The Plain Facts as to the Trusts and the Tariff: With Chapters on the Railroad Problem and Municipal MonopoliesMacmillan, 1902 - 451 pages |
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... better or worse in the conditions by which he is directly affected . Could he not carry his thinking to causes further back - to conditions that affect him less closely ? When evil , the former conditions , such as an ordinary fall in ...
... better or worse in the conditions by which he is directly affected . Could he not carry his thinking to causes further back - to conditions that affect him less closely ? When evil , the former conditions , such as an ordinary fall in ...
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... , formed to unite control of the companies it absorbed , such as the Fort Wayne and the Panhandle , with the original Pennsylvania proper . monopoly , the better as a rule are its immediate 12 The Plain Facts as to the Trusts .
... , formed to unite control of the companies it absorbed , such as the Fort Wayne and the Panhandle , with the original Pennsylvania proper . monopoly , the better as a rule are its immediate 12 The Plain Facts as to the Trusts .
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... better as a rule are its immediate chances to get high prices from consumers , and the greater its power to keep competitors out of its field . Though the word monopoly originally meant control of the whole supply , cases of absolute ...
... better as a rule are its immediate chances to get high prices from consumers , and the greater its power to keep competitors out of its field . Though the word monopoly originally meant control of the whole supply , cases of absolute ...
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... better the goods it can produce . When capital and trade reach largest proportions , the labor of highest skill , and the world's best materials , are at ready command . Scientific experts of the first rank may then be employed , to ...
... better the goods it can produce . When capital and trade reach largest proportions , the labor of highest skill , and the world's best materials , are at ready command . Scientific experts of the first rank may then be employed , to ...
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... better ? Scattered holders of a few shares act less than they are acted upon . Instead of helping to direct a business , they only add to the capital and power centralized with the few by whom a trust is controlled . Safer means of ...
... better ? Scattered holders of a few shares act less than they are acted upon . Instead of helping to direct a business , they only add to the capital and power centralized with the few by whom a trust is controlled . Safer means of ...
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Page 302 - To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should ever be established in it.
Page 305 - Our capacity to produce has developed so enormously and our products have so multiplied that the problem of more markets requires our urgent and immediate attention. Only a broad and enlightened policy will keep what we have. No other policy will get more.
Page 305 - 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 the fancied security that we can forever sell everything and buy little or nothing.
Page 305 - If perchance some of our tariffs are no longer needed for revenue or to encourage and protect our industries at home, why should they not be employed to extend and promote our markets abroad?
Page 137 - Our interests are at bottom common; in the long run we go up or go down together. Yet more and more it is evident that the State, and, if necessary, the nation, has got to possess the right of supervision and control as regards the great corporations which are its creatures; particularly as regards the great business combinations which derive a portion of their importance from the existence of some monopolistic tendency. The right should be exercised with caution and self-restraint, but it should...
Page 71 - There is probably no one thing to-day which does so much to force out the small operator, and to build up those trusts and monopolies against which law and public opinion alike beat in vain, as discrimination in freight rates.
Page 154 - That combinations and conspiracies, in the form of trusts or otherwise in restraint of trade or production, which by the consensus of judicial opinion are unlawful, should be so declared by legislation uniform in all jurisdictions, and as to all persons, and such statutes should be thoroughly enforced.
Page 123 - ... sleight of hand by which the marvel has been produced, the key to the riddle which has amazed and alarmed the nation. If these combinations were deprived of special and exclusive rates there is little doubt that they would be shorn of their greatest strength and lose their dangerous supremacy. Indeed, I think it scarcely too much to say that no alliance of capital, no aggregation of productive forces, would prove of real or at least of permanent disadvantage if rigidly subjected to just and impartial...