Word: demand
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reduction of woolen duties will be an application of the great principle of raw materials. - (a) A saving of at least $45,000,000 a year would result. - (b) Manufacturers would be enabled to compete with foreign countries. - (c) a larger market would be secured. - (d) A greater demand for labor would result and cause a general revival of industry...
...above requirement, this great objection still holds that the work done may stand for nothing but bits of knowledge picked up from here and there. There is no requirement that the student shall be a master of any subject. Of course the A. M. degree should not demand such an extent of specialization as the degree of Ph. D., but nevertheless it ought to demand more than it does now in its character of an advanced degree of A. B. If some such system were introduced of preparing a thesis, such as is required for a Ph. D., it would...
...vanity or national pride but numbers do not constitute strength and our welfare would be much greater if we aimed rather at quality than quantity. Moreover the country is over-crowded with laborers, many of whom would be glad to work but who do not find any demand for their labor. Thus by poverty they are brought to degradation. They refuse to go West, but remain couped up in cities and the so-called "sweating system" is a result. Protection claims to protect the American laborer and yet she allows our ports to be open to cheap and pauper labor...
...School spoke next. What can a people without land be, except lawless? In the Catholic Church, a man excommunicated is out of the community - almost literally. The Indians are in a similar state, they are excommunicated. It must follow that they are lawless and we cannot complain. We demand for the Indians an amenability to law and the right of appeal to law. The alternative...
...Lyman Abbott followed. Liberty; government; education; this nation offers these three things to everybody except the Indians. We should give them a chance to make men of themselves. In order to do this our demand must be: down with the reservations, National law shall be introduced to them, there shall be no backward legislation. With the realization of these demands will come the resolution of the Indian Question...