Word: favorably
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After the elections Mr. Cushing addressed the meeting, answering the question why one should be in favor of Taft. The issue is not whether one is for or against the people, for it is safe to or assume that everyone wants the common welfare, but, by what means can the people best be served? The real question at issue is: "Do we want to go about important changes slowly and carefully, looking toward the consequences; or do we want to rush hastily into any new legislation, in the hope that it may prove a panacea...
...conservatives believe that our present machinery of government has worked well, and that its faults are incidental and not inherent; the progressives are in such a hurry to mend matters that they are willing to case aside all proven forms of government in favor of a system scarcely tried as yet. If the people are really anxious for good government they can have it now, by devoting the proper care to the selection of their representatives...
...always appeal for protection under the Fourteenth Amendment. An instance of this is shown in the case of a railroad against the State of Minnesota. In 1907 the State of Minnesota passed a two cent fare law and a railroad issued an injunction. The case was finally decided in favor of the railroads...
...School or the Medical School. Although no facts have been tabulated to show the exact relation between distinction in professional studies and success in the practice of the profession, it is nevertheless reasonable to suppose that the two are closely related, or lawyers would not be so much in favor of a law school training, doctors so much in favor of a medical school training, and the students in those schools would not work with such zeal and concentration during their entire course...
Four years ago the progressive Republicans were strongly in favor of Taft, and the reactionaries were opposed. Now the situation is reversed, the reactionaries wishing Taft because he is less likely to harm them, and the Progressives wishing Roosevelt because they consider him a leader competent to lead them to a victory and to support their ideals...