Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...purpose of advancing the rights of men rather than the rights of property. The specific plan was to prevent slavery and to limit the right of property in man. The leading principles of the Republican party are for the rights of men; secondly the principles of the nation; then sound currency; and the protective tariff for revenue; civil service reform; and finally, in a word - progress. An honest man who differs from me and our party on Tariff Reform must judge between two questions and strike a balance governing himself accordingly. If a man votes with the Democratic party...
...asked to speak. He then introduced Professor James B. Thayer of the Harvard Law School. He took for his text, the title of an article he contributed to a recent number of the Atlantic Monthly: "A People Without Law." We are undertaking an unprecedented task, that of civilizing a nation. The Indians have lost all the civil society which they once had. The change has been gradual. We have placed over them a little despot - the Indian Agent. We depose and dispose of their chiefs as we like and we govern them without any any system of laws. We have...
...Lyman Abbott followed. Liberty; government; education; this nation offers these three things to everybody except the Indians. We should give them a chance to make men of themselves. In order to do this our demand must be: down with the reservations, National law shall be introduced to them, there shall be no backward legislation. With the realization of these demands will come the resolution of the Indian Question...
Should power and responsibility be more concentrated on the Chief Executive in the State and Nation? (W. E. Russell: Inaugural Message of 1892; Woodrow Wilson: "Congressional Government;" Bryce: American Commonwealth Vol. 1; "G. B's' letters to the Nation, passim...
...plan was originated last summer but as it has only recently been decided to admit America it has not received much discussion in this country. The idea seems to have been taken from the games of the Greeks when that nation was in all its glory. The plan has been much discussed in England and has received almost universal approbation. The Oxford Boat Club has announced its intention of competing, so through this medium might be brought about the much talked of international boat race. The object of the proposers now is to have the matter talked about and discussed...