Word: badness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...This Jingo policy is bad.- (a) It is unwise.- (1) It is expensive.- (x) Large navy needed.- (2) It will lead to acquisition of unadvisable territory: Hawaii, Cuba.- (x) Such territory is alien and un-American in spirit.- (3) It will make us unpopular abroad and diplomatically weak.- (x) It offends powers we deal with: Ex., Chili: Hart, op. cit. p. 131.- (4) It will lead to unnecessary wars.- (b) It is unjust and wrong.- (1) It leads to dishonorable acts: Hawaii, Chili: Nation...
...High protective duties are bad economically.- (a) Waste capital and labor: Cairnes, Leading Principles, Pt. III, ch. 4, pp. 394 sq.- (1) Prevent best utilization of natural resources.- (b) Hurt manufacturers by raising the price of raw materials: Ibid. p. 402; Petition of Iron and Steel Industries for free iron ore and free coal; N. Am. Rev. Vol. 159. pp. 650, 651.- (c) Injure the 'morale of industry': Cairnes, pp. 402, 403, Pol. Sci. Q. VI. pp. 611, 612.- (1) "Cause manufacturers to rely on legislation more than on their own economy and skill."- (d) Foster trusts and monopolies...
Fuller would certainly be at right tackle, but it is very doubtful whether he will be able to play as he is suffering from a bad knee...
...CRIMSON has spoken in strong terms of the bad state of things at the post office and certain improvements are obviously necessary. But the exact character must depend entirely on who the future tenant is to be. Until the government, which up to this time has shown a shameful lack of attention to communications addressed to it concerning the state of the office, makes its intentions known, it is of course impossible for anything to be done...
...spite of the bad weather a large audience assembled last evening in the lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum to hear Mr. Herbert Welsh, editor of "City and State." The subject of Mr. Welsh's talk was "The College Graduate and the Civil Service." The address was full of interest and very much to the point. A summary of it follows...