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...dangers. (1) The work must be left to professional politicians and bosses. (a) Few of the best men can actively participate. (2) Constantly recurring elections breed neglect of issues. (a) In off-years half the registered voters do not vote in Massachusetts. (b) On the average only 67 per cent. vote in Massachusetts. (c) In representative biennial election states 80 per cent, and over vote. (E. H. Haskell, Biennial Elections, p. 13.) B. They are expensive. (1) $148,000 is spent on a single election. (Mr. Winn, Boston Traveller, Feb. 13.) C. They tend to inefficiency in governement. (1) Governor...
...Duke of Argyll, Our Responsibilities for Turkey; Cont. Review, Sept., Oct., '96; E. A. Freeman, Ottoman Power in Europe; Boston Herald, Feb. 1, Oct. 19-25, '96; Hazell's Manual, 1894, 1896; American Magazine for Civics, Oct. '96; Forum, June, '96; C. W. Eliot, Atlantic Monthly, Oct. '96; Nineteeth Cent., Oct. '96; Justin McCarthy, N. A. Review, Sept. '96; Laveleye, Balkan Peninsula; D'Avril, Traites...
Eighteen hundred and forty-five ballots were cast in all out of a possible 2,516, or about sixty-nine per cent. McKinley received about eighty-one per cent. of the votes. Following are the results...
This is the last day for student applications for 50 cent seats...
...greatly appreciated since 1873. (1) It will buy more now than it would then. (a) Prices in England reckoned from 45 staple articles have fallen from 100 to 62 (Sauerback's Estimate in "Honest Dollar," p. 24). (b) Prices in Germany reckoned from 100 articles have fallen 35 per cent (Honest Dol. p. 25). (c) Prices in America have fallen from 100 to 61 (Barker's Bimetallism, p. 278). (2) The claim that falling prices are due to cheapening of production is unfounded. (a) It is imporbable that all articles would have fallen in price so uniformly in regard...