Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...anywhere else. The question is often asked, why can not we have a theatre like the Comedie Francaise. France is Paris, Germany is Berlin, England is London. America on the other hand, is made up of a number of metropolises. Where would the national theatre be? New York would claim by right of her size, Boston would claim because she is the home of culture and refinement, Washington would claim it as the capital city of America. However there is no reason why Boston should not have an endowed theatre...
...believe, destined to prove one of the greatest educational movements of the last quarter of this century. I consider it a high privilege to have been identified with its beginnings in the United States, and I sincerely regret that the pressure of other work which has the first claim on my attention does not permit me to continue my connection with...
...Burns of Illinois, opened the affirmative for Princeton. He stated that the advocates of the tax did not claim that it was a perfect law, but that its fundamental idea was correct. He took up the conditions in 1894 and said that they fully justified the passage of the law. The people had seen that extravagance must be curtailed and that undue distribution of wealth must be corrected. This tax will deal harshly with the mercenary men of the world, but it is based on the broad principle of "equality of sacrifice for all." Before this time want, not wealth...
...McElroy of Kentucky was the second Princeton speaker. He said: "The claim of my opponent that the tax is socialistic is untrue. Because we claim that the millionaire should be obliged to support the government to a larger degree than the laborer, we do not support a socialistic theory. The most civilized countries of the world have adopted the income tax and unite in declaring it the most important feature of their revenue system. All bills contain some evils, but all bills do not rest upon such a firm basis as ours. This limit of $4,000 is a natural...
...Hirschfield, of Ohio, the third Princeton speaker, said: "This claim of socialistic tendencies for the income tax has been brought against every measure of reform which has been passed. It was brought against the new factory laws; it was brought against compulsory education and against improvement laws for the working classes. The claim that this tax is sectional is one that might be brought against the internal revenue measures which my opponents advocate on beer and whisky...