Author : James V. Coffey
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656376582
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (765 download)
Book Synopsis Shall the People Or the Corporations Rule?: The Paramount Issue (Classic Reprint) by : James V. Coffey
Download or read book Shall the People Or the Corporations Rule?: The Paramount Issue (Classic Reprint) written by James V. Coffey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shall the People or the Corporations Rule?: The Paramount Issue The experience of the country has impressed the lesson that competition may be robbed of its prerogative, while monopoly - the evil genius of trade - seizes hold of the people and plunders their pockets. The railroad era in this country has hardly dawned. We see nothing of enterprise in this department in com parison with what we shall see. And now, in the infancy of this great system, let the people look to it that they are not mastered or corrupted by its ambitious power. Already it has aspired to control the Legislature and the Courts, and even Congress has bowed to its mandates; while the dictation of a President of the United States is in no wise out of the range of its possibilities. Such apower having at its command such vast influences for controlling the action of men, and such extended abilities for personal purchase and legislative corruption, rises be fore our eyes this day as the overtowering danger of the times. By the simple process of fixing the rates of travel and transportation a whole State and people, out of whose sweat and toil these great lines were constructed, may be made hewers of wood and drawers of water for distant wealthy centers, while Courts and Legislatures may be so manipulated as to perpetuate the wrong. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.