Word: bryce
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Bryce American Commonwealth, Vol. I; Cooper, American Politics; Cox, Three Decades of Congress; Doyle, English in America, Vol. III; Frothingham, Rise of the Republic; Van Holst, Calhoun; Van Holst, History of the United States, Vol. VI; Hosmer, Samuel Adams; Lodge, Hamilton; Lowell, Case of Dred Scott; Snow, Guide to U. S. History; Weed, Autobiography, Vols...
...measure is unobjectionable: 1. It is constitutional; Bryce Am. Commonwealth I 370 and note; 2. It is not sectional; [a] South Carolina benefits by it more than any other state: Quar. Jour. Ec. III. 455; [b] the Kentucky legislature has passed resolutions in its favor: Cong. Record XIX. 1514, 1518; 3. It is justified by precedent: Bourne. Hist. of Surplus Rev. pp. 22, 147, passim...
...country. [b] the system of government is costly and unsuitable, [c] Canadian welfare has been sacrificed to British interests; Dublin Review, vol. 35 p. 151; Forum, July 1887; ibid March, 1889: August, 1889; Contemporary Review, Nov. 1881, Handbook of Commercial Union; Bourinot's Constitutional Manual of Canada; Bryce's American Common wealth. II. 410; Dilke's Problems of Great Britain c. 1; Payne's Colonial Dependencies...
...present system of party administration is unsatisfactory. a. It leaves the government in the hands of bosses; Bryce II, 96, 98, 102, 118; Forum II, 532; IX, 117. b. Offices are sought merely for the salaries attached; Bryce II, 56, 126-134. c. By corrupt party measures men of conspicuous unfitness are appointed, e. g.; Tweed, Carter Harrison, Judge Reilly O'Dyvver; Bryce II, 117. d. Parties have become an end and not a means; Bryce II, 20; Forum IX. 430-436. e. There are no vital differences between the parties; Bryce...
...impossible to bring about permanent reforms by action within a party; Bryce II, 83, 108; American, 1890, p. 436. a. Case of Roosevelt. b. Hill and Quay hold absolute control in their respective parties...