Word: iii
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...property qualification for the municipal franchise will confer it upon those most likely to use it for the public welfare: Lalor, III, 811. - (a) It will make a more intelligent class of voters. - (b) It will exclude those indifferent to the public welfare. A. P. Wilder, 52. - (1) Dependent classes, susceptible to bribery. - (2) Pauper immigrants...
...III. Experience shows that those cities which have a property qualification are better governed than those which have an unrestricted suffrage. Nation, xxxiv, 245, 267 (Mar. 23, 30, 1882); Shaw: Municipal Government in Great Britain, 45, 77; New Review, 11, 74, 499 (July, Nov., 1894); Forum, 17, 659 (Aug., 1894). - (a) Municipal government in the United States is extravagant, inefficient and corrupt. - (b) European cities, having property qualification are economically and efficiently governed...
...III. The Subway meets the demands. (a) The people desire it. - (1) Passed both branches of legislature by good majorities. - (2) Accepted by a normal popular vote: Boston Herald, Apr. 12, '95. - (3) Common Council voted against repeal. - (4) House defeated repeal bill: Boston Herald, Apr. 30, '95. - (5) Prominent business men endorse it: Morning Journal, Apr. 29. - (6) Opponents not representative men. - (b) Benefits local traffic. - (c) Benefits suburban traffic...
...III. Elevated roads are inevitable for the chief lines of the city. - (a) Subways not adapted to long distances. - (1) Great expense in construction. - (2) Unhealthfulness. - (b) Elevated road on Boylston and Tremont streets would cooperate with the suburban lines...
...University of Pennsylvania in 1891 as Lecturer on European History in the department of philosophy. In the fall of 1892 he was appointed Associate Professor of European History, which is the position that he now resigns. He is still a young man, having been born in Bloomington, III., in 1863. He graduated from Harvard in 1887. After a year of graduate study in history at Harvard, he went to Germany and took the degree of Doctor of Philosophy...