Word: nation
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Capital invested in them is in danger. Nation...
...Clarke, L. S. opening for the negative, said that the present immigration laws, if enforced will suffice to keep paupers, invalids, lunatics and contract laborers out of this country. To shut out immigration by further legislation would be against the principles of our nation. The civil evils caused by immigration are merely the "measles and the mumps', of our infant country, and must not be taken into consideration if we remember that immigrants have proven the back bone of our country, and that they have made our country what it is. Let immigrants come to America if they want...
...present local option law is working successfully-Nation, Jan. 31, 1889; Christian Union, Feb. 28, 1889; (a) it educates the community which must enforce the laws-Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Cambridge Tribune, March 9, 1889; (b) any defects in the present laws should be remedied carefully, not by revolutionary methods-Science, 9, 105; Professor J. B. Thayer, ibid...
...High license with local option has proved the best check on the evils of the liquor traffic-Nation, 42, 52; e. q. (1) in Illinois-45, 363; (2) in Minnesota; (3) in Ohio; (4) in Missouri; (5) in Nebraska-Nation. 46, 25; (6) in Pennsylvania-Nation, 46, 83; (7) in Michigan-Nation, 46, 127; Nation...
...interest of liquor dealers that the license laws be enforced-Nation...