Nelson W. Aldrich Quotes
a delusion and a sham ... an empty menace to the great interest, made to answer the clamor of the ignorant and the unreasoning.
The Interstate Commerce Act is. Aldrich was one of business's "watchdogs" in the Senate. As such, he was one of the major opponents to the act.
Nelson W. Aldrich, 1841-1915, U. S. Congressman & U.S. Senator (Republican, RI), Remark 1887
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus. The incessant concentration on things that are false exhibited by the kinds of people Horace described has been observed in the political scene of almost all eras. The preoccupation with witches was one of the most famous, and a very recent one was the large number of people who were attracted by the belief that President Barack Obama was a Muslim who was born abroad despite the fact that Obama had been a regular attendant at Christian Protestant Churches for his adult like and had never worshipped in a Mosque. The “birthers” focused on the falsehood that Obama was not born in America despite the facts that there were contemporaneous newspaper announcements of his birth in Hawaii and the State of Hawaii authenticated his Hawaiian birth certificate.
Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich was a prominent American politician and a leader of the Republican Party in the United States Senate, where he served from 1881 to 1911. By the 1890s, he was one of the "Big Four" key Republicans who largely controlled the major decisions of the Senate, along with Orville H. Platt, William B. Allison, and John Coit Spooner. Because of his impact on national politics and central position on the pivotal Senate Finance Committee, he was referred to by the press and public alike as the "general manager of the Nation", dominating tariff and monetary policy in the first decade of the 20th century.
