Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...will injure our commerce with Brazil and Cuba. - (b) It has caused retaliation on our beef by Germany: Harper's Weekly, Nov. 10, 1894. - (c) It is a patchwork disowned by its framers. - (1) Harper's Weekly, Sept. 1; Nation, Aug. 2, Oct. 11, 1894; National Democratic Platform, 1892. - (2) Pres. Cleveland's letter to Representative Catchings in Public Opinion, Sept. 6, 1894. - (d) It favors a monopoly: Nation...
...Republican party is unworthy. (a) It has been twice condemned for its last work. (b) It represents no principles: Reed's speech in N. Y. Tribune, Sept. 25, 1894; N. Y. Republican platform in N. Y. Tribune, Sept. 19, 1894. (c) Its conduct in the last Congress has been unpatriotic. (1) In regard to silver repeal and the income tax: Boston Herald...
...Delay in legislation; N. Y. Tribune, July 3, 9, Aug. 27, 30, 1894. (b) Passing a tariff bill which encourages trusts, monopolies, and local and social prejudices; Reviews X, 246-7; Cyclopedic Rev. IV, 278; N. Y. Trib. July 3, 8, 1894. (c) Violation of party pledges: Chicago Platform, 1892, in Tribune Almanac for 1893, pp. 34-36; President's letter in N. Y. Tribune, July 30, 1894. (d) A sacrifice of the dignity of the House: Tom Johnson's speech, Am. Economist, Vol. XIV, No. 12 (Sept...
...party platform is the definition of the means by which a party hopes to perpetuate the welfare of the nation, and is founded on moral principles quite as important as those underlying the struggle for Civil Service Reform. The welfare of society has been at times considered the object of all government. It is the avowed object of a political party. And, when a man in whose hands the welfare of the people has been entrusted by a great commonwealth, can be persuaded to come here and explain the principles and methods by which some of the greatest intellects...
...their officers, the faculty in a body, the representatives of the Corporation and Overseers, and finally the new-comers, graduates, Law School men, college freshmen, entering and seeing at a glance in the great assemblage something of what Harvard is? Then, as this year, representative students on the platform to speak as they only can speak to other students. Would not such a ceremony be one long remembered by the new arrivals? Would it not give the younger among them, especially, a truer understanding of the fact that they have become members of a University which is not all architecture...