The New PacificBancroft Company, 1899 - 733 pages |
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Page 4
... gold - seekers going up and down its course , their number increasing , and the region never again to lapse into its former frozen silence . It was only ten years ago when transportation throughout all Alaska was mainly by light boats ...
... gold - seekers going up and down its course , their number increasing , and the region never again to lapse into its former frozen silence . It was only ten years ago when transportation throughout all Alaska was mainly by light boats ...
Page 8
... gold and silver north of the present boundary line of Mexico and west of the Missis- sippi river was scarcely known ; since which time some $ 6,000 , - 000,000 in metals have been given by this region to the world , an amount equivalent ...
... gold and silver north of the present boundary line of Mexico and west of the Missis- sippi river was scarcely known ; since which time some $ 6,000 , - 000,000 in metals have been given by this region to the world , an amount equivalent ...
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... gold ; the largest production of silver except that of 1892 ; the largest gold holdings ; the largest per capita circulation of money ; largest aggregate bank clearings ; largest aggregate railroad earnings ; largest aggregate sale of ...
... gold ; the largest production of silver except that of 1892 ; the largest gold holdings ; the largest per capita circulation of money ; largest aggregate bank clearings ; largest aggregate railroad earnings ; largest aggregate sale of ...
Page 238
... gold which came rolling in upon them in great waves , turning artisans into advent- urers , until manufactures ceased , and commerce was greatly crippled . The more immediate effect of the New World on Spain was like that of an ...
... gold which came rolling in upon them in great waves , turning artisans into advent- urers , until manufactures ceased , and commerce was greatly crippled . The more immediate effect of the New World on Spain was like that of an ...
Page 239
... gold from America saved them from . So they came to despise work , and to regard it as disgraceful . A writer in Blackwood speak- ing of Spanish officialism and the Spaniard's idea of work , says : " Meditating on the exposure of ...
... gold from America saved them from . So they came to despise work , and to regard it as disgraceful . A writer in Blackwood speak- ing of Spanish officialism and the Spaniard's idea of work , says : " Meditating on the exposure of ...
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Page 164 - The Inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States ; and in the meantime they shall be maintained!
Page 143 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Page 191 - ... prepare them for local self-government, and in due time to make such disposition of said islands as will best promote the interests of the citizens of the United States and the inhabitants of said islands.
Page 168 - 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. America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe, and peculiarly her own. She should therefore have a system of her own, separate and apart from that of Europe.
Page 302 - It is true I cannot prevent the introduction of the flowing poison ; gain-seeking and corrupt men will for profit and sensuality, defeat my wishes ; but nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people.
Page 45 - I shall refer to these horrible things no further. They are there. God pity me ; I have seen them ; they will remain in my mind forever — and this is almost the twentieth century. Christ died nineteen hundred years ago, and Spain is a Christian nation. She has set up more crosses in more lands, beneath more skies, and under them 'has butchered more people than all the other nations of the earth combined. Europe may tolerate her existence as long as the people of the Old World wish.
Page 618 - The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free ; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea...
Page 220 - I even go so far as to say that, terrible as war may be, even war itself would be cheaply purchased if in a great and noble cause the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack should wave together over an Anglo-Saxon alliance.