William Graham Sumner, Volume 2University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1954 - 758 pages |
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Page 211
... legislation of the 60's and 70's , agents of railroads bribed the legislative committees or the com- missioners whose task it was to set rates , or to make sure only men j 1 1 friendly to railroads reached legislative halls . 211 This ...
... legislation of the 60's and 70's , agents of railroads bribed the legislative committees or the com- missioners whose task it was to set rates , or to make sure only men j 1 1 friendly to railroads reached legislative halls . 211 This ...
Page 220
... legislative forces of Big Business were led in the Senate by Nelson Aldrich and in the House by the Speaker , Joe Cannon . And under their leadership effective railroad legislation was blocked until 1910 , tariff reduction until 1913 ...
... legislative forces of Big Business were led in the Senate by Nelson Aldrich and in the House by the Speaker , Joe Cannon . And under their leadership effective railroad legislation was blocked until 1910 , tariff reduction until 1913 ...
Page 232
... legislation more completely reverses the whole proper object of legislation , or more thoroughly subverts civil order ( civil liberty ) " . 5 Before the presidential election of 1896 Sumner ran a series of essays in Leslie's Weekly . In ...
... legislation more completely reverses the whole proper object of legislation , or more thoroughly subverts civil order ( civil liberty ) " . 5 Before the presidential election of 1896 Sumner ran a series of essays in Leslie's Weekly . In ...
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