The Meaning of the Times: And Other SpeechesBobbs-Merrill Company, 1908 - 431 páginas |
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... · · • • • • 289 DUTIES OF THe Present ; NOT MEMORIES OF THE PAST • 293 CHILD LABOR • • 308 THE NATIONAL FOREST SERVICE · 368 STATE AND NATION • 404 THE MEANING OF THE TIMES · 420 INTRODUCTION The volume before us contains some of the ...
... · · • • • • 289 DUTIES OF THe Present ; NOT MEMORIES OF THE PAST • 293 CHILD LABOR • • 308 THE NATIONAL FOREST SERVICE · 368 STATE AND NATION • 404 THE MEANING OF THE TIMES · 420 INTRODUCTION The volume before us contains some of the ...
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... labor , which this develop- ment makes necessary ; the shrinking of the very globe itself by these same agencies , until nations are neighbors and alien peoples are at elbow touch ; the new problems and novel responsibilities which all ...
... labor , which this develop- ment makes necessary ; the shrinking of the very globe itself by these same agencies , until nations are neighbors and alien peoples are at elbow touch ; the new problems and novel responsibilities which all ...
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... Labor is the superior of capital , and deserves much higher consideration ; " but " capital has its rights , which are as worthy of protection as any other rights . " That was Lincoln's idea - those are his words . Labor is as necessary ...
... Labor is the superior of capital , and deserves much higher consideration ; " but " capital has its rights , which are as worthy of protection as any other rights . " That was Lincoln's idea - those are his words . Labor is as necessary ...
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... labor , and the cost of supplies to the injury of the whole country . " These are Lincoln's words and their keenness cuts the heart out of inflation . History and thought had taught Abraham Lincoln that inflated prices mean immediate ...
... labor , and the cost of supplies to the injury of the whole country . " These are Lincoln's words and their keenness cuts the heart out of inflation . History and thought had taught Abraham Lincoln that inflated prices mean immediate ...
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... labor , currency and commerce . He knew that labor is hunger personified if unemployed ; that currency is the script and chips of gamblers if un- steady in value ; that commerce begins to die the moment it ceases to expand . And so , to ...
... labor , currency and commerce . He knew that labor is hunger personified if unemployed ; that currency is the script and chips of gamblers if un- steady in value ; that commerce begins to die the moment it ceases to expand . And so , to ...
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Página 295 - The wisdom and the discretion of congress, their identity with the people, and the influence which their constituents possess at elections are in this, as in many other instances, — as that, for example, of declaring war, — the sole restraints on which they have relied to secure them from its abuse. They are the restraints on which the people must often rely solely in all representative governments.
Página 63 - They are legislative courts, created in virtue of the general right of sovereignty which exists in the government, or in virtue of that clause which enables congress to make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory belonging to the United States.
Página 19 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Página 31 - The payment of this, principal and interest, as well as the return to a specie basis as soon as it can be accomplished without material detriment to the debtor class or to the country at large, must be provided for. To protect the national honor, every dollar of Government indebtedness should be paid in gold, unless otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract.
Página 7 - The government of the Union, then (whatever may be the influence of this fact on the case), is emphatically and truly a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit.
Página 10 - And here it is to be observed it is not indispensable to the existence of any power claimed for the Federal government that it can be found specified in the words of the Constitution, or clearly and directly traceable to some one of the specified powers. Its existence may be deduced fairly from more than one of the substantive powers expressly defined, or from them all combined. It is allowable to group together any number of them and infer from them all that the power claimed has been conferred.
Página 25 - A return to specie payments, however, at the earliest period compatible with due regard to all interests concerned, should ever be kept in view. Fluctuations in the value of currency are always injurious, and to reduce these fluctuations to the lowest possible point will always be a leading purpose in wise legislation.
Página 289 - All goods, wares, articles, and merchandise mined, produced, or manufactured wholly or in part In any foreign country by convict labor or/and forced labor or/and Indentured labor under penal sanctions shall not be entitled to entry at any of the ports of the United States, and the importation thereof is hereby prohibited...
Página 67 - Lord, you delivered to me two talents look, I have gained two more talents besides them. His lord said to him, "Well done good and faithful servant you have been faithful over a few things. I will make you ruler over many. Enter into the joy of your lord.
Página 163 - It is no fault in others that the Methodist Church sends more soldiers to the field, more nurses to the hospitals, and more prayers to heaven than any. God bless the Methodist Church! bless all the churches! and blessed be God, who in this our great trial giveth us the churches.