Wealth Against CommonwealthHarper & Brothers, 1894 - 563 lappuses |
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475. lappuse - All courts shall be open, and every man, for an injury done him in his lands, goods, person, or reputation, shall have remedy by due course of law, and right and justice administered, without sale, denial, or delay.
431. lappuse - The president of the sugar trust, before a special committee of the United States Senate, testified that this " politics of business" was the custom of "every individual and corporation and firm, trust, or whatever you call it."" Asked if he contributed to the State campaign funds, he said : " We always do that. ... In the State of
261. lappuse - Seest thon a man diligent in business, he shall stand before kings. He shall not stand before mean men.
432. lappuse - York, where the Democratic majority is between 40,000 and 50,000, we throw it their way. In the State of Massachusetts, where the Republican party is doubtful, they probably have the call. . . . "Wherever there is a dominant party, wherever the majority is very large, that is the party that gets the contribution, because that is the party which controls the local matters
11. lappuse - enormous amounts of money are allowed to be accumulated in the vaults of corporations, to be used at discretion in controlling the property and business of the country against the interest of the public and that of the people, for the personal gain and aggrandizement of a few individuals.
553. lappuse - of all our modern haste to be rich is assuredly and constantly the murder of a certain number of persons by our hands every year." To be unawakened by this new voice is bad enough, but we shut our ears even against the old conscience. We cannot deal with this unless we cleanse our hearts of all disordering rage. "The
481. lappuse - throughout the entire country, and by which it might not merely control the production but the price at its pleasure. All such associations are contrary to the policy of our State and void.
556. lappuse - or more selfish or less multitudinous influences of persons or classes, then this power should be taken up by the people. " The mere conflict of private interests will never produce a well-ordered commonwealth of labor," says the author of the article on political economy in the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The failure of monarchy and feudalism and the visibly impending failure of our business system all reveal
9. lappuse - forbidding every one to give them fire and water. That was done by all to a few. In America it is done by a few to all. A small number of men are obtaining the power to forbid any but themselves to supply the people with
550. lappuse - believing that mankind must be kept terrorized. Powers of pity die out of them, because they work through agents and die in their agents, because what they do is not for themselves. Of gods, friends, learnings, of the uncomprehended civilization they overrun, they ask but one question : How much
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