Word: checking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Does socialism tend to abridge human liberty and to check spontaneity...
...Checks will be cashed on any Bank or Banking House in the U. S. and interest is allowed upon daily balances subject to check...
...Checks will be cashed on any Bank or Banking House in the U. S. and interest is allowed upon daily balances subject to check...
...individual can cope with these corporations, no single state can control interstate traffic. The most dangerous abuses of the present are unjust discriminations against products, localities, and individuals particularly secret rates. Railroad discriminations nursed into power the Standard Oil Company. The Inter-State Commerce Law aimed to check these-evils, but did not claim to obviate all difficulties, and it is commonly acknowledged that legislation is necessary to enforce this law, in order that certain abuses may be overcome, that embarrassments caused by recent technical decisions of the courts may be removed, and that the state and inter-state laws...
...public must be benefited by a check on the express companies, the offspring of the railway, which enjoy all privileges of common carriers, with none of their restrictions. Their present system is a burden. The enormous loss of life could also be brought to the minimum by legislation compelling the adoption of the automatic coupler, proper danger signals, and other new and necessary improvements. Two thirds of our railways are trying to secure this legislation. That the Inter-State Commerce Act is not adequate for many important questions is the declaration of the commerce commission. That further national legislation would...