Word: evils
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...strenuous and earnest social reform movement. There is a common error nowadays into which the over-zealous reformer is very apt to fall, namely that of judging the value of a principle or an action solely by its indirect consequences. Thus, in private property rights, the socialist sees an evil, not because the holding of private property is in itself a wrong, but because evil has resulted from the abuse of this right. In like manner he declares the present systems to be an evil because evils have resulted from its abuse...
...accomplishing much through numerous hospitals, Y. M. C. A.s and settlements. It has not, however, made itself felt as it should in regard to the really living problems of the day, and if it continues to remain inactive other agencies will take its place. The drink problem, the social evil, financial and labor problems, all have a remedy, and that obtainable only through the Church and Christ's teachings...
President Eliot said that the social evils of today are the results of tremendous revolutions which have taken place in the great industries of the world. Industrial and political liberty have been produced and in turn have produced the inevitable result of liberty, freedom to do evil...
...first great evil which has thus been produced is the congestion of population, for people seem to have a desire to gather together while exercising their rights to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Each man can use these rights as he sees fit and the result has been crowded city quarters which need water, light, and air. These needs have been answered by the collective forces of society...
...endeavor to regulate and control it; second, to forbid and penalize all combinations. These two methods are diametrically opposed, but Congress, in the Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Act, has tried to reconcile them, but without success. When the Sherman Act was passed Congress was aware that an evil existed but did not know how to cope with it. The act was therefore made very vague and the courts were required to interpret it, and by them it has been made to carry too far. There can be no really intelligent legislation on the subject until the public...