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...function of this court . . . to consider the propriety or justness of the tax, to seek the motive or to criticize the public policy which prompted it. ... The power of taxation is fundamental. . . . The restriction that it shall not be exercised [unequally] does not compel the adoption of an iron rule of equal taxation nor prevent variety or differences in taxation. . . The fact that a statute discriminates in favor of a certain class does not make it arbitrary if the discrimination is founded upon a reasonable distinction. . . . The statute treats upon a similar basis all owners of chain stores. ... This...
These acts the British Parliament passed in the decade after the War. They compel the toiling proletarian to buy insurance. If male and between the ages of 21 and 65, he pays for it at the rate of seven pence per week, this being deducted from his wage. His employer is forced to pay in eight pence and the state adds seven and ha'pence more, making a total of 22½ pence per week, or 45?...
...college students. (Of course, every normal man has his favorite actress whom he would see in any picture, no matter how outrageous the vehicle.) But when work causes consternation and the weather and other forces cause one to be "fed up" there need be no especial attraction to compel one to irresponsibility and invite more consternation while whiling away the time in a movie seat...
Without a strong, organized opposition the group in power has nothing to compel it to give the maximum of public service. The new progressive movement may not succeed in ousting the Republican-Democratic hybrid from power. But if it merely provides a threatening opposition, it will be of immense service to the nation...
...laws were passed in Kentucky, Tennessee and Texas to define the press services as "common carriers" obliged to give service where requested. Momentous test case was that of the Chicago Inter-Ocean which, suspended from the A. P. for infraction of a rule, sued in 1898 to compel reinstatement. The Illinois court ruled that the A. P., then an Illinois corporation, had "granted to the public such an interest in its use that it must submit to be controlled by the public for the common good. . . . The sole purpose for which news was gathered was that the same should...