The Riddle of the Sphinx: A Discussion of the Economic Questions Relating to Agriculture, Land, Transportation, Money, Taxation, and Cost of Interchange ...Hyperion Press, 1975 - 479 pages |
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Page 112
... practically free from competi- tion for a stretch of 1,800 miles across the continent . They were independent of many of those disturbing ele- ments which have been pleaded in extenuation of the vicious practices of railroads in other ...
... practically free from competi- tion for a stretch of 1,800 miles across the continent . They were independent of many of those disturbing ele- ments which have been pleaded in extenuation of the vicious practices of railroads in other ...
Page 132
... practically became figure - heads , either through false sympathies , or because powerless to execute their own orders . This , at least , was the strait into which Iowa fell ; and de- spite the principle of control , discrimination ...
... practically became figure - heads , either through false sympathies , or because powerless to execute their own orders . This , at least , was the strait into which Iowa fell ; and de- spite the principle of control , discrimination ...
Page 196
... practically no imports because of prohibitive duties , and to raise them on those classes in which importation still continued , to nearly as prohibitive a point as possible . The ad valorem duties were taken off from wool . The brewers ...
... practically no imports because of prohibitive duties , and to raise them on those classes in which importation still continued , to nearly as prohibitive a point as possible . The ad valorem duties were taken off from wool . The brewers ...
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acres agriculture Alliance and Industrial amount Bessemer process capital cattle centralization cents per pound charges Chicago circulating medium claim co-operative combination commerce committee commodities companies condition Congress consumer corporations cost debt demand dollars duty equal Europe fact farm favor fiat money forced gold and silver grants hence increase indirect taxes Industrial Union interest Iowa issue labor Leadville League legislation less levied loan Macune manufacturers medium of exchange ment mile millions mortgage National Farmers National Grange Nebraska officers Omaha organization paid paper money payment Pelasgians population present profits proposed prosperity protection public domain public lands purchase purpose railroad railways rates revenues roads Secretary secure sell speculator sub-treasury plan sumer tariff taxation taxes tion transportation Union Pacific Union Pacific Railroad Union Pacific Railway United volume of money volume of trade wealth whole wool