Decay of Integrity, Mortmain and Monopoly, Land-Trust and Restitution, Progress and Poverty, a Time for Reform

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Excerpt from Decay of Integrity, Mortmain and Monopoly, Land-Trust and Restitution, Progress and Poverty, a Time for Reform: Speech of Hon. Samuel S. Cox, in Tammany Hall, July 4, 1884Mr. Chairman: Joining with you in this patriotic celebration, I would like to pursue the beaten path. I would like to follow time honored precedent, and dwell on the heroic achievements of the fathers, review the proud progress of their sons, and paint with the roseate hue ~0f prophetic hepe a glorious promise for our posterity. But duty and love of country impel me to perform a less pleasing task.Our past has, indeed, been of glorious record. Yet, above the not distant horizon of the future I see dark clouds arising, charged with elements of wrath and destruction.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.