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...Lack of free registry was not responsible for the decline in American shipping.-(a) Under present laws our merchant marine reached its height.-(b) Decline due to-(1) Destruction of commerce by English-built cruisers: Bates, Chap. 9.-(2) Commercial depression following war.-(3) Mechanical changes-(x) Wood to iron.-(y) Sail to steam...
...scheme is objectionable even for the homeless. - (a) The City Colony is objectionable. - (1) "Shelters" encourage vagrancy and dissolution of family ties by wife - desertion: Contemp - Rev. 62, p. 65-66, 70; Riis, p. 82. - (2) "Elevators" attract but few of them. - (x) Laziness: Forum 16, p. 754-5; Contemp. Rev. 60, p. 253.- (3) Occupants become willingly dependent on charity: Contemp. Rev. 62, p. 75-76. - (4) Labor bureaus of but slight advantage. - (x) Employers distrust applicants. - (y) Salvation sympathizers discriminate against other workmen: Contemp. Rev. 62 p. 71-2. - (5) "Salvage Brigade" no field for work...
...country. - (a) Large areas now worthless without it: Powell, 48. - (b) 120,000,000 acres reclaimable: Sec. Noble's Report 1891. - (c) Government no longer has any good agricultural land left. - (d) Irrigated land better for agriculture than common land. - (e) Irrigation has developed the country immensely. - (x) in India: Wilson 418-20. - (y) in Southern California and in New Mexico: Sec. Noble's Report...
...economical: Forum, XII, 740. - (b) Private capital is able to create and manage such a system. - (1) Private capitalists have undertaken such works in the west, as in New Mexico: House Exec. Doc. 51 Cong. 2 Sess. (1890-91) VIII, 608. - (2) Private capitalists have undertaken equally large operations. - (x) Niagara Falls Water Power Co. - (y) Great railway systems...
...Proposition is objectionable on economic grounds. - (a) Prevents the satisfaction of a natural social instinct. - (1) A dispensary not sufficient. - (2) A shop conducted with philanthropic motives not sufficient. - (x) Men do not like to be objects of philanthropy. - (b) A strong demand of human nature will lead to violations of an opposing...