4. What is meant by _protection_? What is meant by _free trade_? What is meant by a _tariff for revenue only_? What is meant by _reciprocity_? Give illustrations. 5. What are some of the reasons assigned for protection? 6. What are some of the reasons assigned for free trade? 7. Which policy prevails among the states themselves? 8. Which policy prevails between the United States and other nations? 9. Mention all the kinds of United States money in circulation. Bring into the class a national bank bill, a gold certificate, a silver certificate, any piece that is used as money, and inquire wherein its value lies, what it can or cannot be used for, what the United States will or will not give in exchange for it, and whether it is worth its face in gold or not. 10. Is it right to buy silver at seventy-five cents and then put it into circulation stamped a dollar, the Government receiving the profit? Can you get a gold dollar for a silver one? 11. Is a promise to pay a dollar a real dollar? May it be as good as a dollar? If so, under what conditions? 12. If gold were as common as gravel, what characteristics of it universally recognized would remain unchanged? What would become of its purchasing power, if it cost little or no labour to obtain it? Why is it accepted as a standard of value? 13. During the Civil War gold was said to fluctuate in value, because it took two dollars of paper money, sometimes more, sometimes less, to buy one dollar in gold. Where was the real changing? What was the cause of it? 14. What men are at the head of the national government at the present time? (Think of the executive department and its primary divisions, the legislative department, and the judicial.) 15. What salaries are paid these officers? Compare American salaries with European salaries for corresponding high positions. 16. Should a president serve a second term? What is the advantage of such service? What is the objection to it? Is a single term of six years desirable? 17. Ought the president to be elected directly by the people? 18. Name in order the persons entitled to succeed to the presidency in case of vacancy. 19. Who is your representative in Congress? 20. Who are your senators in Congress? 21. What is the pay of members of Congress? Who determines the compensation? What is there to prevent lavish or improper pay? 22. There is said to be "log-rolling" in legislation at times. What is the nature of this practice? Is it right? 23. Is the senator or the representative of higher dignity? Why? 24. Why should members of Congress be exempted from arrest in certain cases?