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...creatures, they should not,--like sheep,--move under the simple impulse of the mass. Man has the ability to think for himself, to weigh reasons, to forecast in some degree the future, and to reflect upon the consequences of his acts. In times like these it is of vital import that his responsibility for his individual opinions should be relentlessly asserted...
American merchants and bankers have been making surprising progress in the expansion of their activities in Colombia. Before the war we were supplying 27 per cent of the total imports of that country, and but little effective headway was being made toward improvement, primarily because of the entire absence of American branch banks and of thoroughly American mercantile agencies. Today our commercial interests in Colombia are being aggressively developed through fifteen branch banks, an American Chamber of Commerce, and at least twenty large and well planned distributing organizations. This explains in large measure the growth in our share of Colombia...
...fact that they have at last realized that as individuals they can do nothing against organized business. Their grievance, said Senator Ladd, in perfectly legitimate. It is predicted that within a few years this country. With all its land and all its gigantic market system, will have to import food on a large scale. The reason why this will happen is the existence of the middlemen. The whole market system huge but too complex, is ran and for the benefit of this unproductive class, which battens on producer and consumer alike. A farmer gets $1.50 for the wool that goes...
...have an admiration for her achievements. She has applied the n. w. doctrine of poetry in a way that has not destroyed the poetry of her meters. At times wonderful lines flash out of the tides of her poetry; and many of her poems have a deep and human import and have a creative and fusing spirit of a fine poetic...
...They must realize that we need a proper revision of the tariff, and must agree, whether they are free traders or projectionists, that import duties ought to upply a proper proportion of the revenue of the United States, which they do not do now. They have read, or heard, of the extravagance in government, which must be stopped, and which a Republican administration will stop...