The recent attempt to secure a charter from the State of North Dakota for a lottery company, the pending effort to obtain from the... State of Louisiana a renewal of the charter of the Louisiana State Lottery, and the establishment of one or more lottery companies at Mexican towns near our border, have served the good purpose of calling public attention to an evil of vast proportions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What I am anxious to do is to get the best bill possible with the least amount of friction.... I wish to avoid [splitting our part...y]. I shall do all in my power to retain the corporation tax as it is now and also force a reduction of the [tariff] schedules. It is only when all other efforts fail that I'll resort to headlines and force the people into this fight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Ask the perfumers, ask the blacking-makers, ask the hatters, ask the old lottery-office keepers--ask any man among 'em what my po...etry has done for him, and mark my words, he blesses the name of Slum. If he's an honest man, he raises his eyes to heaven, and blesses the name of Slum--mark that!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and ke...ep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don't know, you are now selling yourselve...s to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God's curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wifes and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever kno...w what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
New York is one of the capitals of the world and Los Angeles is a constellation of plastic, San Francisco is a lady, Boston has be...come Urban Renewal, Philadelphia and Baltimore and Washington blink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalopolis, and New Orleans is unremarkable past the French Quarter. Detroit is a one-trade town, Pittsburgh has lost its golden triangle, St Louis has become the golden arch of the corporation, and nights in Kansas City close early. The oil depletion allowance makes Houston and Dallas naught but checkerboards for this sort of game. But Chicago is a great American city. Perhaps it is the last of the great American cities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The manufacturing corporation, except in comparatively few instances, no longer represents a protecting care, a parental influence..., over its operatives. It is too often a soulless organization; and its members forget that they are morally responsible for the souls and bodies, as well as for the wages, of those whose labor is the source of their wealth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies of liberty.... Let our rejoicing rise high as the listening skies; Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »