Word: cents
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Clarence E. Clough, of Wilmot Flats, N. H., was the third speaker for Yale. He said: "The tax is an encroachment of national government upon the states. Twenty of our states have already taxes on inheritance, incomes or corporations. If you put an additional tax of two per cent on this same property, and this is what the income tax does, there will follow injustice and evasion and the state law must be repealed. The income tax law contains three points of unjust discrimination. First, savings banks. It exempts six hundred and taxes three hundred. One class divides its profits...
...faculty at Brown recently voted to excuse those seniors who should secure a term mark of eighty-five per cent from the necessity of taking the final examinations...
...cent. of increase is a little over thirty-three and one-third...
William Edward Hutton made the second speech for Harvard. He claimed that the evils which exist have no vital connection with a broader franchise. He cited Berlin with 13 per cent. of men of voting age denied the franchise and New York 26 per cent. He claimed that $500 worth of property or the paying of annual rent of $250 would be a reasonable qualification amount...
Best general references: In Darkest England and the Way Out; Herbert Mills, Poverty and the State; F. G. Peabody in Forum XII, 751 (Feb. 1892) and XVII, 52 (Jan. 1894); Rev. of Rev. II, 492 (Nov. 1890); New Review VII, 493 (Oct. 1892); Nineteenth Cent. XXIX, 73 (Jan. 1891); West. Rev. Vol. 135, p. 429 (Apr. 1891); Quart. Jour. Econ...