Sacramento Evening Bee Quotes
Wall Street is the colossal and aggregate Benedict Arnold of the Union, and the syndicated Judas Iscariot of humanity.
Wall Street and the business community urged caution about initiating war with Spain and advised the administration not to be stampeded into war by the massive public sentiment to war against Spain. The reaction to Wall Street by most Americans was one of anger and absence of patriotism. This editorial was more eloquent than most but expressed the then popular negative view of Wall Street.
Sacramento Evening Bee, Editorial on the Spanish American War, March 11, 1898
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Despite this, he recommended that the average person should participate in some limited ways.
The Slavery issue was so contentious that many Northern Congressmen had just given up on the abolitionist cause or never agreed with it even though in many areas of the country the majority of their constituents supported abolition.
Referring to political columnist Drew Pearson:
Summarizing his conclusions of the Judiciary Committee investigations regarding Wall Street and the bankers' role in the Great Depression:
McCarthy was one of the most interesting political phenomena of politics in the 1950s. He was an alcoholic megalomaniac who made wild accusations about communists everywhere and that the Secretary of State and other politicians were communists. He claimed to have a list of thousands of communists in high positions of government. His accusations were so dramatic that most people assumed that there were facts behind them otherwise no rational man would say such things. But it turned out that not a single accusation was ever proven. When McCarthy was esposed, he was censured by the Senate and he lost most of his political credibility and shortly thereafter died as a result of his severe alcoholism.
One of the major reasons that President George W. Bush had given for invading Iraq was that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were found.
O, you anarchic scum, you cowardly murderers, you leeches upon honest labor, you midnight assassins!
Otis and his paper were virulently anti-labor. See {617172} .
