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They were far-sighted men, those pioneers who chose crimson for the Harvard color. To think that they could visualize the Freshman dormitories and know that red lead is the cheapest of all paints! COUNU CRAVV...
When I was in college seventy years ago, I was taught that labor is a commodity to be sold in the highest market and bought in the cheapest market; that the law of supply and demand would regulate the price of labor. In fact the laborers have united to boost prices of labor and the capitalists have united to keep the prices of labor down and the result is a disastrous labor...
...Here is another example of how transportation costs affect the industry and commerce of a country. Transportation of graiff from the interior is usually by means of flat-boats and barges. One would imagine that this would be one of the cheapest forms of transportation there is, since there would be no lack of fuel charges, and the labor can be hired for a few cents a day. Yet in 1917, when wheat was selling for about eight cents a bushel at the place of production, the transportation charges from there to the United States were so great that...
...system of private ownership and operation of the railroads has built up the roads of this country to the most highly developed, the most accommodating, and the cheapest in rates, of any country in the world; and so no radical change from such an adequate system is called...
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