 | Burns, W.F. - Pullman Strike, 1894 - 1894 - 326 pages
...owning capital somehow by the use of it induces him to labor. * * * Labor is prior to and independant of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor and...capital and deserves much the higher consideration. * * * No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty; none less inclined... | |
 | Labor unions - 1903 - 662 pages
...the question of capital and labor. He said: "Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capita is the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital and deserves much the higher consideration." CF NESBIT. BRIDGETON, NJ, Sept. 9,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 1080 pages
...groundless. They hold that labor is prior to, and independent of , capital: that, in fact, capital is the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed ; that labor can exist without capital, but that capital could never have existed without labor. Hence... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 444 pages
...groundless. They hold that labor is prior to, and independent of, capital ; that, in fact, capital is the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed; that labor can exist without capital, but that capital could never have existed without labor. Hence... | |
 | George Davis Herron - Christian sociology - 1895 - 228 pages
...somehow, by the use of it, induces him to labor." Continuing, Mr. Lincoln proposed this principle : " 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 the superior of capital, and deserves... | |
 | George Davis Herron - History - 1895 - 228 pages
...somehow, by the use of it, induces him to labor." Continuing, Mr. Lincoln proposed this principle : " 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 the superior of capital, and deserves... | |
 | Democratic Party. National Committee, 1896-1900 - Campaign literatur - 1896 - 396 pages
...unless .somebody else owning capital somehow, by the use of it, induces him to labor." And then he adds, "Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital...capital and deserves much the higher consideration." And, mark these words of his, "No lieu living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan - Silver question - 1896 - 636 pages
...unless somebody else owning capital somehow, by the use of it, induces him to labor. And then he adds: Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital...capital and deserves much the higher consideration. And mark these words of his: No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toll up from... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 502 pages
...nor is there any such thing as a free man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer. Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital...never have existed if labor had not first existed. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights. Nor is it denied that... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1897 - 858 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....never have existed if labor had not first existed. I^abor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights,... | |
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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. 
