Word: reform
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cause general dissatisfaction. Our present revenue from customs is a tax on consumption, and all such taxes fall principally on the poor, being but little removed from a poll tax. Just taxes should be paid by property, and not by those least able to bear them. A genuine tariff reform should begin by correcting this wrong. If this were done there would be no protection left and no trouble-some surplus. The proposed revision of the tariff would not reduce the revenue in the least. All articles which do not compete with our manufactures are already on the free list...
...obstructive individuals have to suffer. In this sort of civic courage our race has led history; and why it should be so lacking here I do not know. Perhaps my vision of the facts is distorted. But it seems to me that, if it is not, this is the reform in "college opinion" which we most deeply need. If individuals cannot be sent to Coventry, no matter what they do, how can we ever get the tone of honor here which we might get-a tone in many respects much higher than that of the outer world...
...would not improve the civil service.- N. A. Rev., Dec., 1887, 4; Lambert, Progress of Civil Service Reform, 7-24.- Civil Service Record...
...party of true civil service reform, and opposed to the Democratic principle of "reform without works." References: Senator Hale's speech of Jan. 11 1888, in Boston Herald of Jan. 12, and in Congressional Record...
...would compel the retention of an unwise system of taxation.- Harper's Mag., Jan., 1888, 272; N. A. Rev. 143: 398; Cleveland's Message, Boston Herald, Dec. 7; Blaine's Criticism, Herald, Dec. 8; Sherman's Speech, Herald, Jan. 5; Tariff Reform Speeches, Herald, Dec. 30; Nation...