Word: truce
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Taking as his text James Russell Lowell's words, "My Life Shall be a Challenge not a Truce," he pointed out in a striking and forcible manner the vast good, men and especially college men can do by the example of steadfast and honorable living. He said it was principally for this purpose that the St. Andrews Brotherhood had been formed, and to this it has owed its great success in a large measure...
...this act showed no conception of the relation of railroad practices. They forbade reductions and then proceeded to forbid also the pooling system, which was the only thing that had shown itself capable of putting a stop to those reductions. They left the cause, and forbade the effect. The truce between railroads was broken, and they were forced again into secret war. The law that declared that all firms shall be treated alike really intensified the inequality. Since reductions are illegal, they must be secret, and thus are sown the seeds of great monopolies much more dangerous than the railroads...