The Texcoco-Huehuetoca Canal, Proposed as a Basis on which to Issue Treasury Money, and to Inaugurate a National System, to Multiply and to Diversify Home IndustriesH. C. Baird & Company, 1880 - 120 páginas |
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... civilization and its accompaniments becoming almost universal . The character of Mr. Charles M. DuPuy , who is at the head of the Commission , and of Mr. Owen , the Engineer - both civil en- gineers of experience — is a sufficient ...
... civilization and its accompaniments becoming almost universal . The character of Mr. Charles M. DuPuy , who is at the head of the Commission , and of Mr. Owen , the Engineer - both civil en- gineers of experience — is a sufficient ...
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... civilization commenced with the estab- lishment of the Bank of Venice , and kindred banks in Europe , and that modern periodic commercial convulsions were incident to the gold basis system of the Bank of England . The modern examples ...
... civilization commenced with the estab- lishment of the Bank of Venice , and kindred banks in Europe , and that modern periodic commercial convulsions were incident to the gold basis system of the Bank of England . The modern examples ...
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... civilization advance to higher planes the functions of government become greater and more varied , the State of necessity taking cognizance of affairs which it had previously regarded as not within its province . In Great Britain the ...
... civilization advance to higher planes the functions of government become greater and more varied , the State of necessity taking cognizance of affairs which it had previously regarded as not within its province . In Great Britain the ...
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... civilization , and is also in the just and natural order of things . He in- stances the State institutions for intercourse — the post , the telegraph , the railways and the highways and the municipal institutions for health ...
... civilization , and is also in the just and natural order of things . He in- stances the State institutions for intercourse — the post , the telegraph , the railways and the highways and the municipal institutions for health ...
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... civilization of this age is one which will be of the people , by the people and for the people ; and in order that it may be such , it must in every manner and way respond to and harmonize with man's demand for association with his ...
... civilization of this age is one which will be of the people , by the people and for the people ; and in order that it may be such , it must in every manner and way respond to and harmonize with man's demand for association with his ...
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The Texcoco-Huehuetoca Canal: Proposed as a Basis on Which to Issue Treasury ... Albert Kimsey Owen Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
The Texcoco-Huehuetoca Canal: Proposed As a Basis on Which to Issue Treasury ... Albert Kimsey Owen Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
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A. K. Owen basin bills capital carga cent centum Chalco circulation city of Mexico commercial commodities complete Congress Cortez cost Cruz currency debts Desague dollars drain Engineer England exchange expenses feet five foreign France gold and silver gold or silver greenbacks Guadalupe Henry Carey Huehuetoca hundred inaugurate industries interest issued Treasury money labor lake of Tezcuco Lake Texcoco Lake Xochimilco Lake Zumpango Lakes Chalco land Latin Union legal tender manufacture means of payment ment metals metres Mexican Drainage Commission Mexico City Miguel Hidalgo miles million money and bonds money of account mountains National Bank paid paper money Philadelphia plain plans PORFIRIO DIAZ present President Diaz proposed railroad receive redeem revenue salt says Secretary of Public secure Señor streets taxes Teran Texcoco-Huehuetoca canal thousand tion tons calcined soda trade United valley of Mexico Vera Cruz wealth Xaltocan Xochimilco Zumpango
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Página 100 - Tenochtitlan, as more commonly called by the natives ; which, with its picturesque assemblage of water, woodland, and cultivated plains, its shining cities and shadowy hills, was spread out like some gay and gorgeous panorama before them.
Página 88 - Some of the best English writers upon commerce set out with observing, that the wealth of a country consists, not in its gold and silver only, but in its lands, houses, and consumable goods of all different kinds. In the course of their reasonings, however, the lands, houses, and consumable goods seem to slip out of their memory, and the strain of their argument frequently supposes that all wealth consists in gold and silver, and that to multiply those metals is the great object of national industry...
Página 89 - Accordingly we find, that, in every kingdom, into which money begins to flow in greater abundance than formerly, everything takes a new face : labour and industry gain life ; the merchant becomes more enterprising, the manufacturer more diligent and skilful, and even the farmer follows his plough with greater alacrity and attention.
Página 100 - Stretching far away at their feet, were seen noble forests of oak, sycamore, and cedar, and beyond, yellow fields of maize and the towering maguey, intermingled with orchards and blooming gardens ; for flowers, in such demand for their religious festivals, were even more abundant in tiiis populous valley than in other parts of Anahuac.
Página 72 - ... one. If there is one measure better calculated than another to produce that state of things so much deprecated by all true republicans, by which the rich are daily adding to their hoards and the poor sinking deeper into penury, it is an exclusive metallic currency.
Página 27 - The sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the expenses of the port authority.
Página 74 - ... per annum. I speak on the information of citizens of that state, on whom I can rely. But whatever may be the amount that can be circulated, I hold it clear, that to that amount it would be as stable in value as gold and silver itself, provided the government be bound to receive it exclusively with those metals in all its dues, and that it be left perfectly optional with those who have claims on the government to receive it or not.
Página 94 - Mexico. 1,511,800 5,927 255 proves that this water contains no sulphate in dissolution. The most pure and limpid water is that of the lake of Xochimilco, the specific weight of which I found to be 1.0009, when that of water distilled at the temperature of 1 8° centigrade * was 1.000, and when water from the lake of Tezcuco was 1.0215.
Página 72 - T*he paper-money system, and its natural associates, monopoly and exclusive privileges, have already struck their roots deep in the soil ; and it will require all your efforts to check its further growth, and to eradicate the evil. The men who profit by the abuses, and desire to perpetuate them, will continue to besiege the halls of legislation in the general government as well as in the states, and will seek, by every artifice, to mislead and deceive the public servants. It is...
Página 88 - ... whereas it has long been known and declared that the poor have no right to the property of the rich, I wish it also to be known and declared that the rich have no right to the property of the poor.