Democratic Campaign Book: Presidential Election of 1896Hartman & Cadick, 1896 - 383 pages |
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Page 47
... single appropriations separated by long intervals . The Tarift . It is not necessary to discuss the tariff question at this ime . Whatever may be the individual view of citizens as to the relative merits of protection and tariff reform ...
... single appropriations separated by long intervals . The Tarift . It is not necessary to discuss the tariff question at this ime . Whatever may be the individual view of citizens as to the relative merits of protection and tariff reform ...
Page 52
... single gold standard . There never was one written which treat- ed of the subject at all that did not profess favor for silver coinage . The great parties vied with each other in professing favor for bimetallism , for the concurrent use ...
... single gold standard . There never was one written which treat- ed of the subject at all that did not profess favor for silver coinage . The great parties vied with each other in professing favor for bimetallism , for the concurrent use ...
Page 53
... single utterance even intimating that we ought to consult England or any other nation about our fiscal policy or that we should demonetize silver be cause England had . We then numbered about 10,000,000 people . We are now 70,000,000 ...
... single utterance even intimating that we ought to consult England or any other nation about our fiscal policy or that we should demonetize silver be cause England had . We then numbered about 10,000,000 people . We are now 70,000,000 ...
Page 54
... single gold standard until an international agree . ment with the leading commercial nations can be obtained . This is the pledge : " Until such " ( International ) " agreement can be obtained the existing gold standard must be ...
... single gold standard until an international agree . ment with the leading commercial nations can be obtained . This is the pledge : " Until such " ( International ) " agreement can be obtained the existing gold standard must be ...
Page 60
... single nation instead of those of the whole world . Nothing is more effective in misleading and deceiving the common people . than an apparently logical conclusion derived from a false premise . For instance , a demagogue may appear to ...
... single nation instead of those of the whole world . Nothing is more effective in misleading and deceiving the common people . than an apparently logical conclusion derived from a false premise . For instance , a demagogue may appear to ...
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Page 228 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 244 - SEC. 4. The several circuit courts of the United States are hereby invested with jurisdiction to prevent and restrain violations of this act; and it shall be the duty of the several district attorneys of the United States, in their respective districts, under the direction of the attorney-general, to institute proceedings in equity to prevent and restrain such violations.
Page 48 - ... the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies; the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Page 48 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political ; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none...
Page 228 - Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Page 228 - No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty ; none less inclined to take or touch aught which they have not honestly earned. Let them beware of surrendering a political power which they already possess, and which, if surrendered, will surely be used to close the door of advancement against such as they, and to fix new disabilities and burdens upon them, till all of liberty shall be lost.
Page 49 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened; the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith...
Page 245 - State to another, or to a foreign country, shall be forfeited to the United States, and may be seized and condemned by like proceedings as those provided by law for the forfeiture, seizure, and condemnation of property Imported into the United States contrary to law.
Page 181 - ... aggression upon its rights and interests, the appropriation by Great Britain of any lands or the exercise of governmental jurisdiction over any territory which after investigation we have determined of right belongs to Venezuela. "In making these recommendations I am fully alive to the responsibility incurred, and keenly realize all the consequences that may follow.
Page 180 - When such report is made and accepted it will, in my opinion, be the duty of the United States to resist by every means in its power,, as a willful aggression upon its rights and interests, the appropriation by Great Britain of any lands or the exercise of governmental jurisdiction over any territory which after investigation we have determined of right belongs to Venezuela.