Life of Garret Augustus Hobart: Twenty-fourth Vice-president of the United States

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G. P. Putnam's sons, 1910 - 300 頁

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第 288 頁 - Government by duties upon imports, sound policy requires such an adjustment of these imposts as to encourage the development of the industrial interests of the whole country ; and we commend that policy of national exchanges which secures to the workingmen liberal wages, to agriculture remunerative prices, to mechanics and manufacturers an adequate reward for their skill, labor, and enterprise, and to the nation commercial prosperity and independence.
第 78 頁 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee : for whither thou goest, I will go ; and where thou lodgest I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God: " Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
第 134 頁 - I enter upon the duties of the office to which I have been chosen with the hope that the beginning of our career as a confederacy may not be obstructed by hostile opposition to our enjoyment of the separate existence and independence which we have asserted, and which, with the blessing of Providence, we intend to maintain.
第 256 頁 - Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! Who hath not learned, in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, That Life is ever lord of Death, And Love can never lose its own!
第 143 頁 - That by the ratification of the treaty of peace with Spain it is not intended to incorporate the inhabitants of the Philippine' Islands into citizenship of the United States, nor is it intended to permanently annex said islands as an integral part of the territory of the United States ; but it is the intention of the United States to establish on said islands a government suitable to the wants and conditions of the inhabitants of said islands...
第 65 頁 - We are unalterably opposed to every measure calculated to debase our currency or impair the credit of our country. We are, therefore, opposed to the free coinage of silver, except by international agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote, and until such agreement can be obtained the existing gold standard must be preserved.
第 217 頁 - In witness whereof I have set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
第 288 頁 - Democratic tariff as sectional, injurious to the public credit, and destructive to business enterprise. We demand such an equitable tariff on foreign imports which come into competition with American products as will not only furnish adequate revenue for the necessary expenses of the Government, but will protect American labor from degradation to the wage level of other lauds. We are not pledged to any particular schedules.. The question of rates is a practical question, to be governed by the conditions...
第 278 頁 - In this speech he advocated the free coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one...
第 91 頁 - The mother may forget the child " That smiles sae sweetly on her knee ; '•• But I'll remember thee, Glencairn, " And a' that thou hast done for me 1" LINES SENT TO SIR JOHN WHITEFOORD, OF WHITEFOORB.

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