Word: locally
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...bill is national, not local, in its operation.- Public Opinion, February 25, 1888; Congressional Record, vol. 17, part II., p. 1474; North American Review, vol. 136, p. 337. 2, It encourages local effort on the part of the states.- Congressional record, vol. 17, part...
...unwise to pass the Blair bill because: (a) It is obviously a local measure.- Congressional Record, pp. 1238. (b) It is based upon statistics clearly false at the present time.- Nation, vol. 42, p. 207. (c) The apportionment is made on a false standard.- Nation, March...
...injurious to the states: (a) It is an assumption of paternal functions by the general government and an invasion of the sovereignty and independence of the states.- Nation, Jan. 16, 1890, p. 43. (b) It cripples and destroys local interest in the school.- American Catholic Quarterly, XIII., p. 345. (c) It puts a premium upon illiteracy and mendicancy.- Ibid. (d) It is a temptation to fraud...
...Thomas B. Shearman of Brooklyn, N. Y., desiring to encourage the efforts of college and university students, and others, in economic studies, has offered through the American Economic Association the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars for the best essay on the subject of "State and local taxation on personal property in the United States...
...laws needed to establish a better system of taxation. It is expected in brief that taxation of personal property will be taken as a starting point of the entire investigation, and that all inquiries will be made to centre in this; that defects in American state and local taxation will be pointed out; that improvements will be suggested; that the competitors will base all conclusions on a careful study of statistical and historical material: finally that the question will be treated with special, although not exclusive reference to the farmer...