It was no secret, however, that he was the most advanced Free Trader in the Peel Cabinet, and that the policy of the government in regard to this great measure of 1846 was to a large extent moulded by him.
On one side the Conservative Free-trader clings fondly and tenaciously to the Toryism of his youth, on another, he is reaching out toward new realms of Liberal thought and action.
Her father no sooner entered the apartment, than he was known by Joshua to be a considerable trader in the city of London, and the merchant was glad to find himself among his acquaintance.
The trader caught a glimpse of her as she disappeared down the bank, and calling loudly to Sam and Andy, was after her like a hound after a deer.
I'd like to have been able to kick the fellow down the steps," said Mr. Shelby to himself, when the trader had bowed himself out.
We believe they contain instructions about what he must do when the fighting begins, but, to avoid suspicion, Altiera is sending a foreign trader to whom he has given some privileges.
Still, it's necessary for a traderto state his terms.
Old Gurden, the trader there, and my husband had had business dealings with each other for many years.
Whilst we were lying at anchor at Lêle we met an old trader there, with whom Tracey and myself frequently spent an evening.
The master and owner of the cutter was a German trader living on Pleasant Island.
The trader could not procure the twine, and when spring arrived the man came to get on credit his usual advance of "tings.
To my intense surprise and satisfaction the traderimmediately turned round and said: "You are quite right.
Our trader friends had already appeared on the scene, and were joking the parson for being tricked, saying that evidently we had made a mistake and were really at Cape Norman, the place to which he had intended to go.
As a magistrate I once heard a case where a poor man paid one hundred dollars in cash to his trader in the fall to get him a new net.
From the bill for these the trader deducted the hundred dollars cash, upon which the man actually came to me as a justice of the peace to have him punished!
But the traderknew that the truck system creates slippery, tricky men; and the fisherman openly declares war on the merchant, making the most of his few opportunities to outwit his opponent.
This fact often became evident when we were trying to order special diets--the patient would reply, "Our trader won't give out that.
We went to histrader to find out how much he was in debt.
Trader and adventurer by instinct, Wilson, as his record had shown, would promptly accept a brickyard or a grocery in exchange for live stock or a farm, and preferred any new enterprise to a business with which he was familiar.
An invitation to come in and sit down was accepted, for I felt a desire to see the interior of a cabin that was so remarkably situated, for it was not a location that a trader or trapper would naturally select.
Then, to the surprise of all, the girl addressed them in very fair English, and told them that her father when living was a fur trader with M.
And when the Indian has done his trading the trader has most of his money back again.
It was bought outside, it was brought into the country, it was set on exhibition in the store, because some trader judged it likely to attract a native eye.
Some, unfortunately, are in quite as assiduous training by the unscrupulous Indian trader and his coterie of low-down whites.
So here he was, some six or seven months installed, teacher, preacher, trader in a small way, and indefatigable worker in general.
The independent trader makes money, sometimes makes large money, and makes it fairly easily, but the calling seems to appeal mainly, if not wholly, to men of low character and no conscience.
The mother herself would not have taken her as a gift, had it been in the nature of a negro-trader to give away anything.
For the slave-trader there was no capital so valuable as the physical soundness of his stock; the moral was easily enough forged or counterfeited.
She had become too valuable to the negro-trader by her services among his crew, and offers only solidified his determination not to sell her.
The story of the Indian trader who bought furs by weight, putting his hand upon the scales for one weight and his foot for its double, illustrates how uncertain such judgments of quantity may be without system.
With a little painstaking the coins are made identical in value, so that every trader knows what he gives and receives.
SANTA ANNA "Trader Peter has worked 12 months for your firm and has not received any pay yet.
Unhappy the trader who tried to learn them all; for in the next group to which he might wander he would find scores of additional tongues.
Here is a letter, dictated by one Peter, a native traderat Santa Anna, and addressed to his employer.
You, monster, caused your master to deal roughly with the trader when he complained of you, and the man packed up his wares and went away from our house with a curse on his lips.
You wrote the parchment strip of Struvelius; the trader has informed against you in your native city.
Then came the word through Indian andtrader (the only long-distance telephones of that time) that forts were beginning to grow where the plates had been planted.
Then in time the European trader went in friendly search of the Indian by these same paths, and they became the avenues of petty commerce.
Is it not the same lust that induces the trader to send his noxious wares to savage countries and drive the miserable inhabitants to a deeper misery and degradation than ever?
Catastrophes are always happening: the ruined gambler blows out his brains; the dishonest clerk becomes a convict, the unhappy young wife gets into the divorce court, the scandalous trader sinks into bankruptcy and misery.
A sailor and trader who has travelled much through the known sea-roads of this world, and has a desire to travel upon others not so well known.
Was he, in his relations with Spain and the world, a trader in the names rather than the substance of things?
Your situation upon this great water line connecting the St. Lawrence with the Hudson was an early suggestion to the trader as well as to the invader.
A better distinction is this: The free-trader believes in levying customs duties without any regard to the effect of those duties upon the wages of our working people, or upon the production of our own shops.
Then I saw that it was no time for laughing, for Gleazen and Gideon North were standing grimly face to face, and Arnold and Matterson and the trader were gathering close around them.
As if Arnold's question implied permission for him also to have his say, the trader spread both hands in a gesture of despair at such ignorance as it manifested.
But even Arnold and I could scarcely have borne to do that, for the trader was guiltless enough according to his lights, and Abe Guptil was struggling with them in the water.
In the stern beside the trader lay Matterson; and though his face, we could see, was streaked with blood, he menaced the negroes upstream with a loaded pistol.
But all the time the drums beat, and far away we would hear now and then calls and shouts that made the strange trader and Gleazen and O'Hara exchange significant glances.
Glancing round at our pursuers, Gleazen spoke in an undertone to Matterson, and both they and the trader studied the shore ahead of us.
Leaning out, Arnold and I laid hands on Abe and Matterson; and while the negro held the canoe in place, the girl herself reached back and caught that rascal of a traderby the hair.
The trader nodded and spread his hands as if in despair.
The trader sits ready on his stall; the judge is on the bench; the physician allays pain; the mother tends her child.
Have been an Indian trader for the past fifteen years.
The trader carries on operations with fictitious capital, much higher in amount than his real capital.
It is evident that the interest of the trader is opposed to that of the consumer and of the producer.
A trader with a capital of twelve hundred pounds will carry on operations, by means of bills and credit, on a scale of four, eight, or twelve thousand pounds.
The trader is a go-between, who profits by the general anarchy and the non-organization of industry.
This letter I gave to a trader who was trekking to the bay on the following morning, begging him to forward it by the first opportunity.
Never had I seen her look so sweet and beautiful as she did when she greeted me, arrayed no longer in rags, but in a simple yet charming dress made of some stuff that she had managed to buy from a trader who came up to the camp from Durban.
Don José, when sober, was a trader with the natives, and a year before had acquired from them two good buck wagons.
The usual laconic answer was given; and, for a few moments, the Bristol trader was seen diverging a little from the line in which the other approached; but a second glance assured Wilder that the attempt was useless.
Tell me, did you ever see an American trader with such a beautifully cut suit of canvas as that fellow spreads?
The trader who bought her mother did not wish to buy her.
