Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Best general references :- Quart. Journ. Econ., vol 1, p. 28; Unit. Review, vol. 26, pp. 522-29; Nation, vol. 47, pp. 125 6; Forum...
...wonder the word "vision" became a proverb among the Jews, Over and over again they relapsed, but there was constantly held before them by their prophets the vision of a beautiful land. Where there are no visions the people perish. It is not what a nation possesses or acquires, but it is the national idea which pervades its life. Our own country is not great by what it has, but what it dreams. It is our national ideas which keep us safe and pure...
There are thus insuperable difficulties in a system of taxing everything, and the harshest measures must be adopted to make such a system even moderately successful. The tax-payers in Boston are denied the privileges of criminals. The system is not American, but a relic of Rome. Every civilized nation except the United States has discarded...
...unwise to pass the Blair bill because: (a) It is obviously a local measure.- Congressional Record, pp. 1238. (b) It is based upon statistics clearly false at the present time.- Nation, vol. 42, p. 207. (c) The apportionment is made on a false standard.- Nation, March...
...injurious to the states: (a) It is an assumption of paternal functions by the general government and an invasion of the sovereignty and independence of the states.- Nation, Jan. 16, 1890, p. 43. (b) It cripples and destroys local interest in the school.- American Catholic Quarterly, XIII., p. 345. (c) It puts a premium upon illiteracy and mendicancy.- Ibid. (d) It is a temptation to fraud...