Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...then examined in detail the first proposition of the affirmative, that to include Porto Rico within the customs boundary of the United States meant relief for the immediate economic needs of the island. "The United States has furnished foodstuffs cheaper than any country in the world, and can continue to do so, and we propose that the suffering, helpless Porto Ricans shall have them free of duty. But our plan means also cheap wearing apparel, cheap building material and cheap manufacturing material. To levy a duty upon these essentials of economic and social development would mean suffering to the already...
...With Porto Rico included within our customs boundary, her industrial development will be assured; with industrial development will come employment; with employment the means to buy food and the opportunity of self-support. Porto Rico will flourish and prosper, only when you assure relief for the suffering, capital for the crippled industries and a stability of government. There is one way, and only one, of securing these benefits to Porto Rico; include Porto Rico within the customs boundary of the United States...
...healthy institution must grow steadily, if not rapidly, while here, if the income continues to decrease, work must be abandoned or postponed, and publication delayed, which in some cases endangers the loss of the whole. The only remedy is a large increase in the endowment, or a temporary relief by gifts for immediate use. Delay may cause the poorest economy, by which an immediate saving may be followed later by a much more expensive return to present conditions...
...President Hadley of Yale, president of the association, on "Economic Theory and Political Morality." At the second day's session papers were read by Charles S. Fairchild '63 on "The Financiering of Trusts," and by W. H. Baldwin, Jr., '85, president of the Long Island Railroad, on "Railroad Relief and Beneficiary Associations." On December 29, the committee appointed at the last meeting to report on "Colonial Finance," of which Hon. Charles S. Hamlin '83 was a member, presented its report. At the last day's session John Graham Brooks '75 read a paper on the "Label of the Consumers' League...