Word: controlable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...LAMSON'S ARGUMENT.Mr. Lamson, first upholder of the affirmative, began by stating that railroads are the strongest corporate powers in the world and have control of many legislatures. There is no denying that they have also brought great evils. The problem of today is how to control them. That legislative control is legal, is acknowledged by the Supreme Court, that it is needed is proved by history, for no individual can cope with these corporations, no single state can control interstate traffic. The most dangerous abuses of the present are unjust discriminations against products, localities, and individuals particularly secret rates...
...brought about an increase in earnings, an increase in traffic and a general improvement. Mr. Depew and Mr. Ingalls, both prominent railway presidents, express the sentiments of most men of authority in railroad business in acknowledging that the public and the railway need legislation that shall obtain complete control over these vast corporations, these vast concentrations of capital...
...evils attendant on the prohibition of pools are so marked that the thoughtful men of our country are unanimous for a repeal. Before our opponents can plead for an extension of control, they must prove the beneficence of the present control...
...however, perfect brethren, for we have the problems of immigration, of labor, that the gap between rich and poor may not be widened. We are not bound together as brothren, until we can have a democracy industrially. Government, too, is still to progress to a power of common, fraternal control. We have passed from despotism to individualism and are on our way to fraternalism...
...Prohibition does not prohibit: Forum ii. 234, vii. 682; Pop. Sci. Mo. xxvi, 795; No. Am. vol. 141, p. 38; And. Rev. ix. 22. - (a) It cannot control appetite: No. Am. vol. 139, p. 196. - (b) Not supported by public sentiment: Forum vii. 675; No. Am., vol. 141, pp, 42-45. - (1) Not supported by many good citizens: Nation xii. 353; Am. Jour. Soc. Sci. xiv. 90. - (c) Has failed in - (1) Maine; Fortn xvi. 168. 174. - (2) Iowa; Nation xlii. 52 - (3) Kansas; No. Am. vol. 141, p. 41. - (4) Mass; Macm. lix. 343. - (5) R. I :Unita...