Word: debtors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...standard, he denied that they are an evil at all. He then devoted the rest of his speech to a careful analysis showing that this, the fundamental claim of the bimetallists is without foundation. Fall in prices has resulted merely from an immense but healthy growth in production. The debtor has not suffered, because there has been a constant rise in wages and money incomes. What would be the gain of bimetallism? None. Production would merely become feverish and speculative, and wages would only fall under a period of rising prices...
...only since the enormous increase of production after 1880, due to increased facilities, that price of commodities has gone down; (Schurz Chic. Speech, p. 6; Taussig. Silver Sit., p. 105). B. The change in the gold value of commodities is not unfair to the debtor. (1) Though he pays debts with more commodities, yet the labor equivalent is the same; (Taussig. Silver Sit., p. 109). (2) His money income is at least no less; (Taussig Silver...
...Populist movement is an expression of genuine grievances.- (a) Workingmen have genuine grievances against employers.- (b) Consumers have genuine grievances against trusts and corporations: e.g., Standard Oil trust.- (c) Farmers have genuine grievances against the railroads.- (d) Debtor class must suffer by the demonetizations of silver.- (e) All these different classes of grievances the Populist Party represents: Amer. Mag. of Civics...
...Culture and War, The Comparative Morality of Nations, The Odium Philologicum, Professor Huxley's Lectures, Tyndall and the Theologians, Judges and Witnesses, Mr. Froude as a Lecturer, John Stuart Mill, Carlyle's Political Influence, The Morals and Manners of the Kitchen, The Evolution of the Summer Resort, "The Debtor Class," Panics, etc. The volume is dedicated to Charles Eliot Norton, "to whom the foundation of the Nation was largely...
...Endicott Peabody, principal of the Groton School, preached at Appleton Chapel last evening, taking his text from the first chapter of St. Paul's epistle to the Romans, verse 14: "I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians; both to the wise and to the unwise...