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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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pproaching a political contest in which funda-mental issues, in-volving both do-mestic policy andour relations toforeign peoples,are at stake, hisrecord as Presi-dent, and his po-sition with re-gard to thesepolicies, are legit-imately beforethe people fordiscussion. Forthis reason, inthis brief review,which is aimedto be partly acharacter sketchand partly a sum-mary of the moreimportant of hisacts as President,we will not dwellat length on hiswell-known lifebefore enteringthe Presidency. The story ofhis boyhood andliis young man-hood ; how, as aprivate soldier,at the age ofeighteen, he en-listed in the ar-my ; how he re-c e i v e d meritedpromotion and after a gallant military service in the Civil Warbegan the practice of law at Canton ; how lie en-tered Congress, and by dint of his ability andstudy became the leader of his party ; how liebecame Governor of Oliio,—all tins has beenfully told, not only in the pages of this Kevikw,but in all the American press, until it is fainilijii-
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Copyrij^Hit, 1900. r.irixtr, Washington. PRESIDENT WILLIAM MKIM.EV (From a recent pliotoiiiaiili.) to every one who keeps in touch with the cur-rent history of leading men and events. On the 4th of March, 1897, he assumed theduties of the exalted office of President of theUnited States. It was a time of marked indus-trial depression. Business and commerce were lagging, andlarge numVjers ofpeople through-out the countrysought employ-ment. The plat-form upon whichhe had beenelected declaredfor a change inour tariff lawswhich would rec-ognize more fullyt h e protectiveprinciple, and foithe enactment ofa law w h i c hwould firmly es-tablish gold asthe monetarystandard of thenation. The newPresident imme-diately assembled(ongress in ex-traordinary ses-sion , and ad-dressed to it amessage urginga revision of tlieexisting tarifflaws, u n d e rwhich businesswas suffering aiuldeficient re v o.n u e s were endangering the na-tions credit andtlie stability of itscurrency. This prompt action m co

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