 | Labor unions - 1909 - 1130 pages
...I to omit exercising a warning voice against returning despotism. There is one point to which I ask attention; it is the effort to place capital on an equal footing with, if not above labor, in the slructure of our government. I bid the laboring people to beware of surrendering a power which they... | |
 | Gabor S. Boritt, Norman O. Forness - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 486 pages
...White House and expressed his strong sympathy for them. Over the years he had repeatedly warned against "the effort to place capital on an equal footing with, if not above labor." When he sent his ideas to Congress, warning that if working people surrendered their political power... | |
 | G. S. Boritt - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 418 pages
...it, and repeated it, yet once more to a Workingmen's Association in 1864. He thus cautioned against "the effort to place capital on an equal footing with, if not above labor, in the structure of the government." He again argued that since labor created value it "deserves much higher consideration"... | |
 | Gwen Gorzelsky - Social Science - 2005 - 268 pages
...masthead includes this excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's 1861 message to Congress: There is one point ... to which I ask a brief attention. It is the effort...government. It is assumed that labor is available only in connection with capital; that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, somehow, by the use... | |
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It is not needed nor fitting here that a general argument should be made in favor of popular institutions, but there is one point with its connections not so hackneyed as most others, to which I ask a brief attention. It is the effort to place capital... 
