The Art of Public Speaking eBook

Stephen Lucas
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 590 pages of information about The Art of Public Speaking.

The Art of Public Speaking eBook

Stephen Lucas
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 590 pages of information about The Art of Public Speaking.

19.  Is the hope of permanent world-peace a delusion?

20.  Should the United States send a diplomatic representative to the Vatican?

21.  Should the Powers of the world substitute an international police for national standing armies?

22.  Should the United States maintain the Monroe Doctrine?

23.  Should the Recall of Judges be adopted?

24.  Should the Initiative and Referendum be adopted as a national principle?

25.  Is it desirable that the national government should own all railroads operating in interstate territory?

26.  Is it desirable that the national government should own interstate telegraph and telephone systems?

27.  Is the national prohibition of the liquor traffic an economic necessity?

28.  Should the United States army and navy be greatly strengthened?

29.  Should the same standards of altruism obtain in the relations of nations as in those of individuals?

30.  Should our government be more highly centralized?

31.  Should the United States continue its policy of opposing the combination of railroads?

32.  In case of personal injury to a workman arising out of his employment, should his employer be liable for adequate compensation and be forbidden to set up as a defence a plea of contributory negligence on the part of the workman, or the negligence of a fellow workman?

33.  Should all corporations doing an interstate business be required to take out a Federal license?

34.  Should the amount of property that can be transferred by inheritance be limited by law?

35.  Should equal compensation for equal labor, between women and men, universally prevail?

36.  Does equal suffrage tend to lessen the interest of woman in her home?

37.  Should the United States take advantage of the commercial and industrial weakness of foreign nations, brought about by the war, by trying to wrest from them their markets in Central and South America?

38.  Should teachers of small children in the public schools be selected from among mothers?

39.  Should football be restricted to colleges, for the sake of physical safety?

40.  Should college students who receive compensation for playing summer baseball be debarred from amateur standing?

41.  Should daily school-hours and school vacations both be shortened?

42.  Should home-study for pupils in grade schools be abolished and longer school-hours substituted?

43.  Should the honor system in examinations be adopted in public high-schools?

44.  Should all colleges adopt the self-government system for its students?

45.  Should colleges be classified by national law and supervision, and uniform entrance and graduation requirements maintained by each college in a particular class?

46.  Should ministers be required to spend a term of years in some trade, business, or profession, before becoming pastors?

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