 | 1907 - 848 sider
...source of danger to the nation. The conscience of the people has been shocked by the recent exposures of how great fortunes are made; and a serious effort...success. in any save a clean and straightforward manner. The President has been charged by the ultra-conservatives with stirring up discontent against wealth... | |
 | 1906 - 1228 sider
...country, the worst citizens, those who should excite in our minds the most contemptuous abhorrence, are the men who have achieved great wealth, or any...success, in any save a clean and straightforward manner. — Extract from an address bv President Roosevelt. The Barrett Hardware Co., Jpliet, 111., issued... | |
 | Adam Dixon Warner - 1908 - 296 sider
...country, the worst citizens, those who should excite in our minds the most contemptuous abhorrence, are the men who have achieved great wealth, or any...success, in any save a clean and straightforward manner." Leo Lettfall wired congratulations, and said: "I HOPE THAT GOVERNMENT WILL BE BROUGHT BACK TO THE PEOPLE."... | |
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... by corrupt means. In attacking ' predatory wealth ' he said in October 1905, ' The man of great means who achieves an immense fortune by crooked means does a wrong to the body-politic and becomes a source of danger to the nation. The conscience of... 