Author: Edgar Howard Farrar

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Published: 2015-07-03

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781330654385

Excerpt from The Legal Remedy for Plutocracy Address by Edgar Howard Farrar, A.M., of New Orleans, La., Before the Society of Alumni of the University of Virginia, on June 17th, 1902. Reprinted from the "University Bulletin." Mr. Chairman, Fellow Alumni of the University of Virginia, Ladies and Gentlemen: The generation of men to which I belong, who, full of hope and strength, left the precincts of this university thirty-one years ago, to enter upon the active duties of life, found themselves face to face with social and political questions that touched the foundations of the republic. Those of us of Southern birth and bringing up (and then, as now, those who were not such were a negligible quantity) had seen in the impressionable period of youth the tide of civil war pour over our land, leaving behind a track of pillaged cities, devastated farms and denuded homesteads. From out of this wreckage, with loving and self-denying hands, were garnered the almost tragic dollars that placed and kept us in the bosom of this our venerable and cherished mother. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.