given at the State University and normal schools elsewhere be abolished. 77. The Massachusetts state civil service system should be adopted by the State of 78. The number of state and county elective officers should be reduced to the following: governor, auditor, members of state legislature, county commissioners. 79. The State of ernment. should adopt a commission form of gov 80. A "blue-sky law" similar to that of Kansas should be adopted by the State of 81. A "Public Necessity and Convenience" clause should be added to the public utility regulation of the State of 82. A single-house legislature would be preferable to the present form of government of the State of 83. The State should make all assessments for the property tax. 84. Nomination by petition should be adopted for state officers in place of the direct primary. 85. A system of sick-insurance similar to that recommended by the American Association for Labor Legislation should be adopted by the State of 86. The state judiciary should be appointed by the Governor. 87. An executive budget system should be adopted in the State of POLITICS (MUNICIPAL) 88. A system of teachers' pensions should be adopted by the city of 89. National party lines should be ignored in municipal elections. 90. The city of should organize and maintain a municipal university. 91. The Gary system of school organization should be adopted by the city of 92. The city of law to billboards. should pass a law applying a confiscatory 93. Segregation of sexes in the high schools of able. is desir 94. Municipal markets, similar to those in German cities, should be established in the city of 95. The direct system of paving constructions should be adopted in the city of 96. The city of should own and operate its lighting plant. 97. The city-manager plan of government, as outlined by the National Municipal League, is preferable to government by commission. 98. The consolidation of city and county government, similar to that effected in San Francisco, should be adopted in 99. The California provisions for city and county home rule should be adopted in the State of 100. The Ashtabula plan of proportional representation should be adopted in the city of 101. The short ballot should be adopted for municipal elections. 102. "Jitneys" should not be allowed to run under the present regulations in the city of 103. The city of ment. 104. The city of all motion pictures. should adopt a city-manager plan of govern should have an official board of censors for 105. Cities of over 25,000 inhabitants should own and operate their local systems of transportation. PEACE AND WAR 106. The League to Enforce Peace offers the best means of avoiding future wars. 107. The United States Government should own and operate all factories for the production of armor plate. 108. The United States should construct its battleships. 109. The exportation of all munitions of war from the United States should be prohibited. 110. There should be universal compulsory military service for male citizens of the United States. 111. The activities of the Navy League have served the best interests of the United States. 112. War should be declared only by popular vote. 113. Moneys expended for war preparation should be raised only by direct taxation. 114. A Secretary of Peace should be added to the Cabinet. 115. An International University should be maintained by the United States for the education of young men of all nations on a plan similar to that of the Rhodes Scholarships. 116. Officers of the army and navy should be prohibited from lobbying for increased armaments. 117. Congress should make provision for maintaining the navy at not less than its present strength. 118. The standing army of the United States should be substantially increased. 119. The United States should favor a formal defensive alliance with Great Britain. 120. The expenditures of the government for wooden ships during the war were unwarranted. 121. President Wilson's Mexican policy merits approval. 122. A large armament is the surest guaranty of peace. 123. The United States should adopt a policy of gradual disarmament. 124. Military drill should be compulsory in all public high schools. 125. The United States should adopt a system of compulsory military service modeled after that of Switzerland. 126. The coast defenses of the United States are adequate. THE WAR 127. The invasion of Belgium by Germany was justifiable. 128. The sinking of the Lusitania was justifiable. 129. The reply of the Allies to the Peace Note of the Central Powers (December, 1916) was justifiable. 130. The proposal of President Wilson (December, 1916) to the nations at war for a peace conference was worthy of the endorsement of Congress. 131. The fundamental causes of the war were economic. 132. Japan was justified in entering the war. 133. The deportation of the Belgians by the Germans was justifiable. 134. The treatment of neutral shipping by the Allies was justifiable. 135. The United States should have officially protested against the violation of the neutrality of Belgium. 136. The United States should not have entered the war. 137. The United States should have prohibited the exportation of armaments and ammunition during the war. ECONOMIC 138. Raw materials should be admitted to the United States free of duty. 139. Sugar should be admitted to the United States free of duty. 140. Foreign-built ships should be admitted to American registry free of duty. 141. A high tariff raises wages. 142. The amount of property transferable by inheritance should be limited by statute. 143. Foreign-built ships, owned wholly by Americans, should be admitted to American registry free of duty. 144. National banks should be allowed to issue credit currency to the extent of twenty-five per cent of their paid-up and unimpaired capital. 145. Free trade should be established between the United States and the Philippines. 146. The present tariff on iron and steel is justified on the ground of the protection of American industry against foreign competition. 147. Physical valuation of the property of a corporation is the best basis for fixing rates. 148. The United States Government should proceed at once to the extensive improvement of the inland waterways of the country. 149. There should be a minimum wage for men in the state of 150. All church property should be taxed. 151. The passage of the Adamson Bill was not justifiable. 152. The right to relieve financial stringency by temporary deposit of United States Treasury funds in selected banks should be denied the officers of the Government. 153. State boards of arbitration, similar to the Massachusetts board, should be maintained in all the States for the purpose of settling labor disputes. 154. The boycott is a proper policy for organized labor. 155. Members of trade unions are justified in refusing to work with non-union men. 156. The history of trade unions for the past twenty years shows a tendency detrimental to the best interests of the country. 157. Department stores have proved a benefit to municipal com munities. 158. The coal mines of the United States should be under federal control. 159. A system of compulsory arbitration of strikes should be established in the United States. 160. The United States should adopt a system of compulsory arbitration similar to that of New Zealand. 161. Labor-saving machinery has been injurious to the laboring classes. 162. Products of prison labor should be allowed to compete in the open market. 163. The principle of the "closed shop" is justifiable. 164. There should be a national board of arbitration, with compulsory powers, for settling disagreements between interstate railroads and their employees. 165. The best interests of the laboring classes would be advanced by the development of a separate labor party. 166. Labor unions are on the whole prejudicial to the best interests of the workingman. 167. Employers are justified in refusing to make agreements in regard to wages with labor unions of which a majority of their employees are members. 168. The powers of the National Bureau of Corporations should be extended to cover interstate transactions in insurance. 169. The movement of the labor unions for the "closed shop" deserves the support of public opinion. 170. Each State should pass a law requiring every corporation created by its charter to allow any stockholder to have access at all reasonable times to the names and addresses of all the stockholders. 171. American cities should seek the solution of the street-railway problem through public ownership and operation. 172. The Federal Government should provide the machinery for the compulsory investigation of controversies between employers and employees. 173. All goods, the price of which is controlled by a single capitalist or combination of capitalists, should be admitted free of duty. 174. Laws should be enacted providing that in case of personal injury to a workman arising out of, and in course of employment, his employer shall be liable for adequate compensation, and shall not set up contributory negligence or negligence of a fellow-servant as a defense. 175. It is economically disadvantageous for the United States to own territory in the tropics. 176. The income tax should include all incomes of $1500 or more. 177. A personal property tax cannot be administered with fair ness. 178. The single tax, as advocated by Henry George, is practicable. 179. The Federal Government should adopt a progressive inheritance tax, constitutionality conceded. 180. The principle of the income tax is just. 181. The best interests of the United States require the discontinuance of the protective policy. |