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
| Edward Stanwood - Presidents - 1892 - 516 pages
...of principles: 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 legislature, the Congress, and touches even the ermine of the bench. The people are demoralized; most... | |
| Everit Brown, Albert Strauss - Political science - 1892 - 586 pages
...of principles. 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 ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot box, the Legislatures, the Congress, and touches even the ermine of the bench. The people are... | |
| Everit Brown, Albert Strauss - United States - 1892 - 568 pages
...conditions which surround us best justify our cooperation; we meet in the midst of a nation brougnt to the verge of moral, political, and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot box, the Legislatures, the Congress, and touches even the ermine of the bench. The people are... | |
| Almanacs, American - 1893 - 436 pages
...platform of the people's party convention recently held at Omaha, as follows: "We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political...material ruin; corruption dominates the ballot-box, the legislature, congress, and touches even the ermine of the bench; the people are demoralized; most of... | |
| Edward Fuller - Labor unions - 1893 - 436 pages
...had excoriated certain local firms, " has been brought by the men who call themselves your masters to the verge of moral, political, and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballotbox, runs riot in Congress, elects Presidents, and makes Judges. The gold-bugs of AVall Street have the... | |
| James Penny Boyd - Labor - 1894 - 536 pages
...repeated Democratic assertion, in another part of its platform, which reads : — " We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot box, the legislatures, the Congress, and touches even the ermine of 36a REVOLUTION OF i8gi.... | |
| Christian sociology - 1895 - 612 pages
...a platform from which the following is just now a significant extract : — " We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political,...the ermine of the bench. The people are demoralized. The newspapers are largely subsidized or muzzled, public opinion silenced, business prostrated, our... | |
| George Edward Plumbe, James Langland, Claude Othello Pike - Almanacs, American - 1895 - 486 pages
...declared that the nation had "been brought to the verge of moral, political and material ruin," and that "corruption dominates the ballot-box, the legislatures,...congress, and touches even the ermine of the bench, "the declaration was met with shouts of derision and our parly was denounced as "calamity howlers." But... | |
| William Ralston Balch - Bookbinding - 1895 - 836 pages
...: Preamble — 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, Legislatures, Congress. The people are demoralized; most of the States have been compelled to isolate... | |
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