. Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries . expenditure of the public
. Industrial history of the United States, from the earliest settlements to the present time: being a complete survey of American industries, embracing agriculture and horticulture; including the cultivation of cotton, tobacco, wheat; the raising of horses, neat-cattle, etc.; all the important manufactures, shipping and fisheries, railroads, mines and mining, and oil; also a history of the coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; banks, insurance, and commerce; trade-unions, strikes, and eight-hour movement; together with a description of Canadian industries . expenditure of the public of but little taxable propertythemselves, it was of immense impor-tance to them to get hold of the thomas r. purse, and be able to emptyand replenish it according to their own will and pleasure. As they were successful in an eminent degree in their designs, the historyof their management is but little more than a repetition of the man- Doings ofagement of the Tweed ring on a smaller though not less frightful Molhes-scale. Large sums were assessed to repair roads which needed only a smalloutlay for this purpose ; and even the school-funds were perverted, though it isbelieved the misapplication was not as extensive. They almost succeeded, inSchuylkill County, in electing as associate judge a notorious Molly who hassince been convicted of crime. Both of the great political parties bid fortheir support, and the rewards demanded and received were neither few norsmall. Rumors of a vote to be given on account of a pardon to be extended. 724 INDUSTRIAL HISTORY
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