 | Israel Smith Clare - World history - 1906 - 468 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 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1907 - 114 pages
...SIXTH Killing the dog does not cure the bite. 5 E VE NTH I am nothing, but truth is everything. EIGHTH Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. NINTH Whatever shall appear to be God's will, I will do. TENTH JUNE ELE VE NT H Can aliens make treaties... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1907 - 738 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 - 1907 - 322 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 - 1907 - 320 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... | |
 | Horace Garvin Platt - United States - 1908 - 296 pages
...and he voiced this sentiment in that part of this message which Mr. Bryan omitted to quote. He said: "Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital...has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as other rights." Lincoln was essentially a man of the people, and his great human heart had room in it... | |
 | Democratic Party (U.S.), Democratic National Committee (U.S.) - Campaign literature - 1908 - 332 pages
...The Republican party is in accord with the great emancipator, Abraham Lincoln, when he declared that "labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital...Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much more consideration." Through his wise and humane policy the shackles were stricken from the limbs of... | |
 | Albert Shaw - 1908 - 1200 pages
...GOMPERS, OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR. tion of Lincoln, which labor submitted for adoption, that " labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital...Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much more consideration." Indeed, the convention disregarded the martyred Lincoln's warning that " you can... | |
 | Iron and steel workers - 1908 - 956 pages
...evidently were not in accord with the declaration of Lincoln which labor submitted for adoption that, "labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital...Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much more consideration." Indeed, the convention disregarded the martyred Lincoln's warning that "you can... | |
 | Social problems - 1917 - 230 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 is only the fruit of labor and could not have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves higher... | |
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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. 
