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Lome
Darwin
Hanna
Rome
America
Goulds
Rockefellers
Havemyers
Socialists and the plan to take over industry
The 1899 discussion argues that after centuries of competitive capitalism, a new stage could be reached where society owns production. It claims competition causes losses and layoffs, while a planned system with guaranteed profits for workers would improve efficiency. If experiments prove social control wins, big corporations should be absorbed by society to lower costs and boost productive gains.
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Prncite
Monster Corporation
N. Y
Ribune
Whited Sepulchers and the Survival of the Fittest
JO Medill writes that talk of survival of the fittest benevolent assimilation and the white man’s burden echoes through sermons editors and politicians. He argues true fitness lies in virtue justice temperance and humane governance, condemning imperial aims as metaphorical whitewash.
Uncle Sam's Growing Expenses and Per Capita Cost
Congressman David DeArmond argues that federal spending has risen far faster than population from 1860 to 1900. He cites data showing population growth outpaced by a widening gap in regular annual appropriations and warns expenditures should be decreasing per capita with progress in discovery and efficiency.
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Uncle Sam
David DeArmond
United States
Goo
Army
Navy
Wages and Wealth in Brockton Great Shoe Town
From 1890 census Brockton Massachusetts shows 21 120 inhabitants producing 21 160 161 in goods much of it footwear with 7 829 workers averaging 2065 each The piece argues workers receive little of the value created and predicts socialist reforms while noting the US stance on a Boer War hospital corps and neutrality concerns.
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Brockton
Yeas
Reasoin
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TEE
Jom Alexander
Pac Bn. de
NLR
P. A
Kies
Garner, Kansas
JO Medill
St. John and
Milton
Phillipine Islands
Jesus
Rgaw
Brockton, Mass
Transvaal
Blue Mound Searchlight
THE
Union Central
First State Bank
Gare ‘T
Kas
Andersen Co
Jpslio
Manns
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