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...getting themselves or their children into what is euphemistically called good society. Did it ever occur to them that there is a select society of all the centuries to which they and theirs can be admitted for the asking, a society, too, which will not involve them in ruinous expense and still more ruinous waste of time and health and faculties? Du gleichst dem Geist den du begreifst, says the World Spirit to Faust, and this is true of the ascending no less than of the descending scale. Every book we read may be made a round in the ever...
...prohibition leads to-(a) Ruinous competition by causing-(1) Rate wars: Quar. Jour. Econ. III. 182-3,-(2) The construction of unnecessary parallel lines: Ibid.-(b) Consolidation and absence of competition...
...hostile to the public welfare.- [a] Socialistic, e. g. Sub Treasury Scheme and Government control of Railroads; Public Opinion VIII, 532, IX, 167, 168, 241, 408, 475, X, 172, 219, 220, 565, 611, 613; Nation L, 404; Spectator, V, p. 44; Jan. 10, '91, American XXI, 23.- [b] Ruinous to our financial system, e. g. Abolition of National Banks and Free Silver: Public Opinion, IX, 408, X, 171, 217, 218; American XIX, 447; Nation LII, 104, 229, 230.- [c] Chimerical, e. g. Prevention of dealing in futures and lowering rate of interest; Public Opinion, VIII...
...interests of American trusts to lower prices when possible. (a) where prices are at first increased it is due to a reaction from ruinous competition. Remarks of Hon. F. B. Thurber to the N. Y. Senate...
...Ruinous rate wars have not been as frequent as before the act was passed.- J. F. Hundson, as above; "Rate Wars and Pools," as above...