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...prohibitory amendment is preferable to (a) freedom of sale-Local Option, chapter 3. (b) low license-R. C. Pitan, Argument on License Bill, p. 22; Nation, Jan. 13, 1889, p. 87; (c) high license-New Englander, 48, p. 126; W. B. Spooner, pamphlet, p. 13; (d) local option-North American Review, 135, pp. 528 532; (e) prohibitory laws-Our Day, March...
...Prohibition has failed to accomplish its purpose (1) in Massachusetts-Christian Union, Feb. 28, 1889; American Journal of Social Science, 14, 90; (2) in Rhode Island-Nation, Feb. 14, 1889; (3) in Maine-American Journal Social Science, 14, 118; (4) in Vermont-Popular Science Monthly, 25, 47; (a) Constitutional prohibition would not be supported by many good citizens-Professor J. B. Thayer, Cambridge Tribune, March 9,1889; American Journal Social Science, 14, 90; (b) it would be an unwarranted interference with personal liberty-Forum, 3, 152; New Englander...
...plan is injurious to the domestic producer.- Nation...
...Bounties are wasteful. (a) They cause a dead loss to national wealth; (b) they require increased government machinery to distribute them; (c) they encourage producers to disregard the laws of supply and demand.- Nation, Jan. 17, 1889; Fort...
...lecturer said that art holds as important a place in the life of a nation as politics or literature. It may seem strange to select such a small and comparatively insignificant branch of art as engraving for the subject of a lecture, yet only a small portion of engraving-namely the way in which the German engravers made use of their lines in shading, will be spoken...