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...Private ownership in the United States has brought about efficient service and low rates, and has developed the country. The evils of undue competition and discrimination are being satisfactorily remedied by the Interstate Commerce Commission: Quar. Jl. Eson...
...Mobs are dangerous instruments of justice.- [a] They destroy public and private property: Public Opinion, March 21; Am. Quar. Rev. vol. 17, pp. 209-231. (1835).- [b] They often kill officers of the law and other innocent citizens.- [c] They do not discriminate between guilty and innocent persons. Some of the Italians murdered were innocent, some had not even been tried in the courts: Public Opinion, Mar. 21.- [d] They often exact punishment far beyond the measure of the crime or the guilt...
...History of the direct tax of 1861; paid promptly by the loyal states, but collected only in part and with great difficulty in the South: Quar. Jour. Econ...
...measure is unobjectionable: 1. It is constitutional; Bryce Am. Commonwealth I 370 and note; 2. It is not sectional; [a] South Carolina benefits by it more than any other state: Quar. Jour. Ec. III. 455; [b] the Kentucky legislature has passed resolutions in its favor: Cong. Record XIX. 1514, 1518; 3. It is justified by precedent: Bourne. Hist. of Surplus Rev. pp. 22, 147, passim...
...unconditional repeal of the present law is impracticable. a. The currency must be increased. 1 Contraction of bank issue. Table I. page 32 in Rep. of Compt. of Cur., 1889. Sec. of Treas. 1889. p. XC; Trussig Silver Ques. Quar. J. Econ, p. 19. 2. Increase in population and business, Census 1890. Forum Apr. 1890, p. 169. 2. Per capita circulation less than other countries. b. Silver can best supply the need of more currency. 1. Necessity of a metallic basis. 2. Diminution of gold supply. 3. U. S. the greatest silver supply; Sec. of Treas. 1889 LXXIX...