William Graham Sumner, Volume 2University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1954 - 758 pages |
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Page 151
... railroads during this period was nearly ten billion dollars . While most of this effort was concentrated on fill- ing in the links east of the Mississippi the railroad building which set the model for business activity in this era was ...
... railroads during this period was nearly ten billion dollars . While most of this effort was concentrated on fill- ing in the links east of the Mississippi the railroad building which set the model for business activity in this era was ...
Page 165
... railroads and middlemen , the tariff and the tax system . The railroads became the particular object of the farmers wrath . The farmers anger was enhanced by the arrogance of railroad management which was shielding it- self from ...
... railroads and middlemen , the tariff and the tax system . The railroads became the particular object of the farmers wrath . The farmers anger was enhanced by the arrogance of railroad management which was shielding it- self from ...
Page 213
... railroad point of view ex- clusively it ( repeal ) would not be a wise thing to undertake .... attempt would not be likely to ... railroads , at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal . Further , the older such a ...
... railroad point of view ex- clusively it ( repeal ) would not be a wise thing to undertake .... attempt would not be likely to ... railroads , at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal . Further , the older such a ...
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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