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...general would be the interest and the knowledge shown in important questions of state. What Professor Taussig has done is to resurrect from the Congressional Documents and from other sources equally inaccessible to the ordinary reader, a few of the most famous and valuable papers written by our earlier statesmen on the subject of the tariff. These papers, as he says, "are now reprinted in the hope that more easy access to them will be of service to teachers and students of economics, and will bring to the attention of thoughtful citizens serious and sober arguments removed from the heat...
Although there is much in these arguments which would not strictly apply to the altered conditions of today, yet the documents are valuable to show the historical growth of the tariff question, and what is of even more service, they represent the opinions of sober, hard thinking statesmen, who outside the pale of polities, were working for the best economic interests of the nation...
...with all our courses in English we have none which treat of English orators and statesmen, - of Pitt, Burke, Bright and Fox in England; Webster, Phillips, Clay and Calhoun in America. Such a course seems to us to be one well worth considering, for it would be interesting to many students in English literature and, moreover, there are doubtless students to whom it would be an advantageous and necessary training. A half course would answer the purpose, its aim being the study of the speeches of English and American orators and statesmen, their construction and effectiveness; a comparison...
...Blake, in speaking of the Irish question, said that any reconciliation between Ireland and Great Britain must be based on an acknowledgement of errors in the past. The Irish are now struggling for a federal government. Federalism has enabled statesmen to create out of conflicting elements, a nation with a central government to deal with common concerns, while under it each little state manages its own local affairs...
...effictive argument has been brought against the scheme as a whole. - (a) It is constitutional; Story Section 869. - (b) Is supported by precedent: Debates of 1790. - (c) Favored by our best statesmen; Report of Senate Committee, and (d) Avoids evils of European ministries because cabinet ministers are independent of Congress for election: Workings of Government...