The Worcester Magazine: Devoted to Good Citizenship and Municipal Development, Volumen12

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Chamber of Commerce, 1909

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Página 5 - There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good, and embraces it, who knows what is bad, and avoids it, is learned and temperate.
Página 3 - Government of to send delegates to a conference to be held at The Hague, at such date as may be found convenient, there to meet and consult the like delegates of the other countries, with a view to considering a general plan for an inventory of the natural resources of the world and to devising a uniform scheme for the expression of the results of such inventory to the end that there may be a general understanding and appreciation of the world's supply of the material elements which underlie the...
Página 116 - Reciprocity is the natural outgrowth of our wonderful industrial development under the domestic policy now firmly established. What we produce beyond our domestic consumption must have a vent abroad. The excess must be relieved through a foreign outlet, and we should sell everywhere we can and buy wherever the buying will enlarge our sales and productions, and thereby make a greater demand for home labor.
Página 152 - Ten thousand thousand precious gifts My daily thanks employ ; Nor is the least a cheerful heart, That tastes those gifts with joy.
Página 3 - ... welfare of the people depends upon the action not only of one country, but of the neighboring country. This, of course, is especially true where our streams are concerned. You cannot cut down the forests on the headwaters of an international stream without having it hurt both nations. I am anxious to do all that in me lies to help you gentlemen in getting our several peoples to come together with the idea of working in harmony for the common good instead of working each to get something at the...
Página 150 - Ocean policy cannot be doubted. American statesmen and people may shrink from participation in the Eastern Question, but it inevitably will intrude upon them ; and it is bound up in the fate of China. This great Empire will be the storm center of the forthcoming diplomatic struggle, and the scene of any international conflicts which failure of peaceful adjustment will provoke. As the Monroe Doctrine invokes the United States to interfere should stronger nations aggress upon Central and South American...
Página 168 - If he is a benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where but one grew before, Kisel certainly is, while he produces smiles where rugged toil and want have stamped a scowl of discontent.
Página 20 - ... we agree that this scale of prices shall continue in force for another year. Later in the year a difficulty arose in another department, which was settled in a similar fashion. BOSTON & ALBANY RAILROAD — SPRINGFIELD. On the twenty-sixth day of April 45 boiler makers left the Springfield shops of the Boston & Albany division of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad, because of a refusal to reinstate 2 discharged men. For the same cause a strike of 10 boiler makers occurred that day in...
Página 2 - ... to prevent him from doing ill. Publicity can do no harm to the honest corporation. The only corporation that has cause to dread it is the corporation which shrinks from the light, and about the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive. The work of the Department of Commerce and Labor has been conditioned upon this theory, of securing fair treatment alike for labor and for capital. The consistent policy of the National Government, so far as it has the power, is to hold in check...
Página 150 - ... alternative; and this is found in America's Philippine policy. This policy marks an epoch in the history of the government of dependencies. It is based upon new conceptions — upon principles which alone meet the demands of these resistless laws of governmental progress which have just been traced. America aims neither at exploiting a dependent people, as most colonizing states have done in the past; nor at ruling them permanently, in their interest but against their wishes, as England believes...

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