Excerpt from America Strikes Back: A Record of Contrasts But acts respecting the making of goldware and silverware were so evaded that enactment of new laws was constantly found necessary. The nature of these laws shows that they did not deal with frauds upon the common people who, need less to say, were not purchasers of gold and silver plate. The aristocracy and the rich merchants had efficacious ways of obtaining action upon grievances; and while, as we shall see, merchants in every line of business were practicing ...
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Excerpt from America Strikes Back: A Record of Contrasts But acts respecting the making of goldware and silverware were so evaded that enactment of new laws was constantly found necessary. The nature of these laws shows that they did not deal with frauds upon the common people who, need less to say, were not purchasers of gold and silver plate. The aristocracy and the rich merchants had efficacious ways of obtaining action upon grievances; and while, as we shall see, merchants in every line of business were practicing fraud and profiting from fraud, they were quick to raise an outcry when ever they were defrauded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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