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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... wealth faster than ever before . In view of the increase of price to consumers by trusts , and of their tendency to lower prices paid to farmers , there seems to be more reason for the complaint , usually exagger- ated , that trusts tax ...
... wealth faster than ever before . In view of the increase of price to consumers by trusts , and of their tendency to lower prices paid to farmers , there seems to be more reason for the complaint , usually exagger- ated , that trusts tax ...
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... wealth that people would otherwise save , or use in buying additional goods . The wire nail pool in 1895-96 , known to be temporary , reaped its gains quickly , holding for a year at $ 3 per hundred a price raised from $ 1.45 . The ...
... wealth that people would otherwise save , or use in buying additional goods . The wire nail pool in 1895-96 , known to be temporary , reaped its gains quickly , holding for a year at $ 3 per hundred a price raised from $ 1.45 . The ...
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... wealth are dis- posed to follow his example , buying shares in corporations already strong . Besides , against ... wealthy America , capacity to conduct a large business may be cornered to a considerable extent . Men possessing this ...
... wealth are dis- posed to follow his example , buying shares in corporations already strong . Besides , against ... wealthy America , capacity to conduct a large business may be cornered to a considerable extent . Men possessing this ...
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... toward a new line into Omaha , with which it was already connected by four roads . ( A. G. Warner , P. S. Quarterly , 1891. ) serves of timber . Such sources of wealth are limited 40 The Plain Facts as to the Trusts .
... toward a new line into Omaha , with which it was already connected by four roads . ( A. G. Warner , P. S. Quarterly , 1891. ) serves of timber . Such sources of wealth are limited 40 The Plain Facts as to the Trusts .
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... wealth are limited . A monopoly price for a scarce mineral , though the mine operators remain competitors , may be maintained by the railroads , through an agreement on freight charges , which must be added to the consumer's price ...
... wealth are limited . A monopoly price for a scarce mineral , though the mine operators remain competitors , may be maintained by the railroads , through an agreement on freight charges , which must be added to the consumer's price ...
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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...