Life and Distinguished Services of Hon. Wm. McKinley and the Great Issues of 1896: Containing Also a Sketch of the Life of Garret A. HobartEdgewood Publishing Company, 1896 - 501 pages |
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... notes while he has been in public life he has supported . He supported the Act for the resumption of specie pay- ments and the successful accomplishment of that measure . I know of no act or vote or speech of his inconsistent with this ...
... notes while he has been in public life he has supported . He supported the Act for the resumption of specie pay- ments and the successful accomplishment of that measure . I know of no act or vote or speech of his inconsistent with this ...
Page 107
... notes , which he proposed to have discounted . Without investigating or inquiring into the matter Major McKinley in- stantly consented . He only knew that his old friend , the man who stood by him in early years , AND THE GREAT ISSUES ...
... notes , which he proposed to have discounted . Without investigating or inquiring into the matter Major McKinley in- stantly consented . He only knew that his old friend , the man who stood by him in early years , AND THE GREAT ISSUES ...
Page 108
... notes were made payable in thirty , sixty , and ninety days , and Major McKinley indorsed , as he supposed , about ... notes , but he understood that fully half of them were made out to take up notes which he had first endorsed and which ...
... notes were made payable in thirty , sixty , and ninety days , and Major McKinley indorsed , as he supposed , about ... notes , but he understood that fully half of them were made out to take up notes which he had first endorsed and which ...
Page 109
... notes were still unpaid and the new notes had doubled , trebled , quintupled the debt . The Walker liabili- ties were about $ 200,000 and the assets not half that sum . After the conference with his Youngstown friends Major McKinley ...
... notes were still unpaid and the new notes had doubled , trebled , quintupled the debt . The Walker liabili- ties were about $ 200,000 and the assets not half that sum . After the conference with his Youngstown friends Major McKinley ...
Page 110
... notes and pay them as fast as I can . I shall retire from politics , take up the practice of law , and begin all over again . " The news of the disaster , and the stand taken by McKinley and his wife , created a feeling of sympathy ...
... notes and pay them as fast as I can . I shall retire from politics , take up the practice of law , and begin all over again . " The news of the disaster , and the stand taken by McKinley and his wife , created a feeling of sympathy ...
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Page 306 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Page 306 - And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people on whom he also obtruded them : thus paying off former crimes committed against the LIBERTIES of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the LIVES of another...
Page 378 - OUR fathers' God ! from out whose hand The centuries fall like grains of sand, We meet to-day, united, free, And loyal to our land and Thee, To thank Thee for the era done, And trust Thee for the opening one.
Page 306 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain.
Page 145 - Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Page 146 - We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant, wiser; and all better, and happier together.
Page 381 - American policy of discriminating duties for the upbuilding of our merchant marine and the protection of our shipping in the foreign carrying trade, so that American ships — the product of American labor, employed in American shipyards, sailing under the stars and stripes, and manned, officered, and owned by Americans — may regain the carrying of our foreign commerce.
Page 379 - ... in time of peace, forced an adverse balance of trade, kept a perpetual menace hanging over the redemption fund, pawned American credit to alien syndicates, and reversed all the measures and results of successful Republican rule. In the broad effect of its policy it has precipitated panic, blighted industry and trade with prolonged depression, closed factories, reduced work and wages, halted enterprise, and crippled American production while stimulating foreign production for the American market.
Page 382 - Our foreign policy should be at all times firm, vigorous, and dignified, and all our interests in the Western Hemisphere carefully watched and guarded. The Hawaiian Islands should be controlled by the United States, and no foreign power should be permitted to interfere with them...
Page 173 - ... the established policy of the United States to maintain the two metals on a parity with each other upon the present legal ratio, or such ratio as may be provided by law.