The Railroads! the Stock-Yards! the Eveners!: Expose of the Great Railroad Ring That Robs the Laborer of the East and the Producer of the West of $5,000,000 a Year, Volume 2
The Railroads! the Stock-Yards! the Eveners!: Expose of the Great Railroad Ring That Robs the Laborer of the East and the Producer of the West of $5,000,000 a Year, Volume 2
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...proceeds come from the industrial classes. Such a state of things cannot long exist, and should not. Labor should have the profits on labor. The men who cut off coupons like Vanderbilt are the drones of society. In old times without the aid of improved machinery, sufficient was produced to satisfy all, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...proceeds come from the industrial classes. Such a state of things cannot long exist, and should not. Labor should have the profits on labor. The men who cut off coupons like Vanderbilt are the drones of society. In old times without the aid of improved machinery, sufficient was produced to satisfy all, and now the poor man cannot get the commonest necessaries of life; the rich receive the whole benefit. I think every member of this Club will agree with me that none but a demagogue could have uttered such sentiments, and no thoughtful citizen would approve them. Once more, as it seems to me with this dangerous tendency of the times we cannot be too thoughtful of the language we employ in discussing such topics, lest our real sentiments shall be misinterpreted. As a near illustration of this, a conspicuous member of Our Club, the Greenback candidate for Congress in this District, at a recent meeting of his political followers which he addressed, is said to have made some use of the fact that the building of the railroad across the Isthmus of Panama was attended with a fearful loss of life among the laborers. As I did not hear the address 1 am unable to say precisely in what connection he used the above narrative of fact as an illustration. For us who know him it is hardly necessary to say that he would not be likely to fasten the responsibility for the malarial influences and peculiar climate of Panama upon the railroad corporation extending its line across that Isthmus, and so benefiting an entire continent. And yet, the newspapers of the next day, professing to quote from that speech, referred to the Panama figure without naming it, and made the speaker to say in substance, that there was something wrong in legislation, ...
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