Ideas for a Science of Good Government: In Addresses, Letters and Articles on a Strictly National Currency, Tariff and Civil ServiceTrow's Printing and bookbinding Company, 1883 - 400 páginas |
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... welfare of a nation as by securing for it a just and uniform system of money , weights , and measures . PETER COOPER . I learned from my friend , Silas M. Stilwell , who was the confidential adviser of Secretary Chase , at the time of ...
... welfare of a nation as by securing for it a just and uniform system of money , weights , and measures . PETER COOPER . I learned from my friend , Silas M. Stilwell , who was the confidential adviser of Secretary Chase , at the time of ...
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... welfare of the nation . " To do this , let us take it out of the power of States or Corporations to make , or unmake , the money of the country . It is the sole duty of the Government to coin money , as the Constitution requires . Let ...
... welfare of the nation . " To do this , let us take it out of the power of States or Corporations to make , or unmake , the money of the country . It is the sole duty of the Government to coin money , as the Constitution requires . Let ...
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... welfare of mankind , and the prosper- ity of my beloved country . If it were the last word I should utter with my dying breath , I should warn the people of this country against the insidious wiles of professed politi- cians , who are ...
... welfare of mankind , and the prosper- ity of my beloved country . If it were the last word I should utter with my dying breath , I should warn the people of this country against the insidious wiles of professed politi- cians , who are ...
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... welfare , and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity . " PRESIDENT GRANT , TO PRESIDENT ... welfare of these United States . " There is nothing , that will so effectually relieve their wants , " establish ...
... welfare , and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity . " PRESIDENT GRANT , TO PRESIDENT ... welfare of these United States . " There is nothing , that will so effectually relieve their wants , " establish ...
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... welfare of the nation , I remain , Yours with great respect , PETER COOPER . PETITION TO CONGRESS . Gentlemen : -The bill for the refunding of the $ 637 , - 000,000 of five and six per cent . bonds , falling due during the year 1881 ...
... welfare of the nation , I remain , Yours with great respect , PETER COOPER . PETITION TO CONGRESS . Gentlemen : -The bill for the refunding of the $ 637 , - 000,000 of five and six per cent . bonds , falling due during the year 1881 ...
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Términos y frases comunes
adopted allowed American amount Bank of England bankers bill Bonamy Price bonds capital cause cent circulating medium coin commerce compelled Congress Constitution contraction cost coun declared demand dollars duties and debts England ernment establish justice exchange exports fact farmers foreign forms free trade give gold and silver Government greenbacks imports increase industry interest-bearing issue Jefferson legal money legal tender legislation loans manufacturing means measure ment millions Morrill tariff National Banks national currency national debt paid panic paper currency paper money party passed people's money PETER COOPER political pound weight present President prosperity protection public debt received redeem rency Republican ruin says Secretary secure Senate Sir Archibald Alison specie basis specie payments tariff taxes Thomas Jefferson tion Treasury notes United United States notes volume wealth welfare whole
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Página 80 - Although among the enumerated powers of government we do not find the word " bank " or " incorporation," we find the great powers to lay and collect taxes, to borrow money, to regulate commerce, to declare and conduct a war, and to raise and support armies and navies. The sword and the purse, all the external relations, and no inconsiderable portion of the industry of the Nation, are intrusted to its government.
Página 226 - ... whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Página 290 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness, and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
Página 34 - A false balance is an abomination to the Lord: But a just weight is his delight.
Página 350 - Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind none has been more effectual than that which deludes them with paper money. This is the most effectual of inventions to fertilize the rich man's field by the sweat of the poor man's brow.
Página 361 - Under their old masters they had at least one resource: when the evil became insupportable, the people rose and pulled down the government. But the English government was not to be so shaken off. That government, oppressive as the most oppressive form of barbarian despotism, was strong with all the strength of civilisation.
Página 265 - Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor, if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
Página 59 - We demand the immediate and unconditional repeal of the specie resumption act of January 14, 1875, and the rescue of our industries from ruin and disaster resulting from its enforcement...
Página 327 - Except for cotton he has neither a foreign nor a home market. Does not this clearly prove, when there is no market either at home or abroad, that there is too much labor employed in agriculture ? and that the channels of labor should be multiplied?
Página 277 - ... bills of credit by the States, and of the making by them of anything except gold and silver coin a legal tender in payment of debts. However this may be, it is too clear to be reasonably disputed that Congress, under its constitutional powers to lay taxes, to regulate commerce, and to regulate the value of coin...