 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - Presidents - 1866 - 578 pages
...free man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer, Both these assumptions are fixlsc, and all inferences from them are groundless. "Labor...fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor Lad not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves mutA the higher consideration.... | |
 | Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry - Industrial arts - 1869 - 576 pages
...as a free man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer. Both these assumptions are false, and all inferences from them are groundless....prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - New Hampshire - 1887 - 434 pages
...to and independent of cipitAl. (Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed it' labor had not first existed. Labor Is the superior of capital, and deserves much the hiuher consideration. Capital ha* its right*, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights."... | |
 | Freeman Otis Willey - Currency question - 1882 - 564 pages
...of this people on twenty-four hours' notice. Hear Lincoln again in his message to Congress in 1861: "Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and never could have existed, if labor had not first existed. Labor is much the superior, and deserves... | |
 | Charles Maltby - California - 1884 - 340 pages
...the perpetuation of African slavery ; that it is, in fact, a war upon the rights of working people. Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital...is the superior of capital, and deserves much the highest consideration. Capital has its rights which are as worthy of protectection as any other rights.... | |
 | Corodon S. Cannon - Economics - 1884 - 96 pages
...labor as that, nor is there any such free man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer. Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital...labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of eapital, and deserves much the highest consideration. No men living are more to be trusted than those... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - Presidents - 1886 - 804 pages
...right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms, by no means excluding females." In 1854, he said : " Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital...existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the support of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." In April of the same year, he said... | |
 | Railroads - 1886 - 414 pages
...observer. Abraham Lincoln once said: ''Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is but the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed." But under present conditions, capital seems to feel an entire independence of labor, and to demand... | |
 | Symmes M. Jelley - Knights of labor - 1887 - 390 pages
...poor, debasing manhood, forcing them into vice and crime? President Lincoln said in his second message: "Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital...labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior and deserves much higher consideration." Webster said in his speech in 1837: "The interest of this... | |
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. 
