| George Frisbie Hoar - 1903 - 466 pages
...debt in irredeemable paper, General Grant silenced him with the ringing sentence in his inaugural, ' Let it be understood that no repudiator of one farthing...our public debt will be trusted in public place,' because he knew that he was trying to tempt this people to escape from a burden by a mean and base... | |
| George Frisbie Hoar - 1903 - 458 pages
...debt in irredeemable paper, General Grant silenced him with the ringing sentence in his inaugural, 'Let it be understood that no repudiator of one farthing of our public debt will b« trusted in public place,' because he knew that he was trying to tempt this people to escape from... | |
| Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 456 pages
...the national honor, every dollar of government indebtedness should be paid in gold, unless otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract. Let it be understood...with bonds bearing less interest than we now pay." This significant declaration produced a deep sensation, Both Houses of Congress were Republican. Immediately... | |
| United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - 1907 - 680 pages
...the national honor, every dollar of Government indebtedness should be paid in gold, unless otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract. Let it be understood...with bonds bearing less interest than we now pay. To this should be added a faithful collection of the revenue, a strict accountability to the Treasury... | |
| Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 1908 - 654 pages
...the national honor every dollar of Government indebtedness should be paid in gold unless otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract. Let it be understood...a credit which ought to be the best in the world." You who have looked upon Grant merely as a man of the camp and the field, what think you of these words... | |
| Percy Harold Epler - 1909 - 376 pages
...repudiation. The opposition led by Hoar and others killed the measure, and President Grant declared, "Let it be understood that no repudiator of one farthing...our public debt will be trusted in public place." whole course of proceedings under General Butler in this Commonwealth seems to have been designed and... | |
| Alonzo Barton Hepburn - 1915 - 582 pages
...the national honor every dollar of government indebtedness should be paid in gold, unless otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract. Let it be understood...with bonds bearing less interest than we now pay." George S. Boutwell succeeded McCulloch as Secretary of the Treasury in March. Congress was called in... | |
| Alonzo Barton Hepburn - 1915 - 570 pages
...the national honor every dollar of government indebtedness should be paid in gold, unless otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract. Let it be understood...with bonds bearing less interest than we now pay." George S. Boutwell succeeded McCulloch as Secretary of the Treasury in March. Congress was called in... | |
| Alonzo Barton Hepburn - 1915 - 582 pages
...gold, unless otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract. Let it be understood that no rcpudiator of one farthing of our public debt will be trusted...with bonds bearing less interest than we now pay." George S. Boutwell succeeded McCulloch as Secretary of the Treasury in March. Congress was called in... | |
| Louis Arthur Coolidge - 1917 - 642 pages
...the national honor every dollar of government indebtedness should be paid in gold, unless otherwise expressly stipulated in the contract. Let it be understood...with bonds bearing less interest than we now pay. To this should be added a faithful collection of the revenue, a strict accountability to the treasury... | |
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