  1. The United States army should be greatly enlarged. 2. Japan was justified in waging war against Russia. 3. A formal alliance between the United States and Great Britain for the protection and advancement of their common interests would be expedient. 4. Military tactics should be taught in the public schools. 5. The United States navy should be greatly enlarged. 6. The aggressions of England in South Africa are justifiable. 7. The nations of Europe should combine to bring about drastic reforms in the Congo Free State. 8. Ireland should be granted home rule. 9. Japanese control will promote the political and economic interests of Corea more than would Russian control. 10. Armed intervention on the part of any nation to collect private claims against any other nation is not justifiable. 11. The annexation of Canada by treaty with Great Britain would be economically advantageous to the United States. 12. The United States should establish commercial reciprocity with Canada. 13. The United States should maintain a system of subsidies for the protection of American merchant marine. 14. Congress should have decided in favor of a sea-level canal at Panama. 15. Woman suffrage should be adopted by an amendment to the Constitution. 16. The practice of relieving financial stringency by temporary deposits of United States Treasury funds in selected banks should be discontinued. 17. Labor unions are detrimental to the best interests of the workingman. 18. Free trade should be established between the United States and the Philippine Islands. 19. State boards of arbitration, with compulsory powers, should be appointed to settle disputes between employers and employees. 20. The United States should discontinue the protective tariff policy. 21. The Federal government should own and operate the interstate railroads within its borders. 22. Railroad pooling should be legalized. 23. The tax on the issues of state banks should be repealed. 24. The United States should adopt one-cent postage. 25. American municipalities should own and operate their street-car systems. 26. The President of the United States should be elected for a term of six years and be ineligible for re-election. 27. The President of the United States should be elected by popular vote. 28. Ex-Presidents of the United States should be Senators-at-large for life. 29. United States Senators should be elected by popular vote. 30. The powers of the Speaker of the House of Representatives should be restricted. 31. The United States should institute a system of responsible cabinet government. 32. Judges should be elected by direct vote of the people. 33. All cities in the State of ——, having at least ten thousand inhabitants should adopt the Des Moines plan of government. 34. The right of suffrage should be limited by an educational test. 35. The State of —— should adopt the initiative and referendum system of government. 36. Congress should repeal the Fifteenth Amendment. 37. Members of State legislatures should be forbidden by law to accept free passes on any railroads. 38. Corporations engaged in interstate commerce should be required to take out a Federal license. 39. Women who pay taxes should be permitted to vote at municipal elections. 40. The annexation of Cuba to the United States would be for the best interests of Cuba. 41. The United States should grant full citizenship to the people of Porto Rico. 42. The United States should establish an old age-pension system similar to the one in operation in Germany. 43. Political union with Cuba would be for the advantage of the United States. 44. The United States should permanently retain the Philippines. 45. The House of Representatives should elect its standing committees. 46. The white citizens of the Southern States are justified in maintaining their political supremacy. 47. Congress should prohibit corporate contributions to political campaign funds. 48. The present powers of courts to grant injunctions should be curtailed. 49. In all criminal cases three-fourths of a jury should be competent to render a verdict. 50. The United States government is treating the Indians unjustly. 51. Capital punishment should be abolished. 52. Education should be compulsory to the age of sixteen. 53. The fully elective system of studies should be introduced into all colleges. 54. College students receiving an average daily grade of eighty-five per cent, in a subject should be excused from final examination in that subject. 55. Class rushes should be abolished at —— College. 56. Hazing should be abolished at all colleges. 57. Freshmen should be debarred from intercollegiate athletic contests. 58. Athletics, as conducted at present, are detrimental to —— College. 59. The Federal government should maintain a college for the education of men for the diplomatic and consular service. 60. A large city affords a better location for a college than does the country. 61. The "honor system" should prevail at —— College. 62. American universities should admit women on equal terms with men. 63. American colleges should admit students only on examination. 64. American colleges should confer the degree of Bachelor of Arts in three years. 65. Public schools should not furnish free textbooks. 66. Secret societies should not exist in public high schools. 67. The education of the American negro should be industrial rather than liberal. 68. For the average student, the small college is preferable to the large college. 69. American colleges should adopt the recommendations of the Simplified Spelling Board. 70. For the United States, the type of the German university is preferable to the type of the American university. 71. Fraternities are undesirable in colleges. 72. The United States Army canteen should be restored. 73. There should be national laws governing marriage and divorce. 74. High License is preferable to Prohibition. 75. The Federal government should take action to prevent children under the age of fourteen from working in mines and factories. 76. The elimination of private profits offers the best solution of the liquor problem. 77. Employers are justified in refusing recognition to labor unions. 78. The United States should grant permanent copyright. 79. The Chinese should be excluded from the Philippines. 80. States should prohibit vivisection involving great pain. 81. The United States should establish a parcels post. 82. The United States should establish a postal savings bank. 83. The veto power of the House of Lords should be annulled. 84. Abdul Hamid was unjustly deposed. 85. The present laws relating to Chinese immigration should be amended to include the Japanese. 86. The United States should admit the Chinese on equal terms with other immigrants. 87. Further centralization in the power of the Federal government is contrary to the best interests of the United States. 88. The present tendency of government conservation of natural resources is contrary to the best interests of the United States. 89. Commercial reciprocity between the United States and Brazil would benefit the United States. 90. At present the United States should maintain no navy yard on the Gulf Coast. 91. The United States should admit all raw materials free of duty. 92. The United States should admit sugar free of duty. 93. The date of the Presidential inauguration should be changed. 94. Postmasters should be elected by popular vote. 95. All cities in the United States should establish and enforce a curfew law. 96. The three term system is preferable to the semester system at —— College. 97. The products of prison labor should not be allowed to compete in the open market. 98. 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