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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Proposed Cabinet System best remedy for existing defects. A. Will do away with present committee system. x. Ministers will have initiative in public legislation. y. Private bills will pass through their hands. B. Emergencies can be met by threats of dissolution and resignation. C. Educates the nation. 1. Debates mean something. x. Are thorough and effective. 2. Leads to well-moulded public opinion. x. Politics are full...
...Prices in America have fallen from 100 to 61 (Barker's Bimetallism, p. 278). (2) The claim that falling prices are due to cheapening of production is unfounded. (a) It is imporbable that all articles would have fallen in price so uniformly in regard to gold. (b) Silver has mean-while remained at the same level with other prices. (3) Tho claim that overproduction has caused the fall in prices is unfounded. (a) Population has increased faster than production since 1873. B. The only fair dollar is one which is just the average dollar at which debts incurred since...
...strange it is to read in any publication of this University that a "nonpartisan" attitude is "impractical," that "it has a good deal of weakness, and tendency to procrastinating all but the easiest decisions," (whatever this last may mean). And again, how strange to read that Harvard men, and "even less than the graduates of other colleges," "have been of very little use to our country in politics." And yet James Russell Lowell is still remembered, and we are still in mourning for William E. Russell. and only a little while ago Theodore Roosevelt was the most talked...
What the writer can mean by that phrase "with no issues at all," I cannot understand. It needs explanation, and so do many other expressions, such as "unsatisfied by the general practice of inheritance." Indeed we might require an explanation of the spirit and the sentiments expressed in the entire editorial...
...forfeited. (a) Our bonds would be paid in depreciated money, contrary to the declaration of the Act of 1890. (b) All debts would be scaled down one-half. B. The attack on Civil Service Reform is an attack on good government. (1) The spoils system has always menat, and means now, corrupt administration of public affairs. C. The plank in regard to Federal Relations is an attack upon the U. S. Gov't and subversive of the Constitution. (Chicago Platform.) (1) It destroys the Federal equilibrium established by the Constitution. (a) It means that...