Economic History of the United States, Volume 4

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Macmillan, 1928 - 301 halaman

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Halaman 208 - Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line.
Halaman 73 - Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development.
Halaman 215 - Mr. Carlisle said in 1878 that this was a struggle between " the idle holders of idle capital " and " the struggling masses, who produce the wealth and pay the taxes of the country," and, my friends, the question we are to decide is: Upon which side will the Democratic party fight; upon the side of "the idle holders of idle capital " or upon the side of
Halaman 189 - We mean no conflict with legitimate enterprise, no antagonism to necessary capital, but men, in their haste and greed, blinded by self interests, overlook the interests of others, and sometimes violate the rights of those they deem helpless.
Halaman 189 - We mean to uphold the dignity of labor, to affirm the nobility of all who earn their bread by the sweat of their brows.
Halaman 192 - We have no ultimate ends. We are going on from day to day. We are fighting only for immediate objects — objects that can be realized in a few years.
Halaman 139 - The banks lent out their notes to speculators. They were paid to the receivers and immediately returned to the banks, to be lent out again and again, being mere instruments to transfer to speculators the most valuable public land and pay the Government by a credit on the books of the banks.
Halaman 214 - Notwithstanding all this, never in our history have the banks, land-grant railroads, and other monopolies, been more insolent in their demands for further privileges — still more class legislation. In this emergency the dominant parties are arrayed against the people, and are the abject tools of the corporate monopolies.
Halaman 191 - We have numberless trades' unions, trades' assemblies or councils, Knights of Labor, and various other local, national, and international labor unions, all engaged in the noble task of elevating and improving the condition of the working classes But great as has been the work done by these bodies, there is vastly more that can be done by a combination of all these organizations in a federation of trades
Halaman 86 - The indifferent state of that among us does not proceed from a want of knowledge merely; it is from our having such quantities of land to waste as we please. In Europe the object is to make the most of their land, labor being abundant ; here it is to make the most of our labor, land being abundant.

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