The Menace of Privilege: A Study of the Dangers to the Republic from the Existence of a Favored ClassMacmillan, 1905 - 421 páginas |
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Página 57
... legislative inquiry are as nothing beside the revelations of power vested in a few hands and the way that power is used to control concentrated power elsewhere . The Equitable Assurance Society , for instance , has ledger assets and ...
... legislative inquiry are as nothing beside the revelations of power vested in a few hands and the way that power is used to control concentrated power elsewhere . The Equitable Assurance Society , for instance , has ledger assets and ...
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... Legislative Investigating Committee in New York , that his banking house had sold many million dollars ' worth of securities to the Equitable . Mr. Schiff is and was during these transac- tions on the finance committee of the Equitable ...
... Legislative Investigating Committee in New York , that his banking house had sold many million dollars ' worth of securities to the Equitable . Mr. Schiff is and was during these transac- tions on the finance committee of the Equitable ...
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... legislative fund " to effect legislation " ? Observe the things that are to be seen in railroad , tariff and currency legislation at Washington . Take the in- stance of the bond issue in 1893. The industrial depres- sion coming on and ...
... legislative fund " to effect legislation " ? Observe the things that are to be seen in railroad , tariff and currency legislation at Washington . Take the in- stance of the bond issue in 1893. The industrial depres- sion coming on and ...
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... legislative investigation that his company , not wishing to have the public find a certain investment of $ 800,000 in the bonds of the International Mercantile Marine Company , ex- changed those bonds on December 31 , 1903 , with J. P. ...
... legislative investigation that his company , not wishing to have the public find a certain investment of $ 800,000 in the bonds of the International Mercantile Marine Company , ex- changed those bonds on December 31 , 1903 , with J. P. ...
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... legislative exemptions or modifica- tions of penalty , so that , while a man caught " making a book " outside of a racing corporation's fence would be sentenced to two years ' imprison- ment , for doing the same thing inside that fence ...
... legislative exemptions or modifica- tions of penalty , so that , while a man caught " making a book " outside of a racing corporation's fence would be sentenced to two years ' imprison- ment , for doing the same thing inside that fence ...
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Página 348 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
Página 285 - And if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free': Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.
Página 288 - Raca, shall be in danger of the council : but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire. Therefore, if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
Página 236 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Página 356 - sacredness of property" is talked of, it should always be remembered, that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property. No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species. Its appropriation is wholly a question of general expediency. When private property in land is not expedient, it is unjust.
Página 348 - Ah! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule, and universal Peace Lie like a shaft of light across the land, And like a lane of beams athwart the sea, Thro' all the circle of the golden year?
Página 285 - If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
Página 63 - The people have a saying, that God Almighty is himself a mechanic, the greatest in the universe; and he is respected and admired more for the variety, ingenuity, and utility of his handiworks, than for the antiquity of his family.
Página 294 - If, in the opinion •of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation ; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance. in permanent evil, any partial or transient benefit which the use can...
Página 315 - Any country whose people conduct themselves well can count upon our hearty friendship. If a nation shows that it knows how to act with reasonable efficiency and decency in social and political matters, if it keeps order and pays its obligations, it need fear no interference from the United States.