This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...of the United States passed a law increasing the salary of its members from $5,000 to $7,000 a year, and that of the President of the United States from $25,000 to $50,000 a year. And to cap the climax of heartlessness and dishonesty, they made the law retroactive, so as to enable them to filch from the people this ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...of the United States passed a law increasing the salary of its members from $5,000 to $7,000 a year, and that of the President of the United States from $25,000 to $50,000 a year. And to cap the climax of heartlessness and dishonesty, they made the law retroactive, so as to enable them to filch from the people this extra amount of money as the price of their own duplicity. And President Grant signed the bill legalizing the theft at the same session of Congress that he vetoed the bill asking for an equalization of the bounties of the'soldiers who had served in the ranks under him during the war. History informs us that Nero set fire to Rome, and then sat in his parlor and played the fiddle as an accompaniment to the hissing of the flames and the shrieks of anguish and despair produced by the burning city. For this act he has been branded by the civilized world as an unfeeling monster. What shall be said of President Grant and the American Congress who could first legislate to ruin the business of the nation, bankrupt its people, and then, with the cry of suffering greeting their ears from all parts of the stricken country, legislate to further rob the sufferers and put the money in their own pockets? Language would fail to describe the measure of infamy embodied in this diabolical transaction. Not satisfied with the advantages already obtained, the bankers still feared the greenback, and while it had been used by the Secretary of the Treasury, in 1873, to save the banks from failure, they saw the possibility that its'circulation might be increased to save the people from the wreck to which they were determined to drive them. In order to prevent this they appealed to Congress for assistance, and that body, ever ready to respond to such reasonable (?) demands ...
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