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History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
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Before setting out to relate in detail the narrative of the amassing of the great individual fortunes from railroads, it is advisable to present a preliminary survey of the concatenating circumstances leading up to the time when these vast fortunes were rolled together. Without this explanation, this work would be deficient in clarity, and would leave unelucidated many important points, the absence of which might puzzle or vex the reader. Although industrial establishments, as exemplified by mills, factories and shops, much preceded the construction of railroads, yet the next great group of fortunes to develop after, and along with, those from land were the fortunes plucked from the control and manipulation of railroad systems. THE LAGGING FACTORY FORTUNES.
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Apart from the destructive character of this incessant warfare, dooming many of the combatants, other intervening factors had the tendency of holding back the factory owners' quick progress— obstacles and drawbacks copiously described in later and more appropriate parts of this work. MIGHT OF THE RAILROAD OWNERS. In contrast to the slow, almost creeping pace of the factory owners in the race for wealth, the railroad owners sprang at once into the lists of mighty wealth-possessers, armed with the most comprehensive and puissant powers and privileges, and vested with a sweep of properties beside which those of the petty industrial bosses were puny. Railroad owners, we say; the distinction is necessary between the builders of the railroads and the owners.
The German Myth: The Falsity of Germany's Social Progress Claims (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The German Myth: The Falsity of Germany's Social Progress Claims
Or, if they do believe, they consider that those atrocities are more than counterbalanced by the German Government's alleged enlightened and advanced social measures for its people.
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History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)
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Russell Sage was mellow with experience when Gould was still in his verdant youth; years before Gould began his predacious career, Sage had the reputation among the knowing of being an old hand at political and financial corruption. Was this reputation justified? And did Sage garner his first millions by illicit methods? Certain of his biographers glide nimbly over these questions, while others tell their ready-made advocates tale; how by his thrift and enterprise, his marvelous business astuteness, and his imposing array of other mercantile virtues and faculties he made his great fortune.1 It would denote a lack of fidelity to these accounts were the word sterling omitted in connection with virtues; in the case of our multimillionaires virtues must necessarily be sterling virtues. Were it not that the same stock phrases abound in all of these eulogies, they might provoke a gush of emotion, so touching are they, and often pathetic. But the moment the test of examination is applied they turn out to be sheer inventions. 1F or example: See America s Successful Men, Vo Li, containing a laudatory sketch of Sage.
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In this pioneering work, Gustavus Myers lays bare the corruption, swindling, land deals, and bribery that are at the basis of Canadian history. This is Canada's past seen through the eyes of a muckraker, and in it the heros of other histories appear in quite a different light.
This book was first published in 1914--in the United States. It has never before been published in Canada. Canadian historians have mostly ignored, suppressed, or mocked it. But history is not the preserve of apologists for big business and the political parties, and A History of Canadian Wealth is certain to be widely read and recognized at last as a classic.
A landmark revisionist history of Canada, A History of Canadian Wealth remains as lively and startling as it was when first published.
America Strikes Back: A Record of Contrasts (Classic Reprint)
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But acts respecting the making of goldware and silverware were so evaded that enactment of new laws was constantly found necessary. The nature of these laws shows that they did not deal with frauds upon the common people who, need less to say, were not purchasers of gold and silver plate. The aristocracy and the rich merchants had efficacious ways of obtaining action upon grievances; and while, as we shall see, merchants in every line of business were practicing fraud and profiting from fraud, they were quick to raise an outcry when ever they were defrauded.
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History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
(In writing this work my aim has been to give the exact fa...)
In writing this work my aim has been to give the exact facts as far as the available material allows. Necessarily it is impossible, from the very nature of the case, to obtain all the facts. It is obvious that in both past and present times the chief beneficiaries of our social and industrial system have found it to their interest to represent their accumulations as the rewards of industry and ability, and have likewise had the strongest motives for concealing the circumstances of all those complex and devious methods which have been used in building up great fortunes. In this they have been assisted by a society so constituted that the means by which these great fortunes have been amassed have been generally lauded as legitimate and exemplary. The possessors of towering fortunes have hitherto been described in two ways. On the one hand, they have been held up as marvels of success, as preeminent examples of thrift, enterprise and extraordinary ability. More recently, however, the tendency in certain quarters has been diametrically the opposite. This latter class of writers, intent upon pandering to a supposed popular appetite for sensation, pile exposure upon exposure, and hold up the objects of their diatribes as monsters of commercial and political crime. Neither of these classes has sought to establish definitely the relation of the great fortunes to the social and industrial system which has propagated them.
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Gustavus Myers was an American journalist, historian and reformer.
Background
Gustavus Myers was born on March 20, 1872, in Trenton, New Jersey, one of five children (four boys and a girl) of Jewish parents, Abram Myers and Julia Hillman; he was a younger brother of the painter Jerome Myers. His mother was a native of Baltimore, his father the son of a French soldier, who had settled in Virginia after the Napoleonic wars.
Abram Myers was a wanderer who did little to support his wife and children; they moved north from Virginia to New Jersey, and thence to Philadelphia and New York City.
Education
Gustavus was reared in poverty and saw little of either parent, having been "shunted off" to three public institutions during his childhood.
At fourteen he was put to work in a factory, where he developed a keen sympathy for the underprivileged. He continued his own education by reading avidly and attending public lectures.
Career
Myers began newspaper work on the Philadelphia Record when he was nineteen years old, then moved to New York to write for newspapers and magazines. He developed a clear journalistic style, serious and without graces.
Meanwhile he had developed his lifelong habits of research which, though untutored, resulted in formidable accumulations of original materials. His first targets, inspired by his associations in New York's Social Reform Club, were corruption in the dispensing of public franchises and Tammany Hall.
His "History of the Public Franchises in New York City, " published in the reform periodical Municipal Affairs (March 1900), foreshadowed the muckraking era, though because of its provocative tone it met little public response. His History of Tammany Hall (1901) also failed to impress; it was too radical in its approach, and too unaware of the sources of Tammany's durability. Only a limited edition was issued (Myers published it himself), and rumor had it that copies were being mysteriously bought up to withdraw them from the market. Then Myers settled into a routine of library research, articles for magazines, and concern for the future of socialism, as in his contributions to The New Encyclopedia of Social Reform (1908 edition) of William D. P. Bliss.
During much of the first decade of the twentieth century he worked without encouragement on what would become his best-known study, his History of the Great American Fortunes. Living within limited means, he was scornful of his muckraking contemporaries, who gained audiences and profit from what seemed to him shallow investigations. Although his own investigations were rigorous, they were circumscribed by socialistic premises which did not take into account differences in human psychology or traditions. His manuscript was rejected by a variety of publishers, but was finally issued (1909 - 1910) in three volumes by the Chicago socialist publisher Charles H. Kerr. Taking to task historians' uncritical treatment of America's men of wealth, Myers sought to show that their fortunes had been accumulated, not through the mythical virtues of industry and honesty, but rather by preemption and plunder. The book brought him his first substantial newspaper and magazine reviews, but these did not help his cause. The American Historical Review (July 1910), in a notice by Emerson D. Fite, acknowledged Myers's research, but saw the text as "a socialistic tract, " and "so interlarded with rant as to be disappointing. " The book gradually won a following, however, and by the depression year of 1936 was considered enough of a classic to be reissued in the Modern Library series.
Myers pressed on to publish, in similar vein (and also through Kerr and Company), his History of the Supreme Court (1912) and History of Canadian Wealth (1914). Beyond the Borderline of Life (1910) collected articles he had written on psychic phenomena.
Following American entry into World War I, Myers served with conviction on the Creel Committee on Public Information, which sought to bolster the war effort by patriotic and anti-German literature. His own The German Myth: The Falsity of Germany's "Social Progress" Claims (1918) found him on the side of dominant American opinion. A new concern for bigotry set him on a fresh track of investigation. His Ye Olden Blue Laws (1921), which traced sumptuary legislation in America from colonial times onward, was cordially received. Myers now wrote with some regularity for the New York Times, the Century, and other publications.
In 1925 his History of American Idealism, reversing his earlier attitudes, portrayed America as progressively correcting its social inequities. He welcomed Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal as evidence of intrinsic American nobility. Myers became sensitive to foreign criticism of America, and in America Strikes Back (1935), his one best seller, he defended his country at length from foreign "baiting. "
Continuing to develop his new positive approach, Myers in 1939 published The Ending of Hereditary American Fortunes, in which he argued that the redistribution of wealth in America was nearly complete. It was a book, as a Time reviewer wryly observed, from which "leftists (were) not likely to crib" (November 27, 1939).
In 1941 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to enable him to continue his researches on bigotry. He suffered a collapse while completing his work and died on December 7, 1942, at his home in the Bronx section of New York City of a cerebral hemorrhage. He was buried in New York's Woodlawn Cemetery. His History of Bigotry in the United States was published posthumously in 1943.
In the 1890s, Gustavus Myers became a member of the People's Party (commonly known as the "Populists"), later joining the Socialist Party of America (SPA). He left the Socialist party in 1912, critical of what he deemed its materialism and anti-individualism.
Personality
Gustavus Myers was a slight, sober man of intellectual mien.
Connections
On Decembert 23, 1904, Gustavus Myers married Genevieve Whitney of Springfield, Massachusetts. They had two children, Theobald Kirkhoven and Marcella Kirkhoven.