William Howard Taft, AmericanChapple publishing Company, Limited, 1908 - 263 pages |
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Page 223
... wages in money were given a substantial increase in purchasing power . PANIC SHOWS LABOR'S INTEREST IN WELFARE OF CAPITAL What has been said , it seems to me , shows clearly enough that the laborer is almost as keenly interested in ...
... wages in money were given a substantial increase in purchasing power . PANIC SHOWS LABOR'S INTEREST IN WELFARE OF CAPITAL What has been said , it seems to me , shows clearly enough that the laborer is almost as keenly interested in ...
Page 224
Robert Lee Dunn. duces or destroys it , must reduce both wages and the opportunity to earn wages . It only requires the effects of a panic through which we are passing , or through which we passed in 1873 or 1893 , to show how closely ...
Robert Lee Dunn. duces or destroys it , must reduce both wages and the opportunity to earn wages . It only requires the effects of a panic through which we are passing , or through which we passed in 1873 or 1893 , to show how closely ...
Page 226
... wage - earners who must look to corporate wealth for their employment . Take the large body of railroad employees . Any drastic legislation which tends unjustly to reduce the legitimate earnings of the rail- road must in the end fall ...
... wage - earners who must look to corporate wealth for their employment . Take the large body of railroad employees . Any drastic legislation which tends unjustly to reduce the legitimate earnings of the rail- road must in the end fall ...
Page 227
... wage - earners had no debts of any amount to pay ; they were benefited by having their wages paid in the best currency possible ; and they were directly interested that their em- ployers with capital should collect the debts due them in ...
... wage - earners had no debts of any amount to pay ; they were benefited by having their wages paid in the best currency possible ; and they were directly interested that their em- ployers with capital should collect the debts due them in ...
Page 229
... wages than if it were left to the slower operation of natural laws , and in the same way , as hard times come on , the too eager em- ployer may be restrained from undue haste in reducing wages . The organization of capital into ...
... wages than if it were left to the slower operation of natural laws , and in the same way , as hard times come on , the too eager em- ployer may be restrained from undue haste in reducing wages . The organization of capital into ...
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Page 97 - Queen and empowering the committee to devise ways and means "to secure the permanent maintenance of law and order and the protection of life, liberty, and property in Hawaii.
Page 107 - the policy of the Government of the United States is to seek a solution which may bring about permanent safety and peace to China, preserve Chinese territorial and administrative entity, protect all rights guaranteed to friendly Powers by treaty and international law, and safeguard for the world the principle of equal and impartial trade with all parts of the Chinese Empire," He was successful in obtaining the assent of the other Powers to the policy thus announced.
Page 180 - In so far as is consistent with the nature of a provisional government established under the authority of the United States, this will be a Cuban government, conforming, as far as may be, to the constitution of Cuba.
Page 178 - The provisional government, hereby established by direction and in the name of the President of the United States will be maintained only long enough to restore order and peace and public confidence, and then to hold such elections as may be necessary to determine those persons upon whom the permanent government of the Republic should be devolved.
Page 249 - To say this is not to deny the legal right of any man or set of men voluntarily to refrain from social intercourse or business relations with any persons whom he or they, with or without good reason, dislike.
Page 249 - ... they, with or without good reason, dislike. This may sometimes be un-Christian, but it is not illegal. But when it is a concerted purpose of a number of persons not only to abstain themselves from such intercourse, but to render the life of their victim miserable by persuading and intimidating others...
Page 151 - Very little practical political education was given by the Spaniards to the Filipinos. Substantially all the important executive offices in the Islands were assigned to Spaniards, and the whole government was bureaucratic. The provincial and municipal authorities were appointed and popular elections were unknown. The administration of the municipalities was largely under the supervision and direction of the Spanish priest of the parish. No responsibility for government, however local or unimportant,...
Page 178 - To the people of Cuba: The failure of Congress to act on the irrevocable resignation of the President of the Republic of Cuba, or to elect a successor, leaves this country without a government at a time when great disorder prevails, and requires that pursuant to a request of President Palma, the necessary steps be taken in the name and by the authority of the President of the United States, to restore order, protect life and property in the Island of Cuba and islands and keys adjacent thereto and...
Page 221 - The greater the need of laborers, the better their pay per man. It is clearly in the interest of those who work that capital shall increase more rapidly than they do.
Page 249 - The right and liberty to pursue a lawful calling and to lead a peaceable life, free from molestation or attack, concerns the comfort and happiness of all men, and the denial of them means destruction of one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of the benefits which the social organization confers.