U. S. Dep. of Ag. Bulletin...