| Printing - 1902 - 856 pages
...labors unless somebody else owning capital somehow by the use ol it induces him to labor. But capital is the fruit of labor and could never have existed if...capital and deserves much the higher consideration. * * * No men living are more worthv to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty; none less inclined... | |
| John Punnett Peters - Arbitration, Industrial - 1902 - 520 pages
...supremacy and oppression. Labor creates, capital confiscates, under our present system. Lincoln said that "labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital...and could never have existed if labor had not first 374 existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." What would... | |
| John Punnett Peters - Arbitration, Industrial - 1902 - 522 pages
...supremacy and oppression. Labor creates, capital confiscates, under our present system. Lincoln said that "labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital...and could never have existed if labor had not first 374 existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." What would... | |
| Ohio. Secretary of State - Ohio - 1903 - 1000 pages
...profitably employed in adding to the wealth and prosperity of our people. We believe with Lincoln that, "Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never...capital and deserves much the higher consideration." To secure for labor the consideration it deserves ; to uphold the dignity of toil ; to create a healthy... | |
| Albert Richard Parsons, Lucy Eldine Parsons - Anarchism - 1903 - 410 pages
...the red flag. Suspended above the center of the platform was a large canvas, on which was the motto : "Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and never could have existed had not labor first existed. Labor is much the superior and deserves much... | |
| Jesse Harper - 1904 - 420 pages
...currency and over the money system of the country." 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 the higher consideration." Having thus shown, in brief, the supremacy of labor and... | |
| Walter Thomas Mills - Economics - 1904 - 652 pages
...place capital upon an equal footing with, if not above, labor in the structure of government. » * * Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital...labor, and could never have existed if labor had not existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher .consideration. The prudent,... | |
| State Bar Association of North Dakota - Bar associations - 1909 - 1020 pages
...experiences and general view of life of most of the judges have made this inevitable. President Lincoln said: "Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor; it could never have existed, if labor had not existed first. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves... | |
| Sidney Armor Reeve - Competition - 1906 - 682 pages
...nobody labors unless somebody else, owning capital, somehow by the use of it induces him to labor. " Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital...capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." — ABRAHAM LINCOLN, December 3, 1861. IN considering the ethical aspects of the relations between... | |
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