James Baird WeaverState Historical Society of Iowa, 1919 - 494页 |
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第145页 - And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
第268页 - The Act to create boards of arbitration or commission for settling controversies and differences between railroad corporations and other common carriers engaged in interstate or territorial transportation of property or persons and their employees, approved October first, eighteen hundred and eightyeight, is hereby repealed.
第131页 - ... absolute dominion over industry and commerce. All money, whether metallic or paper, should be issued, and its volume controlled, by the government, and not by or through banking corporations; and, when so issued, should be a full legal tender for all debts, public and private.
第128页 - Any person who has served honorably and faithfully not less than one year in either the volunteer or regular service of the United States, in the late war for the suppression of the Rebellion, and who possesses the other qualifications required by law, may be admitted between the ages of seventeen and twenty-four years.
第348页 - We demand that the present law shall remain until such time as it can be replaced by what is known as a State and National control with all profits eliminated — which we believe to be the true method of dealing with the question.
第34页 - ... the hill until we reached the fortifications without firing a gun. On reaching the works we found the enemy fleeing before us, except a few, who were promptly put to the bayonet. I then gave the order to fire, which was responded to with fatal precision until the right wing, with Lieutenant-Colonel Baker, arrived, headed by General Smith, when we formed in line of battle, again under a galling fire, and charged on the encampment across the ravine in front, the enemy still retreating before us....
第147页 - The republic itself will have to struggle with them, and no man can now foresee the result of that struggle. The existence of such corporations seems to be necessary to the progress of our civilization; they are inseparable from it ; but they should not be clothed by legislation with exclusive privileges over the citizen. The people must put hooks into the jaws of these leviathans, and control them. " The accumulation of capital in the hands of these corporations of itself gives them immense power...
第131页 - ... of the United States which shall become redeemable in the year 1881, or prior thereto, being in amount $782,000,000, should not be refunded beyond the power of the Government to call in said obligations and pay them at any time, but should be paid as rapidly as possible, and according to contract. To enable the Government to meet these obligations, the mints of the United States should be operated to their full capacity in the coinage of standard silver dollars, and such other coinage as the...
第76页 - I believe now, that their action was the wisdom of instantly utilizing a way opened to them in a time of great need, and not the wisdom of having originated the movement. The convention in its highly wrought condition and excitement was hypnotized, as so many large popular bodies frequently are, and enough of General Weaver's delegates were swept off their feet and carried along by the storm to furnish the votes needed to make a majority for Kirkwood — and the great prize that General Weaver had...