Word: controlable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...adequate substitute is proposed.- (a) Bank notes not a desirable substitute.- (1) Would leave too much to discretion of private bankers.- (x) Bankers controlling volume of money would control prices.- (y) Bankers would be likely to inflate currency in times of excitement.- (2) Profits from issue should go to whole people not to bankers...
Polk had attempted to get control of the Ohio river, but here Grant made his first appearance, and with characteristic promptness, occupied Cairo and Poducale, effectually keeping control of the Ohio and also of the Tennessee and the Cumberland. These two rivers made aneasy point of attack upon the Confederate line, as Grant was soon to show...
...ever increasing tendency today is towards government control of quasi-public works.- (a) This also applies to municipalities as shown in the present condition of affairs: Professor Hadley in Pol. Sci. Quar., III. 573 (Dec. 1888); Municipal monopolies and their Management...
...profit making: Pol. Sci. Quar. Dec. '88, p. 590.- (3) Leads to conservatism.- (d) Public labor less efficent than private: Chairman of Boston Park Commission, in speech of Burrage, p. 11.- (e) Tends unduly to raise wages.- (1) The employer is the best judge of reasonable wages.- (2) Government control makes the laborer the judge: Nation...
...present conditions in American cities are such that municipal ownership and management of street railways would be undesirable.- (a) Those who control municipal politics are not men of good business capacity.- (b)Corruption would be increased.- (1) All employes of street railways would become part of the political machine.- (c) Would increase the already serious problem of municipal indebtedness: Bastable, p. 184.- (d) In large cities municipal lines would clash with suburban lines.- (e) The remedy for present evils lies in additional regulations by the city government: Burrage...