Doing Us Good and PlentyC. H. Kerr, 1914 - 172 sider |
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Side 5
... Americans , tariff reform wasn't the thing , after all , was it ? Do you remember how we were told year after year that the abominable tariff was the root of all our troubles ? It was the tariff that increased the cost of living ; it ...
... Americans , tariff reform wasn't the thing , after all , was it ? Do you remember how we were told year after year that the abominable tariff was the root of all our troubles ? It was the tariff that increased the cost of living ; it ...
Side 6
... American packer having no competition , could charge us what he pleased . That was the reason why meat was dear . There was an import duty on wool ; that was the reason why clothing was so dear . There was an import duty on sugar ; that ...
... American packer having no competition , could charge us what he pleased . That was the reason why meat was dear . There was an import duty on wool ; that was the reason why clothing was so dear . There was an import duty on sugar ; that ...
Side 8
... America is con- stantly growing poorer . Every year he must pay more for practically everything he buys , and whatever good luck he may have had in securing an increase of wages the prices have soared faster than his income . Every ...
... America is con- stantly growing poorer . Every year he must pay more for practically everything he buys , and whatever good luck he may have had in securing an increase of wages the prices have soared faster than his income . Every ...
Side 13
... American communities . In New York the charitable societies estimated that there were 350,000 men without employment , and it was admitted that the resources of the city govern- ment and of private charity were utterly un- able to cope ...
... American communities . In New York the charitable societies estimated that there were 350,000 men without employment , and it was admitted that the resources of the city govern- ment and of private charity were utterly un- able to cope ...
Side 15
... America . The number of farms had increased 11 per cent . since 1910. The total number in 1913 was 6,600,000 . So we have been going back to the land , and we have been applying this far - famed remedy , and these are the results . I do ...
... America . The number of farms had increased 11 per cent . since 1910. The total number in 1913 was 6,600,000 . So we have been going back to the land , and we have been applying this far - famed remedy , and these are the results . I do ...
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Side 165 - or horticultural organizations, orders or associations instituted for the purposes of mutual help, and not having capital stock or conducted for profit, or to forbid or restrain individual members of such organizations, orders or associations from carrying out the legitimate objects thereof.
Side 165 - read as follows: That nothing contained in the Antitrust laws shall be construed to forbid the existence and operation of fraternal, labor, consumers, agricultural or horticultural organizations, orders or associations instituted for the purposes of mutual help, and not having capital stock or conducted for profit, or to forbid or restrain individual members of such organizations, orders or associations from carrying out the legitimate objects thereof.
Side 166 - instituted for the purposes of mutual help, and not having capital stock or conducted for profit, or to forbid or restrain individual members of such organizations, orders or associations
Side 18 - It is said that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew is a public benefactor, but we are offering mighty poor encouragement for the two-blade production if the two blades bring less money than the one would have brought.
Side 111 - Until these things are done, conscientious business men the country over will be unsatisfied. They are in these things our mentors and colleagues. We are now about to write the additional articles of our constitution of peace — the peace that is honor and freedom and prosperity. In
Side 124 - the attempt to control utterances of the press by subsidizing reporters; payment of money and the profligate issue of free passes to legislators and their friends; the investment of $400,000 in securities of a New England newspaper; the regular employment of political bosses in Rhode Island and other states, not for
Side 166 - shall apply to fraternal, labor, consumers, agricultural or horticultural organizations, orders or associations instituted for the purposes of mutual help, and not having capital stock or conducted for profit, or to forbid or restrain individual members of such organizations, orders or associations
Side 125 - for $1,032,000 of the funds of the New Haven entrusted to him in carrying out the Westchester proposition; the story of Mr. Mellen as to the distribution of $1,200,000 for corrupt purposes in bringing about amendments of the Westchester and
Side 123 - Marked features and significant incidents in the loose, extravagant, and improvident administration of the finances of the New Haven as shown in this investigation are the Boston & Maine despoilment; the