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 viii
... protect and extend the favors that are its life , Privilege further endeavors to control politics by corruption , and to influence public opinion through purchase or intimidation of the press and through viii Preface.
... protect and extend the favors that are its life , Privilege further endeavors to control politics by corruption , and to influence public opinion through purchase or intimidation of the press and through viii Preface.
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... protected by the Christian men to whom God in His infinite wisdom has given the prop- erty interests of the country . " Whether or not President Baer said this , it represents the thought , or at least the utterance , of a certain class ...
... protected by the Christian men to whom God in His infinite wisdom has given the prop- erty interests of the country . " Whether or not President Baer said this , it represents the thought , or at least the utterance , of a certain class ...
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... protected land mo- nopoly . They were as distinctly to the advantage of par- ticular persons as if private acts had been passed by the Roman Senate and sanctioned by the Tribunes . In the same way our institution of private land owner ...
... protected land mo- nopoly . They were as distinctly to the advantage of par- ticular persons as if private acts had been passed by the Roman Senate and sanctioned by the Tribunes . In the same way our institution of private land owner ...
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... protecting " Ameri- can workmen and of enabling employers to pay high wages ! In March , 1900 , the various " Carnegie interests " were merged into one corporation - The Carnegie Company with a capital stock of $ 160,000,000 , and a ...
... protecting " Ameri- can workmen and of enabling employers to pay high wages ! In March , 1900 , the various " Carnegie interests " were merged into one corporation - The Carnegie Company with a capital stock of $ 160,000,000 , and a ...
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... that of transportation and other privileges ? And these privileges and powers give them potency in legislation by which to protect what they have and to acquire new privileges and powers . This is 58 The Menace of Privilege.
... that of transportation and other privileges ? And these privileges and powers give them potency in legislation by which to protect what they have and to acquire new privileges and powers . This is 58 The Menace of Privilege.
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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.