Imperial Washington, by R. F. Pettigrew...: The Story of American Public Life from 1870-1920C. H. Kerr, 1922 - 441 páginas |
Palavras e frases frequentes
56th Congress acres amendment American annexation appointed army asked attorneys bankers banks believe big business bill bonds Bryan campaign Cannon census cent charge Chauncey Depew Committee Company conference Congress Constitution convention corporations declared delegates Democratic dollars duty economic election empire exploit facts favor Federal gold Government Grover Cleveland House imperial Interstate Commerce Commission island issue Joe Cannon judge Kansas Pacific Railroads labor land lawyers League legislation Mark Hanna McKinley ment millions nation never Nicaragua opium Ordway organized Pacific passed PETTIGREW Philippines plunder plutocracy political population Porto Rico President produce profit protect question railroads representatives republic Republican party roads Roosevelt Russia secure sent slavery South Dakota speech sugar Sultan of Sulu Sulu Supreme Court tariff territory tion told treaty United States Senate usurpation vote Washington wealth Wilson York
Passagens conhecidas
Página 140 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Página 20 - The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the amendment. The amendment was agreed to.
Página 119 - ... wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless.
Página 171 - I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.
Página 332 - This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Página 139 - ... that, 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 14 - That the President of the United States may from time to time set apart and reserve in any State or Territory having public land bearing forests, in any part of the public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth, whether of commercial value or not, as public reservations; and the President shall by public proclamation declare the establishment of such reservations and the limits thereof.
Página 317 - I, , do solemnly swear, (or affirm,) in the presence of Almighty God, that I am a citizen of the State of...
Página 174 - An opinion is huddled up in conclave, perhaps by a majority of one, delivered as if unanimous, and with the silent acquiescence of lazy or timid associates, by a crafty chief judge, who sophisticates the law to his mind, by the turn of his own reasoning.
Página 119 - I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. "As a result of the war corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the republic is destroyed.