Parties, Problems and Leaders of 1896: An Impartial Presentation of Living National Questions ... with Portraits and Biographies of Distinguished Party Leaders; Also, Lives of the Candidates for President and Vice-President , Convention Proceedings and Full Text of National Platforms |
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... shall be such as will ultimately enable every prudent and industrious citizen to secure a home , and , therefore , the land should not be monopo- lized for speculative purposes . " All lands now held by railroads and other corpora- ...
... shall be such as will ultimately enable every prudent and industrious citizen to secure a home , and , therefore , the land should not be monopo- lized for speculative purposes . " All lands now held by railroads and other corpora- ...
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Page 390 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers.
Page 353 - ... duties or other exactions upon the agricultural or other products of the United States, which in view of the free introduction of such sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, and hides into the United States he may deem to be reciprocally unequal and unreasonable, he shall have the power, and it shall be his duty...
Page 391 - This difference proceeds from that which exists in their respective governments. And to the defense of our own, which has been achieved by the loss of so much blood and treasure, and matured by the wisdom of their most enlightened citizens, and under which we have enjoyed unexampled felicity, this whole nation is devoted.
Page 50 - ... the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And, there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should...
Page 388 - Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics, or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Page 544 - Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world, supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests, and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them : ' You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
Page 234 - Continent renders very unlikely; and because it was well worth while to incur a loss upon the first exportation, in order, by the glut, to stifle in the cradle those rising manufactures in the United States, which the war had forced into existence, contrary to the natural course of things...
Page 389 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe ; our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cisatlantic affairs.
Page 313 - We owe it, therefore, to candor, and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers, to declare, that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.
Page 535 - I come to speak to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty — the cause of humanity.
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| Title | Parties, Problems and Leaders of 1896: An Impartial Presentation of Living National Questions ... with Portraits and Biographies of Distinguished Party Leaders; Also, Lives of the Candidates for President and Vice-President , Convention Proceedings and Full Text of National Platforms |
| Author | James Penny Boyd |
| Publisher | Publishers' Union, 1896 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 28 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 615 pages |
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