The conditions which surround us best justify our co-operation: we meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political, and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballotbox, the legislatures, the Congress, and touches even the ermine... The Tribune Almanac and Political Register - Page 48edited by - 1894Full view - About this book
| James Albert Woodburn - Political parties - 1924 - 578 pages
...country as follows : "The conditions which surround us best justify our cooperation. We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political,...material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot-box, the legis- p .. latures, Congress, and even touches the ermine platform of the Bench. The people are demoralized.... | |
| Edgar Eugene Robinson - Political parties - 1924 - 416 pages
...their own words, "The conditions which surround us best justify our cooperation; we meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material rum. . . . We have witnessed for more than a quarter of a century the struggles of the two great political... | |
| Robert Granville Caldwell - United States - 1927 - 606 pages
...against existing political and social conditions: "Corruption dominates the ballot box, the legislature, the Congress, and touches even the ermine of the bench. The people are demoralized. . . . The newspapers are largely subsidized or muzzled; public opinion silenced; business prostrated;... | |
| Ralph Volney Harlow - United States - 1925 - 910 pages
...verge of moral, political, and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot-box, the legislature, the Congress, and touches even the ermine of the bench. The people are demoralized; . . . The newspapers are largely subsidized or muzzled; public opinion silenced; business prostrated;... | |
| American literature - 1926 - 796 pages
...around 1876. A platform was issued by the People's party in 1892 at Omaha which painted a dismal picture of "a nation brought to the verge of moral, political, and material ruin." To meet the "vast conspiracy against mankind " which the gold standard men were charged with organizing,... | |
| Robert Harry Inglis Palgrave, Henry Higgs - Economics - 1926 - 886 pages
...platform of 1892. The address introducing it is full of overstatement. The nation is described as being "brought to the verge of moral, political, and material ruin." Corruption dominates, the people are demoralised, mortgages cover their homes, labour is impoverished, the land concentrated... | |
| William Bennett Bizzell - Agricultural societies - 1926 - 300 pages
...millionaires." In another connection in the platform, the statement is made that "we meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political, and material ruin." The charge is made that corruption is widespread, the newspapers are subsidized, "our homes covered... | |
| David Saville Muzzey - United States - 1927 - 910 pages
...took it literally long for the superior civilization of the Turk. "We meet, " it said, "in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political,...material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot-box, the legislature, the Congress, and touches even the ermine of the bench. The people are demoralized; most... | |
| William Elsey Connelley - Kansas - 1928 - 682 pages
...the people or the people will own the railroads." The wrongs of the people were stated as follows: Corruption dominates the ballot-box, the legislatures,...Congress, and touches even the ermine of the bench. The newspapers are largely subsidized or muzzled, public opinion silenced, business prostrated, our homes... | |
| Scott G. McNall - History - 1988 - 382 pages
...of moral, political, and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot-box, the legislatures, and Congress, and touches even the ermine of the bench. The people are largely demoralized. . . . The newspapers are largely subsidized or muzzled; public opinion is silenced;... | |
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