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. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... "drawing millions of our people from the soil, to be fed in "manufactories. Return those people to the soil, and make "them producers instead of consumers, --and you make us a "nation of paupers I have no desire to see any competition "with the pauper labor of Europe; and hence, I have always "advocated the ...
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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. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... "drawing millions of our people from the soil, to be fed in "manufactories. Return those people to the soil, and make "them producers instead of consumers, --and you make us a "nation of paupers I have no desire to see any competition "with the pauper labor of Europe; and hence, I have always "advocated the very next thing to a prohibitory tariff." And now, one word in regard to my reason for addressing this letter to you. It is, most certainly, not because I believe you are in sympathy with what will be denounced as my heresies. I have not the slightest idea of what are your present views in regard to the great financial question which now occupies, as it should, so much public attention. But you were with me in the Courier and Enquirer for twenty-five years. The boyclerk, passed successively, and with honor, through all the grades, to become principal bookkeeper, cashier, and, finally, an associate and chief-counsellor in the editorial room. And you, better than any living man, know how thoroughly I have studied our monetary system; and you know, too, that in all our great monetary crises, my custom was, to bid our commercial and financial editor to stand aside and leave the financial question entirely to me. You, therefore, can appreciate what value, if any, should attach to my practical and matured judgment upon the matters of which I have treated, without in any way being compromised by my opinions. And so in regard to my friend Col. Cannon. Although I forwarded to him, my letter to Congressman Mkllish, I am not acquainted with Col. Cannon's opinion of its contents. Of one thing be assured, --to secure a mixed circulation of paper and gold, at which we are all aiming, we must continue to be a creditor nation; and that cannot be accomplished, ...
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