Doing Us Good and PlentyC. H. Kerr, 1914 - 172 páginas |
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... nation . Hence , back to the land ! Let everybody turn farmer ! Shoes , probably , would grow on trees , and trousers on bushes . Anyway , back to the land ! Well , it seems we have been going back to the land , and we have been ...
... nation . Hence , back to the land ! Let everybody turn farmer ! Shoes , probably , would grow on trees , and trousers on bushes . Anyway , back to the land ! Well , it seems we have been going back to the land , and we have been ...
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... nation's effort in these directions has been ri- diculous failure . The simple fact that in these twenty - five years the situation for the working class has not improved but only grown steadily worse , is in itself enough to condemn ...
... nation's effort in these directions has been ri- diculous failure . The simple fact that in these twenty - five years the situation for the working class has not improved but only grown steadily worse , is in itself enough to condemn ...
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... nation . But to come back to the failure of regulation , and to look at it merely from the point of view of the classes it was intended to benefit , take railroad regulation , for instance . We began that in 1886 , and for the last ...
... nation . But to come back to the failure of regulation , and to look at it merely from the point of view of the classes it was intended to benefit , take railroad regulation , for instance . We began that in 1886 , and for the last ...
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... nation . Two - thirds of the voters of the United States belong to the working class ; nine - tenths of the members of Congress belong exclusively to the parasite class . That is where the trouble comes in . If the working class does ...
... nation . Two - thirds of the voters of the United States belong to the working class ; nine - tenths of the members of Congress belong exclusively to the parasite class . That is where the trouble comes in . If the working class does ...
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... nation and even talking confidently of the reign of peace and the Constitution , elsewhere civil war may be raging , all law and all constituted authority may be abolished , battles may be fought and deeds of almost unparalleled ...
... nation and even talking confidently of the reign of peace and the Constitution , elsewhere civil war may be raging , all law and all constituted authority may be abolished , battles may be fought and deeds of almost unparalleled ...
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Página 165 - That the labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. Nothing contained in the antitrust laws shall be construed to forbid the existence and operation of labor, agricultural, or horticultural organizations, instituted for the purposes of mutual help, and not having capital stock or conducted for profits, or to forbid or restrain individual members of such organizations from lawfully carrying out the legitimate objects thereof; nor shall such organizations, or the members thereof,...
Página 113 - The transition we are witnessing is no equable transition of growth and normal alteration, no silent unconscious unfolding of one age into another, its natural heir and successor. Society is looking itself over, in our day, from top to bottom, is making fresh and critical analysis of its very elements, is questioning its oldest practices as freely as its newest, scrutinizing every arrangement and motive of its life, and stands ready to attempt nothing less than a radical reconstruction, which only...
Página 18 - The old proverb or adage, which states that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a public benefactor...
Página 110 - ... to yield their preference and purpose, perhaps their judgment also, in honorable surrender. What we are purposing to do, therefore, is, happily, not to hamper or interfere with business as enlightened business men prefer to do it, or in any sense to put it under the ban. The antagonism between business and government is over. We are now about to give expression to the best business judgment of America, to what we know to be the business conscience and honor of the land. The Government and business...
Página 112 - We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past. The life of America is not the life that it was twenty years ago; it is not the life that it was ten years ago. We have changed our economic conditions, absolutely, frcm top to bottom; and, with our economic society, the organization of our life.
Página 113 - We are in a temper to reconstruct economic society, as we were once in a temper to reconstruct political society, and political society may itself undergo a radical modification in the process. I doubt if any age was ever more conscious of its task or more unanimously desirous of radical and extended changes in its economic and political practice.
Página 124 - Massachusetts trolleys at prices exorbitantly in excess of their market value ; the unwarranted expenditure of large amounts in 'educating public opinion'; the disposition, without knowledge of the directors, of hundreds of thousands of dollars for influencing public sentiment; the habitual payment of unitemized vouchers without any clear specification of details; the confusing interrelation of the principal company and its subsidiaries and consequent...
Página 88 - State, or any person or persons who shall come into this State armed with deadly weapons of any kind for any such purpose, without a permit in writing from the Governor of this State, shall be guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one year nor more than five years : Provided, that nothing contained in this act shall be construed to interfere with the right of any person...
Página 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 iniquity of the Westchester acquisition; the double price paid for the Rhode Island trolleys; the recklessness in the purchase of Connecticut and Massachusetts trolleys at prices exorbitantly in excess of their market value; the unwarranted expenditure of large amounts in
Página 124 - ... funds to political organizations; the scattering of retainers to attorneys of five states, who rendered no itemized bills for services and who conducted no litigation to which the railroad was a party; extensive use of a paid lobby in matters as to which the directors claim to have no information; 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...