Word: nationalities
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...Control of the Canal by the United States is desirable: Gen. ref. - (a) Neutrality of canal better guaranteed by a single strong nation than by a joint protectorate. - (b) U. S. is its natural protector. - (1) By its situation. - (2) By the Monroe Doctrine: Rodrigues...
...Russian ascendancy would be a set-back to civilization. - (a) Effect on England. - (1) Religious and commercial civilization: Nation, Oct. 4, p. 250. - (2) Best colonizer in the world. - (3) Champion of free government. - (b) On Western Europe. - (1) Overthrow balance of power in the West: Spectator, Sept. 29, p. 392. - (c) On United States. - (1) Our interest in international affairs identical with England's. - (2) Involved in the division of Chinese territory...
...PAGE and S. W. PHILLIPS.Best general references: National Review, Oct. 1894, pp. 263-77; North American Review, Sept. 1894, pp. 300-8, 316-21; Spectator, Sept. 22, p. 360, Sept. 29, p. 392; Nation, Oct. 4, p. 250; Review of Reviews, Oct. 1894, pp. 361, 411-14; Public Opinion, Sept...
...note this fact with peculiar pleasure also because we feel sure that, the nation as a whole considered, the Graduate School will become more and more the guarantee of Harvard's reputation as the chief place of learning in the land. Local colleges are abundant and must diminish the number of men who will come a great distance for their college education. But that the Graduate School offers advantages not to be obtained else where is evidenced by the fact that the enrolment of the School has trebled within seven years and that last year out of two hundred...
...Income Tax is indefensible as a means of tax reform. - (a) Poor are not now immoderately taxed: Nation, LIV, 24 (Jan. 11, 1984). - (1) Tariff reductions are are on necessaries of life. - (2) Poorer classes pay but little State and Municipal taxes. - (b) An Income Tax is objectionable in administration: Mill's Political Economy, II, 426. - (1) Difficult to ascertain real incomes. - (2) Inquisitorial in nature. - (3) A tax on honesty. - (c) It is not approved by experience. - (1) Has serious inequalities: Gustav Cohn in Political Science Quarterly, IV, 56 March 1889); Consular Reports...