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... RAILROAD MEN XXIV . RAILROADS • XXV . WALL STREET AND WALL STREET BANKERS XXVI . AMERICAN WOMEN • . XXVII . THE LAWYERS . · 156 161 168 · • 173 · 189 194 211 221 · 227 XXVIII . COÖPERATION OF THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN 232 PART ...
... RAILROAD MEN XXIV . RAILROADS • XXV . WALL STREET AND WALL STREET BANKERS XXVI . AMERICAN WOMEN • . XXVII . THE LAWYERS . · 156 161 168 · • 173 · 189 194 211 221 · 227 XXVIII . COÖPERATION OF THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN 232 PART ...
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... railroad freight charges took more than a fair share of the value of wheat , corn , beef , and pork , Congress organized the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate rates so that the farmer might not be deprived of the profit of his ...
... railroad freight charges took more than a fair share of the value of wheat , corn , beef , and pork , Congress organized the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate rates so that the farmer might not be deprived of the profit of his ...
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... railroads , its central position , and its indomitable enterprise . The spirit of New England Puritanism was duty , not pleasure . That spirit predominates today in Americans of colonial descent . Nor has the New England spirit of ...
... railroads , its central position , and its indomitable enterprise . The spirit of New England Puritanism was duty , not pleasure . That spirit predominates today in Americans of colonial descent . Nor has the New England spirit of ...
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... railroad through the mountain ranges cleft at Albany . The Erie Canal , furnishing the cheapest and easiest outlet for western produce , soon made New York City easily the chief city of the country . Trade has built up trade until now ...
... railroad through the mountain ranges cleft at Albany . The Erie Canal , furnishing the cheapest and easiest outlet for western produce , soon made New York City easily the chief city of the country . Trade has built up trade until now ...
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... railroad locomotive were invented , New York went to the front . 1 New York at the close of the Revolutionary War drove out thousands of its Loyalist inhabitants . President Falconer of the Toronto University says : " It has been ...
... railroad locomotive were invented , New York went to the front . 1 New York at the close of the Revolutionary War drove out thousands of its Loyalist inhabitants . President Falconer of the Toronto University says : " It has been ...
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Page 386 - I do not think the United States would come to an end if we lost our power to declare an Act of Congress void. I do think the Union would be imperiled if we could not make that declaration as to the laws of the several States.
Page 250 - If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed,. that event may be attributed to the unlimited authority of the majority, which may at some future time urge the minorities to desperation, and oblige them to have recourse to physical force. Anarchy will then be the result, but it will have been brought about by despotism.
Page 2 - And since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally, staked on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
Page 301 - The annual quota of any nationality for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1927, and for each fiscal year thereafter, shall be a number which bears the same ratio to 150,000 as the number of inhabitants in continental United States in. 1920...
Page 322 - Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered but to be schooled.
Page 131 - The first Jesuits were Jews : that mysterious Russian Diplomacy which so alarms Western Europe is organised and principally carried on by Jews ; that mighty revolution which is at this moment preparing in Germany, and which will be, in fact, a second and greater Reformation, and of which so little is as yet known in England, is entirely developing under the auspices of Jews...
Page 235 - It is quite plain that your government will never be able to restrain a distressed and discontented majority. For with you the majority is the government, and has the rich, who are always a minority, absolutely at its mercy. The day will come when in the state of New York a multitude of people, none of whom has had more than half a breakfast, or expects to have more than half a dinner, will choose a legislature.
Page 186 - There is no exception to the rule that every organic being naturally increases at so high a rate that, if not destroyed, the earth would soon be covered by the progeny of a single pair.
Page 254 - I think the authors of that notable instrument intended to include all men, but they did not intend to declare all men equal in all respects. They did not mean to say all were equal in color, size, intellect, moral developments, or social capacity.
Page 43 - These five contributions to civilization — peace-keeping, religious toleration, the development of manhood suffrage, the welcoming of new-comers, and the diffusion of well-being — I hold to have been eminently characteristic of our country, and so important that, in spite of the qualifications and deductions which every candid citizen would admit with regard to every one of them, they will ever be held in the grateful remembrance of mankind. They are reasonable grounds for a steady, glowing patriotism....