The Light of Reason: Showing the First Step the Nation Should Take Toward a Social Order Based on Justice

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C. H. Kerr, 1899 - 188 pages
 

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Page 159 - 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 endeavour 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.
Page 166 - Heine, once eloquently stated the position that the author finds himself in with respect to the concurring opinion — "we do not take possession of our ideas, but are possessed by them. They master us and force us into the arena, where, like gladiators, we must fight for them.
Page 159 - It has been a trying hour indeed for the Republic. But 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...
Page 32 - Let the parchments be ever so many, or possession ever so long, natural justice can recognize no right in one man to the possession and enjoyment of .land that is not equally the right of all his fellows.
Page 33 - Maoris what the latter considered a complete title to land, because, although a whole tribe might have consented to a sale, they would still claim with every new child born among them an additional payment, on the ground that they had only parted with their own rights, and could not sell those of the unborn.
Page 102 - Any other well founded credit is as much an equivalent as gold and silver. Paper money, well founded, has great advantages over gold and silver ; being light and convenient for handling large sums ; and not likely to have its...
Page 92 - My agency in promoting the passage of the National Bank Act was the greatest financial mistake of my life. It has built up a monopoly which affects every interest in the country. It should be repealed; but before that can be accomplished, the people will be arrayed on one side and the banks on the other, in a contest such as we have never seen before in this country.
Page 77 - The States can no longer declare what shall be money, or regulate its value. Whatever power there is over the currency is vested in Congress. If the power to declare what is money is not in Congress, it is annihilated.
Page 159 - American youth has been freely offered upon our country's altar that the nation might live. It has been indeed a trying hour for the republic; but I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. "As...
Page 102 - On the whole no method has hitherto been framed to establish a medium of trade in lieu of money, equal in all its advantages to bills of credit, founded on sufficient taxes for discharging them, or on land security of double the value for repaying it at the end of the term, and in the mean time made a general legal tender.

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