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 Latest Important Cases man which makes her his comrade, and not his

slave — that equality in which modern civiliza tion sees one of the supreme ends of moral progress. Money-Lending. "American Unthrift." By Charles T. Rogers.

Atlantic, v. 107, p. 693

(May) Throwin much light on the extensive business of money- ending, as it is actually conducted in typical cities of the country. Party Politics. "The Meaning of Insur gency." By Ray Stannard Baker. American Magazine, v. 72, p. 59 (May). "There is too much bitter history connected with both of the old party names; too much prejudice in the South, too much partisanship in the North. What is needed is a new progressive party which shall unite all the progressives of the country." "The Biggest Boss of Them All." By Frank Parker Stockridge. Hampton's Magazine, v. 26' p. 616 (May). "Cox is the last of the old-time city bosses who ruled by sheer might-the last, and the

greatest. No power more absolute than that of Cox has ever been exercised in the United States; no other boss in the days of the great bosses ever contolled a more closely knit, perfectly organized and well-lubricated political machine, no other man since the days of Tweed has ever held a city by the throat with so ﬁrm a grip as has Cox.’ Tariﬂ. "The A B C of the Tariff Question." By Andrew Carnegie. Century, v. 82, p. 143

(May) “Duties should not be levied upon art treasures im orted, because these tend to gravitate to pu lic galleries and thus become the priceless

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possessions of the people. Although held for a time by their owners a generation comes when an owner bereft of family, perhaps, or for other reasons, bequeaths them to the city. They are not ‘consumed’ as luxuries are." "The Reciprocity Agreement, from a Canadian Standpoint." By Hon. George E. Foster, M.P. North American Review, v. 193, p. 663 (May). "We have at great cost opened our vast rairies and established an industrial system or the purpose of attracting population and capital and developing our rich natural resources. For thirty years we have been ex ending money lavis ly in perfecting our east and)west transport, to develop our interprovincial trade, and facili tate exchanges with the mother country. "The reciprocity pact cuts strai ht across this development and this ideal, isconnects our provinces, attacks our industries, taps our

east and west connections by north and south lines, and menaces our national solidarity." "Blasting at the Tariff Wall." By Arthur Wallace Dunn.

Metropolitan, v. 34, p. 131

(May) Treating of the Canadian reciprocity bill, and particularly of the attitude of insurgent Republicans in Congress toward it. Taxation. "The Things that are Caesar's; IV, Taxes two Sides of the Line." By Albert Jay Nock. American Magazine, v. 72, p. 76 (May). "There is no such thing in Canada as a general property tax. . Absolutely nothing can be done as long as the general-property tax remains in our constitutions, or as long as the taxing power of the Legislature remains under consti tutional restraint of any kind." The taxing systems of this country and Canada are compared, greatly to the advantage of the latter.

Latest Important Cases “Commodities Clause.”

Hepburn

Act — Stock Ownership in Sham Corpora

tion. U. S. The commodities clause of the Hep burn rate law, interpreted two years ago by the Supreme Court of the United States (21 Green Bag 301) into what was

commonly supposed to be an impotent group of words, was given new life

April 3 by that same tribunal in U. S. v. Lehigh Valley R. R. Co. (L. ed. adv.

sheets p.

387).

The

"commodities”

clause made it unlawful for a railroad to transport in interstate commerce any commodity produced by it, or in which it might own or have any interest, with certain exceptions. The government sought to reach under the law a number of railroads carrying anthracite from Pennsylvania. In ruling that the bill in the govern ment's suit might be amended Mr Chief Justice White said:— "While that decision [the former deci