Word: fassett
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...Archdeacon Farrar in his paper, "A Few Words on Col. Ingersoll," calls that gentleman "a man of straw." Both Rev. Lyman Abbott in the April number, and Archdeacon Farrar in this, have considered the straw man worthy of their most vigorous poundings. "Why Cities are Mis governed," by Mr. Fassett of the New York Senate, argues that the wrong is always in wrong uses of money, and the remedy suggested is power given to Senate Committees to investigate all conditions of municipal administration and accounting. Under the head of "The Tariff on Trial," Sir Richard Cartwright writes of "Protection...