The Campaign Text Book of the Democratic Party: Of the United States, 1908Western newspaper union, 1908 - 312 pages |
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Page 35
... Steel Company , the American Locomotive Company , the Paper Bag Trust and various railroad and trolley syndicates . He was one of the or- ganizers of the famous Shipbuilding Trust . Sheldon was at one time , if not now , interested in ...
... Steel Company , the American Locomotive Company , the Paper Bag Trust and various railroad and trolley syndicates . He was one of the or- ganizers of the famous Shipbuilding Trust . Sheldon was at one time , if not now , interested in ...
Page 54
... Steel Mills of Pittsburg shut down , discharging 2,000 employes . On the same date the cotton firm of Myer & Co. , of New Orleans , failed , with liabilities at $ 2,000,000 . January 3 , 1891 , the Scottdale Rolling Mills and Pike Works ...
... Steel Mills of Pittsburg shut down , discharging 2,000 employes . On the same date the cotton firm of Myer & Co. , of New Orleans , failed , with liabilities at $ 2,000,000 . January 3 , 1891 , the Scottdale Rolling Mills and Pike Works ...
Page 58
... Steel Company is one of the numerous great corporations and trusts of which George Rumsey Sheldon , the Republican treasurer , is a director . IT IS ONE OF THE CONSTITUENT ELEMENTS OF THE STEEL TRUST , UNDER THE DOMINATION OF SUCH POWER ...
... Steel Company is one of the numerous great corporations and trusts of which George Rumsey Sheldon , the Republican treasurer , is a director . IT IS ONE OF THE CONSTITUENT ELEMENTS OF THE STEEL TRUST , UNDER THE DOMINATION OF SUCH POWER ...
Page 72
... steel is responsible for expensive building . In fact , the tariff has enabled the trusts to put up the prices of most things to pay divi- dends on fictitious capital . The increasing cost of living and the growing struggle for ...
... steel is responsible for expensive building . In fact , the tariff has enabled the trusts to put up the prices of most things to pay divi- dends on fictitious capital . The increasing cost of living and the growing struggle for ...
Page 103
... steel trust as he is opposed to or by any other trust . Judging the two men by the character of their support , are not the people likely to believe that even the poli- cies of the President would be safer in the hands of Mr. Bryan ...
... steel trust as he is opposed to or by any other trust . Judging the two men by the character of their support , are not the people likely to believe that even the poli- cies of the President would be safer in the hands of Mr. Bryan ...
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Page 194 - A system which provides a mutual exchange of commodities is manifestly essential to the continued and healthful growth of our export trade. We must not repose in fancied security that we can forever sell everything and buy little or nothing.
Page 84 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us...
Page 129 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens — a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Page 10 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Page 100 - ... they shall recruit their exhausted strength with abundant and untaxed food, the sweeter because it is no longer leavened by a sense of injustice.
Page 181 - Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Page 247 - In all tariff legislation the true principle of protection Is best maintained by the imposition of such duties as will equal the difference between the cost of production at home and abroad, together with a reasonable profit to American industries.
Page 163 - This government is acknowledged by all to be one of enumerated powers. The principle that it can exercise only the powers granted to it would seem too apparent to have required to be enforced by all those arguments which its enlightened friends, while it was depending before the people, found it necessary to urge. That principle is now universally admitted.
Page 297 - ... to make a contribution or expenditure in connection with any election at which Presidential and Vice Presidential electors or a Senator or Representative in, or a Delegate or Resident commissioner to Congress are to be voted for...
Page 206 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?