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A Few Practical Comments: Usury Law
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This is Mr. Carey's explanation of the process by which a dealer becomes a'money-lender. It is not difficult for him to draw any class into his service when he needs that service. From the largest dealer to him who scores his' charge on the bar-room door, with the sum of all their sales with interest added, he has them at his command, and by a breath converts them into lenders of money. But does he not practise a species of inhumanity of which he should be ashamed in this transformation of the honest dealer into a money-lender - a Shylock? Having now shown who are the lenders of' money, the next step is to create the borrowers and' the amount borrowed. These obscure facts are reached by a summary process. Zsixteen millions of people in the United States, Mr.
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This is Mr. Carey's explanation of the process by which a dealer becomes a'money-lender. It is not difficult for him to draw any class into his service when he needs that service. From the largest dealer to him who scores his' charge on the bar-room door, with the sum of all their sales with interest added, he has them at his command, and by a breath converts them into lenders of money. But does he not practise a species of inhumanity of which he should be ashamed in this transformation of the honest dealer into a money-lender - a Shylock? Having now shown who are the lenders of' money, the next step is to create the borrowers and' the amount borrowed. These obscure facts are reached by a summary process. Zsixteen millions of people in the United States, Mr.
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.
25 pages, Paperback
First published September 27, 2015
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