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"No Western farmer, at present prices of grain,
beef and produce, can pay
wages, taxes,
support his family in comfort - much less pay off his mortgage.
Some
of the newspapers are already saying that the farm laborer of the Northwest
must submit to a reduction of
wages.
Other newspapers declare that
our farmers must lose their farm,
and let us have the Tenant Farm System
that prevails in Europe.
Conversing with a banker in Kansas,
a very clever gentleman, I
spoke to him of the great evils that
would follow the loss of the farm.
He laughed pleasantly, "I think the farmers will have to lose
their farms."
When the farms have been
devoured, it will be an easy
matter to finish the merchants and grocers of the country towns." - L.B.
Woolfolk, 1880
Since 2006, the
enlargement of full containerships size has remained a continuous trend since
Emma Maersk broke into the world of shipping.
This process - that also
affected north-south trades - has crucial implications in the shipping
business, particularly in the planning of ports and its services and related
activities.
This paper analyses the global increase in vessel size and
forecasts larger vessels' arrival to South American coasts.
The paper
analyses evidence since 2006 to understand the factors behind the trend for
bigger ships (fleets between 18,000 and 24,000 TEU) and introduce a validated
methodology for the prediction of the size of container ships.
The trend
towards gigantism in container ships remains in force, which was reflected in
the emergence in 2006 of the EMMA MAERSK -15,500 TEU-, in 2013 with the TRIPLE
E MAERSK series -18,000 TEU-, and in 2019 with the GÜLSUN -23,756- TEU,
which falls within the MGX-24 category.
2020 pandemic creates varying
reactions on behalf of the shipping sector.
The financial resolution of
the present crisis may significantly alter the degree of concentration in the
industry. |
Philip Danforth Armour is
a member of the Board of Trade which controls the
price of pork, bacon, beef, wheat and
grain.
Dealing in futures on the
Board of Trade is a system originated for the purpose of enabling those
with immense wealth to force stocks up or down
without any regard to the actual value for
monopolistic purposes.
Through their control
of the Boards of Trade and
their monopoly of the traffic in farming
products they put down the price of farming products until it was
impossible for the farmers to pay off
the mortgages.
English manufactures and the mercantile
shipping houses started branch houses in New York filled with high quality
goods.
In order to monopolize trade the drummer system, originated
in England, was brought to America and most of the trade of the country ended
up moving through the New York branch houses.
The Western and Southern
merchants had been in the habit of visiting New York City, once or twice a
year, to buy new stocks of goods.
1857 Carpet-baggers offer the
Southern and Western merchants goods of better quality at lower prices than
they can get in New York.
New York merchants fail and retire from
business as they can no longer compete with the rock bottom prices.
1873 In order to accommodate the
import merchants of New York City American tariff duties are payable, not when the
goods are placed in the warehouse, but when they are taken out for sale.
The London merchants, under the American warehouse system, could store
goods in the New York warehouse, free of charge, and let them lie there for any
length of time; and might if they chose withdraw them without payment of duty
and ship them to any other market.
It was cheaper to store goods in the
New York Custom House rather than in their own warehouses in London as the US
government built the warehouses and offered them free use of it for the storage
of their goods.
"I found New York merchants were
putting down cotton goods to an
extremely low price, one-tenth of a cent a yard below the cost of
production.
Drummers were everywhere urging merchants through the
country to buy, on account of the low price, which they said would not last
very long .
I at first wondered how, with
the protection of a high tariff,
the price of cotton goods could be so
very low.
I knew it was not accidental, for the fixed price,
one-tenth of a cent a yard below the cost of
production in New England, showed that it was
done by design." - L.B.
Woolfolk
1880 Thomas William House, an English
immigrant who has made a fortune as a blockade runner during the War Between
the States, diesd the third-richest man in Texas, leaving to his children an
estate valued at $500,000.
Thomas House keeps this fortune in a
Rothschild bank.
His son, Edward, plays an important part in
getting four governors elected in Texas and in guiding their policies in
office.
Edward then goes on
to lay out a plan on how to
impliment Fabian socialism.
The Únĕtice
culture, the most important archaeological culture of the Central European
Bronze Age, dates roughly to 2300–1600 BC.
Únĕtice
culture is associated with ingot torcs made from tin and bronze intended for
trading as raw metal.
Village Únĕtice, is located in Central
Czech Republic, northwest of Prague, under the
Ore Mountains in the
fertile cereal country.
The Ore mountains became a
magnet for traders, soldiers and all sorts of people due to its economic
prosperity along the Amber trading route.
Únĕtice culture
spread to all the areas surrounding the Ore Mountains.
Archaeological sites exist in the Czech Republic and
Slovakia (1400 sites),
Silesia in Poland (550 sites) and Germany (500 sites).
The
Únĕtice culture is associated with north-eastern Austria and
western Ukraine Böheimkirchen Group. |
1755 Tillet establishes seed-borne
fungi (Tilletia
tritici, T. laevis) cause bunt that could be controlled by seed
treatments of lime, or lime and salt.
This follows an observation -
wheat seed salvaged at sea was free of bunt.
"A few men buy all the wheat
of the country.
There is no competition; the railroads fix the
price of wheat and grains to suit themselves, and grind the farmer down into
absolute poverty.
They not only plunder the
farmer in the price, but they cheat in the measurement which fixes the
quality of the wheat.
Several years ago, #1 wheat was 90 cents a
bushel, #2 75 cents, and #3, 60 cents a bushel .
The wheat was so
graded by the buyers, that all wheat weighing 60 lbs. and over to the bushel
was rated #1 ; all wheat weighing 56 lbs. and over, #2; and all wheat weighing
52 lbs. and over #3.
If the wheat were measured in the good old
fashioned way in an honest half bushel measure, most of the wheat would weigh
60 lbs. to the bushel, and be rated as #1.
These monopolists cheat
systematically in the measure.
They use an oval gallon measure, easily
battered, by accident, to diminish its capacity.
Into such a small
measure the wheat will not pack close, when poured very gently out of a pitcher
into it.
They then weigh the gallon and multiply by 8 to find
the weight of a
bushel.
By this system of measurement little of the wheat rates as
#1; and very much of it is rated as #3.
In this way, when #1 wheat was
selling at 90 cents a bushel, this system of measuring caused much of it to be
rated as #3, which brought only 60 cents a bushel .
When the wheat is
sold out of the elevators, where it was under pressure, all of it would weigh
60 lbs. to the bushel, and be sold as #1!" - LB Woolfolk
The nightmarishly complex wheat genome finally yields to
scientists
1888 American wheat crop is
fifty million bushels short.
A syndicate of Cincinnati capitalists
organize capital of $12,000,000 to operate in the Chicago market.
They
have capital enough to make their operations a sure success under the rules of
the Chicago Board of Trade, which only allows wheat to be sold as it is
delivered into the elevator.
The Chicago Board of Trade then
rescinds the rule prohibiting sale of wheat except as delivered into elevators
and allows it to be sold out of rail cars.
The Chicago Board of
Trade sold the Cincinnati syndicate wheat at seventy cents a bushel,
till their $12,000,000 was gone.
Once the money was gone the price of
wheat went to sixty cents a bushel !
Fifty million bushels short
and the supply inadequate to meet
the demand it was expected that wheat would have gone up to at least one
dollar a bushel !
"Boards of Trade are instruments controlled
at will by the Money
Power.
The law of supply and demand is
wholly abrogated as the will of the
money power has become the sole regulator of prices.
Law of supply and demand only regulates prices when
there is a free market
and free competition of buyers
and sellers operates to regulate prices.
There is no such competition
now; the agents of the
money power are the only buyers of all produce.
Boards of Trade are
subdued by them, and answer to their manipulations.
By the might of
capital, they can regulate prices in any Board of Trade.
The money
power controls absolutely the Chicago Board of Trade, and Chicago regulates the
price of produce for the whole country in utter disregard of
the law of supply and
demand, and in utter violation of all the
economic laws that regulate prices." - L.B. Woolfolk
The high price
of flour in comparison with wheat reveals agents of the money power have a
large number of flour mills in their possession.
The occasional sharp
falls in the flour market, crushing mill owners of small capital, and the
purchase of the flour mills in Minneapolis shows their desire to crush all
competitors and get possession of the entire business.
1890
"I traveled widely through Missouri, and everywhere I found
statements that two-thirds to three-fourths of the farm are under
mortgage!
In Iowa, the same state of fact exists.
In some
counties of that state, where farm used to sell for twenty-five dollars per
acre, the farm were mortgaged for one-third of their value; and after a number
of farms were bought in by the mortgagee for eight dollars an acre, the amount
of the mortgage, all the lands receded to that price.
In Kansas, a very
large proportion of the farms are mortgaged - a much larger proportion than in
Iowa or Missouri.
A banker said to me, "The money line of these Land
Loan Companies always has three points: the agent in the West, who loans the
money; the intermediary in the East, from whom he gets it; but the third point
in the line is always London.
There is where the money comes from."
A little bank in Connecticut can loan millions of dollars every year,
when it is only making in its regular business some twenty thousand dollars a
year.
About 2/3 of the farm of the states of Ohio,
Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri and
Kansas were mortgaged by 1890 for 1/3 of their value, on
five years time." - LB Woolfolk
The farmlands of the Great Plains pass
into the hands of the Money Power much as the lands of the Southern plantations
had passed into their hands in the years following the
Civil War.
1891 28% of all farms
are rented by tenants.
By
1900 there are 4.5 million farm laborers.
"We are authorizing
our loan officers from the Western States to loan on properties, monies
repayable by September 1st, 1894.
No fatal date is to exceed this date.
On September 1st, 1894, we shall categorically refuse all loan
renewals.
On that day, we shall demand the repayment of our money,
under penalty of foreclosure on
collaterals.
The mortgaged properties will become
ours.
We'll thus be able to acquire, at a price agreeable to us,
two-thirds of the farms west of the Mississippi and thousands more east of this
great river.
We'll even
be able to possess ¾ of the western farms as well as all the money in
the country.
The farmers will then become land tenants only, just like
in England." - confidential banker's leaflet 1891
Licensing laws now guard entry
into hundreds of occupations, including jobs that offer upward mobility to
those of modest means, such as cosmetologist, auctioneer, athletic trainer and
landscape contractor.
Yet research provides scant evidence that
licensing does what it is supposed to do - raise the quality of services and
protect consumers.
Instead, licensing laws often protect those who
already have licenses from competition, keeping newcomers out and prices
high.
In most states, it takes 12 times longer to get a license to cut
hair as a cosmetologist than to get a license to administer life-saving care as
an emergency medical technician.
Before restricting the right to earn an
honest living, lawmakers should demand substantial, empirical proof of
widespread and significant harm, then select the least
restrictive alternative
regulation targeted to address it.
The
United States Supreme
Court has explained that a suit at common law is a suit that would have
entitled a litigant to a jury trial under English common law in 1791 when the
Seventh Amendment was ratified.
Under English common law in 1791
maritime suits, suits against the government, or suits seeking equitable as
opposed to legal relief such as injunctions may be tried without
juries.
1925
The Federal Arbitration Act specifically directs federal
courts to enforce arbitration agreements in
lieu of civil litigation.
1931 In
Hardware Dealers' Mutual Fire Ins. Co. of Wisconsin v. Glidden Co. the
Court upholds a state arbitration statute: "The Fourteenth Amendment neither
implies that all trials must be by jury, nor guarantees any particular form or
method of state procedure."
Contracts for
credit cards,
car purchases,
health care,
bank loans and most contracts
between a living
person and a fake person now
contain mandatory arbitration agreements which
effectively undermine
the Fifth and
Seventh Amendments to the
Constitution.
A
patent's exclusive right can be drawn narrowly to cover only
a specific invention or it can be
drawn broadly, to block a wide range of products sharing certain basic
features.
A broad patent is obviously more valuable to the owner.
A patent cannot be so broad as to cover old ideas, those in use in a
"prior art" to use patent law terminology.
1922 Christian Kent
Nelson and Russell Stover file a patent for the Eskimo Pie.
In
the case of the Eskimo Pie, patent breadth would be the central
problem.
The difficulty of making the Eskimo Pie lay in the
formula for the chocolate
coating.
One would imagine the patent described
precise ratios of cocoa
butter to chocolate, temperatures for heating and cooling, or the number of
seconds to dip.
The patent contains none of that.
Running scant
text, the patent merely describes "a core consisting of a block of ice cream,
of general rectangular
configuration," that is "sealed within a shell of
edible material which may be like that employed in coating chocolate
candies, preferably modified to harden at a lower temperature."
There
is no description of coating composition or how it is to be
"modified."
This broad patent is designed to monopolize the entire
market of coated ice cream bars.
1923
The Eskimo Pie Corp. sues competitors.
1928 "Ultimately the breadth of the patent sinks
the company.
The Eskimo Pie Corp. attempted to monopolize ice cream
bars and it was then forced to defend that attempt at monopoly at great cost.
The patent and the company's finances were placed under too much heat
and pressure, and like an ice cream bar in an oven, they simply melted away." -
Charles Duan, Ice Cream Patent Headache |
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