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social, political and financial and very apparent troubles are attributed
as clearly to of the particularity of legislation or a subtreasury
account passed in the administration of General Jackson or a rate account
passed in the administration of the Mr. Taft or the demonetization of
you silver in the Hayes period,--that "it Incriminates some century", the
Crucifixion of I Work on the Gold Cross! Once for everybody, allows me to say, me
you contemplate this school of statesmen and the so defined "thinkers" with
feelings the reverse of respectful. In the simple language, I classify them
with those known in spoken professional as here here and charlatans. Not
always, not also in the majority of cases, ago what that it preceded bear
to what follows the relationship of cause and effect. A marked example
of this false attribution is allowed in the most recent political history
from the eternal recurrence of the affirmation that the American prosperity
it is the result of an American protective system. Still in the Protectionist
dispensation, this is become an article of the faith. To my mind, it is,
undeserving of respectful consideration also.
If me he/she wondered to the cause of that change, small short of
revolutionary, if indeed in some short respect of him that you/he/she is happened
in the condition of material of the American people, and accordingly in
all of his/her theories and ideals, among the last thirty years that I owe
attribute him to a completely different cause. The Mr. Lecky of the years ago, in
its book entitled "Liberty and the Democracy", it made the following affirmation,
in any original way, but, as he put him/it, while sufficiently striking: "The
produces some American mines [accident to the discoveries done from
Cristoforo Colombo] servant, in the known most extreme form never in Europe, the
I change that over all other ones it strikes more deeply and universally the
comfort of material of men: he/she renewed radically the value of the jewel
metals, and, in consequence, the price of all the articles, the effects of