The Abridgment ... Containing the Annual Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress ... with Reports of Departments and Selections from Accompanying Papers |
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... past , the entire public debt could be paid in ten years . But it is not desirable that the people should be taxed to pay it in that time . Year by year the ability to pay increases in a rapid ratio . But the burden of interest ought to ...
... past , the entire public debt could be paid in ten years . But it is not desirable that the people should be taxed to pay it in that time . Year by year the ability to pay increases in a rapid ratio . But the burden of interest ought to ...
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... past , but to lay the foundation of a broad principle of public law , which will prevent future differences and tend to firm and continued peace and friendship . This is now the only grave question which the United State has with any ...
... past , but to lay the foundation of a broad principle of public law , which will prevent future differences and tend to firm and continued peace and friendship . This is now the only grave question which the United State has with any ...
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... past , however , cannot be undone , and the question must be met as we now find it . I have attempted a new policy toward these wards of the nation , ( they cannot be regarded in any other light than as wards , ) with fair results so ...
... past , however , cannot be undone , and the question must be met as we now find it . I have attempted a new policy toward these wards of the nation , ( they cannot be regarded in any other light than as wards , ) with fair results so ...
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... past year the following dividends have been paid : To the creditors of The First National Bank of Medina , New York , 383 per cent . To the creditors of The Farmers and Citizens ' National Bank of Brook- lyn , New York , additional ...
... past year the following dividends have been paid : To the creditors of The First National Bank of Medina , New York , 383 per cent . To the creditors of The Farmers and Citizens ' National Bank of Brook- lyn , New York , additional ...
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... past five years . They are very embarrassing , inasmuch as , whatever course the department selects to pursue , it is , after all , only a choice of evils , and acts for which the law furnishes little or no warrant , necessity enforces ...
... past five years . They are very embarrassing , inasmuch as , whatever course the department selects to pursue , it is , after all , only a choice of evils , and acts for which the law furnishes little or no warrant , necessity enforces ...
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