 | Labor laws and legislation - 1917 - 716 pages
...what followed his address to Congress in December, 1861, wherein he used these pregnant expressions: It is the effort to place capital on an equal footing...government. It is assumed that labor is available only in connection with capital; that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, induces him to labor.... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1861 - 926 pages
...insurrection is largely, if not exclusively, a war upon the first principle of popular government — the rights of the people. Conclusive evidence of this...assumed that labor is available only in connexion Avith capital; that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, somehow by the use of it, induces... | |
 | Labor unions - 1913 - 1190 pages
...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...is the effort to place capital on an equal footing, if not above, labor, in the structure of government. It is assumed that labor is available only in... | |
 | Charles T. Sprading - Libertarianism - 1913 - 550 pages
...argument K 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 10 place capital on an equal footing with, if not above, labor in n the structure of government. It... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 896 pages
...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...government. It is assumed that labor is available only in connection with capital — that nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, somehow by the... | |
 | Thomas E. Schneider - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 241 pages
...slave labor: the political consequences are made unmistakably clear. Lincoln begins by referring to "the effort to place capital on an equal footing with,...not above labor, in the structure of government." He ends by warning "those who toil up from poverty" to "beware of surrendering a political power which... | |
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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... 
