Congressional Edition Volume . 6088 (Paperback)


This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...and per diem allowance to sums so small as either to throw a burden upon men of ordinary circumstances too great to be borne, or to throw the offices into the hands of wealth: Therefore, "Resolved, That the Democracy of Ohio are able to pay their public servants a reasonable compensation." To Robert J. Walker, Secretary Treasury, United States of America. The undersigned, a committee appointed by the late Democratic convention of this county to correspond with the Secretary of the Treasury concerning the effect of the existing tariff on the agricultural and other interests of the West, submit the following considerations in performance of the duty assigned them: The western population is engaged in farming in a far geraler proportion than any other section of the Union, although that is the principal employment of the American people. Hence the West present?, a a section, more prominently than any other, the characteristics of the class numerically predominant in the whole country. The unusual preponderance of agriculture in the West proceeds not so much from its extent and fertility as from its recent settlement; the superior individual enterprise and independence of farmers having given them the first and almost exclusive possession of this great region. These traits of rural character, in their immediate and remote consequences, identify the opinions of the farmer with the principles of our free Government as completely as are his interests with those of the community. The West, therefore, in addition to its common interests with the rest of the Union in the political and fiscal action of the Federal Government, has a local, sectional, and class interest in restraining that part of our system within its proper constitutional limits. The West, f...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...and per diem allowance to sums so small as either to throw a burden upon men of ordinary circumstances too great to be borne, or to throw the offices into the hands of wealth: Therefore, "Resolved, That the Democracy of Ohio are able to pay their public servants a reasonable compensation." To Robert J. Walker, Secretary Treasury, United States of America. The undersigned, a committee appointed by the late Democratic convention of this county to correspond with the Secretary of the Treasury concerning the effect of the existing tariff on the agricultural and other interests of the West, submit the following considerations in performance of the duty assigned them: The western population is engaged in farming in a far geraler proportion than any other section of the Union, although that is the principal employment of the American people. Hence the West present?, a a section, more prominently than any other, the characteristics of the class numerically predominant in the whole country. The unusual preponderance of agriculture in the West proceeds not so much from its extent and fertility as from its recent settlement; the superior individual enterprise and independence of farmers having given them the first and almost exclusive possession of this great region. These traits of rural character, in their immediate and remote consequences, identify the opinions of the farmer with the principles of our free Government as completely as are his interests with those of the community. The West, therefore, in addition to its common interests with the rest of the Union in the political and fiscal action of the Federal Government, has a local, sectional, and class interest in restraining that part of our system within its proper constitutional limits. The West, f...

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Rarebooksclub.com

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United States

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May 2012

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May 2012

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246 x 189 x 21mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

402

ISBN-13

978-1-235-92527-6

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9781235925276

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1-235-92527-7



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