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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adjustment ALLAN NEVINS American became capital Challenge of Facts civil liberty COCHRANE AND MILLER competition conception cooperation currency demands democracy Democrats doctrine Earth Hunger economic element Essays ethical evolution experience farmers federal fittest folkways forces Forgotten gold Grange greenbacks HENRY STEELE COMMANGER human Ibid individual industrial institutions interests issue Knights of Labor laissez-faire land legislation life-conditions living LOUIS HACKER marriage masses means middle class monandry monopoly moral MORRISON and HENRY nation natural law organization party plutocracy political Populists poverty Powderly produce Pullman strike railroads regulation result ROBERT HUNTER SAMUEL ELIOT MORRISON Science of Society selection self-maintenance Senate silver social Social Darwinism Sociology strike struggle for existence SUMNER and KELLER survival taboo TARBELL tariff THOMAS COCHRAN tion Union VERNON LOUIS PARRINGTON wages wealth William Graham Sumner workers York