The dealings of God, man, and the devil : as exemplified in the life, experience, and travels of Lorenzo Dow, in a period of over half a century : together with his polemic and miscellaneous writings, complete : to which is added The vicissitudes of life, by Peggy Dow . CHAPTER XXI THIRD YEAR IN ROME — CLOSE OF DIPLOMATIC SERVICE I ARRIVED in New York at the very end of June, went at onceto Hopedale, and I find by my letterbook that July 1st I waswriting business letters. I found business in Hopedale, as else-where, driving, as according to my protectionist theories itought to be, owing to the
The dealings of God, man, and the devil : as exemplified in the life, experience, and travels of Lorenzo Dow, in a period of over half a century : together with his polemic and miscellaneous writings, complete : to which is added The vicissitudes of life, by Peggy Dow . CHAPTER XXI THIRD YEAR IN ROME — CLOSE OF DIPLOMATIC SERVICE I ARRIVED in New York at the very end of June, went at onceto Hopedale, and I find by my letterbook that July 1st I waswriting business letters. I found business in Hopedale, as else-where, driving, as according to my protectionist theories itought to be, owing to the stimulus given by the Dingley ,500 men were employed where 1,200 had been our maximumbefore, and we could not begin to fill our orders. We increasedto 1,800, working at a disadvantage during the summer, but itbecame evident that we must make radical enlargements, at acost, directly and indirectly, of some millions of dollars, or leaveothers to do the work that would naturally come to us. I ob-tained forty days extra leave of absence and the question wascarefully studied, with the result that we made plans for morethan doubling our plant and commenced on the preliminarywork. I agreed to this with reluctance, as it disarrangedmy financial plans, making it
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