The Wall Street Point of ViewSilver, Burdett, 1900 - 290 pages |
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... President Ingalls's views on the evils of railroad management . CHAPTER V. MANAGEMENT OF OUR INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES The relation of the financial management of these institutions to their success or failure . They should be compelled to ...
... President Ingalls's views on the evils of railroad management . CHAPTER V. MANAGEMENT OF OUR INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES The relation of the financial management of these institutions to their success or failure . They should be compelled to ...
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... President in giving information and counsel to Congress . The immense power of the President in these matters , and the requisite qualifications to enable him to advise . — His great and varied responsibility . — The “ duty of a ...
... President in giving information and counsel to Congress . The immense power of the President in these matters , and the requisite qualifications to enable him to advise . — His great and varied responsibility . — The “ duty of a ...
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... President , and his consequent success , is the material prosperity of the country . He has to bear the brunt of bad ... President's errors in finance and currency . - Parallel between Jackson and Cleveland . — Origin of the national ...
... President , and his consequent success , is the material prosperity of the country . He has to bear the brunt of bad ... President's errors in finance and currency . - Parallel between Jackson and Cleveland . — Origin of the national ...
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... PRESIDENT CLEVELAND PERSONALLY CONSIDERED My The theory of his potent personality , and an attempt to un- ravel the secret of his success through this mysterious power and other potentialities . - Striking a balance between his praise ...
... PRESIDENT CLEVELAND PERSONALLY CONSIDERED My The theory of his potent personality , and an attempt to un- ravel the secret of his success through this mysterious power and other potentialities . - Striking a balance between his praise ...
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... PRESIDENT MCKINLEY'S POLICY AND THE NATION'S FUTURE A résumé of the policy of the present administration as out- lined in the inaugural address of the President speaking for himself and his party . The keynote of his policy is , first ...
... PRESIDENT MCKINLEY'S POLICY AND THE NATION'S FUTURE A résumé of the policy of the present administration as out- lined in the inaugural address of the President speaking for himself and his party . The keynote of his policy is , first ...
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Page 210 - In contemplating the causes which may disturb our union, it occurs as matter of serious concern, that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by geographical discriminations — northern and southern — Atlantic and western ; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views.
Page 85 - The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.
Page 152 - Not in vain the distance beacons. Forward, forward let us range. Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. Thro...
Page 85 - This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed ; but, in those of the popular form, it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.
Page 259 - Like the vase, in which roses have once been distilled — You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will. But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Page 110 - States to continue the use of both gold and silver as standard money, and to coin both gold and silver into money of equal intrinsic and unchangeable value, such equality to be secured through international agreement, or by such safeguards of legislation as will insure the maintenance of the parity in value of the coins of the two metals, and the equal power of every dollar at all times in the markets and in the payment of debts.
Page 278 - The maintenance of general peace and a possible reduction of the excessive armaments which weigh upon all nations present themselves in the existing condition of the whole world, as the ideal towards which the endeavors of all Governments should be directed.
Page 110 - Treasury notes thereon, and for other purposes," as directs the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase from time to time silver bullion to the aggregate amount of 4,500,000 ounces, or so much thereof as may be offered in each month at the market price thereof, not exceeding one dollar for...
Page 56 - I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe, for the purposes of art, of study, and benevolence, so that the man is first domesticated, or does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows.
Page 96 - Nor can the worker in manufactures fail to understand that while a high tariff is claimed to be necessary to allow the payment of remunerative wages, it certainly results in a very large increase in the price of nearly all sorts of manufactures, which, in almost countless forms, he needs for the use of himself and his family.