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 vii
... the social and political , mental and moral manifesta- tions that appear so ominous in the Republic . The monopoly of natural opportunites , heavy taxes upon pro- duction , private ownership of public highways and other lesser vii.
... the social and political , mental and moral manifesta- tions that appear so ominous in the Republic . The monopoly of natural opportunites , heavy taxes upon pro- duction , private ownership of public highways and other lesser vii.
Página viii
... monopoly from free access to natural opportunities , and robbed of and taxed on the fruits of their labor at every turn , they have been reduced to an intense competition for a living . In the skilled trades they have organized into ...
... monopoly from free access to natural opportunities , and robbed of and taxed on the fruits of their labor at every turn , they have been reduced to an intense competition for a living . In the skilled trades they have organized into ...
Página ix
... monopoly to death , thereby enabling the remission of all taxation now embarrassing production , and take all public highway functions into public hands , and the main causes of the unequal distribution of wealth would be removed . The ...
... monopoly to death , thereby enabling the remission of all taxation now embarrassing production , and take all public highway functions into public hands , and the main causes of the unequal distribution of wealth would be removed . The ...
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... monopoly which destroyed Rome . In Rome's early , hardy , virtuous , independent , republican days the principle of equal rights to the soil was recognized in a way suited to a primitive agricultural community . Each citizen had his ...
... monopoly which destroyed Rome . In Rome's early , hardy , virtuous , independent , republican days the principle of equal rights to the soil was recognized in a way suited to a primitive agricultural community . Each citizen had his ...
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... monopoly . While ostensibly for general benefit , it has been in effect a privilege or private law — an institution for the gain of chance individuals and to the general loss . - was It was against this state of things as much as ...
... monopoly . While ostensibly for general benefit , it has been in effect a privilege or private law — an institution for the gain of chance individuals and to the general loss . - was It was against this state of things as much as ...
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American American Railway Union anthracite coal aristocracy Association Astor called capital Carnegie cent Chicago citizens civil coal Colorado competition Congress Constitution corporations corruption court of equity Democracy in America economic rent election equal favor Federal fortune Government Governor grants hands increase industrial injunction interest Jefferson John Judge jury labor unions land lege legislative Legislature living mass means ment military millions miners monopoly moral nation natural opportunities newspaper obtained organized owners ownership party Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Railroad persons political population possession poverty practically President Princes of Privilege principle privi production railroad rebate rent Republic rich road Rockefeller Senator social soldiers Standard Oil Company Steel Trust strike Supreme Court tariff things tion trade unions United United States Senator wages wealth workmen York York City
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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.