Word: trade
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Public Account System, without power machinery, is preferable because (a) it favors the reformation of the convict (1) by leaving him in exclusive charge of the prison officials, (Ill. Report, p. 88), and (2) by teaching him a trade (Ill. Report, p. 132). (b) it diminishes prison competition with free labor...
...times leads to trusts. They sprung up in all directions as a natural growth. The opposition comes from small tradesmen who have been undersold by the lowered prices, and from demagogues who wish to make political capital. Any attempt at suppression would be a blow at modern trade...
With the citizens of Mecca the case was different. The city had grown rich by trade, being situated on the caravan route to the highly civilized states of southern Arabia. At Mecca was situated the Caaba, the central temple of the Arabs. The pilgrims wished to find their tribal gods in the temple, and thus a polytheism became the religion of the city, although many of the citizens, who had studied the sacred books of the Jews, were inclinto monotheism. Any attack on the idols endangered the commercial prosperity of the city, as the pilgrims afforded the chief source...
...debt, the National Bank system, and the sinking fund. Mr. Stuart Wood follows with a new view of the theory of wages. The most interesting paper of the number is Mr. Power's article on Victoria and New South Wales, the one a protectionist and the other a free trade colony. The number is closed by editorial notes and some attractiv memoranda which are very good reading...
...political parties either in Cambridge or in Boston. It is a matter of individual judgment alone to which one he gives his adherence. They both claim the same high ideals. But Harvard College stands for something more than whether Grover Cleveland has maintained his party pledges or whether Free Trade was sent to the earth by a devil to a snare to England and the United States. It is true that Harvard has been always for the best for the country and it is equally true as Mr. Lodge stated, her shield bore these matters and not one of them...