The Rights and Dangers of Property: A Sermon Delivered Before the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts, at the Annual Election, Wednesday, January 3, 1872 |
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... political motives liars will deny the above . The state is created for the happiness of the people , not for the benefit of any class . A class are deriving a profit by our system of leglslation that they would not get under a primitive ...
... political motives liars will deny the above . The state is created for the happiness of the people , not for the benefit of any class . A class are deriving a profit by our system of leglslation that they would not get under a primitive ...
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... political advantage that may come to us as a result of pleasing them , Now , I understand that if this bill should become a law and if I have a contract to deliver to the United States at Fort Leaven- worth 1,000 tons of hay , and ...
... political advantage that may come to us as a result of pleasing them , Now , I understand that if this bill should become a law and if I have a contract to deliver to the United States at Fort Leaven- worth 1,000 tons of hay , and ...
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... politics than wisdom in the bill . CONTEMPT IS DUE THE POLITICAL DEMAGOGUE . The statement made upon the floor of the House to - day that a law which makes it a penitentiary offense for a man to contract with his neighbor to work nine ...
... politics than wisdom in the bill . CONTEMPT IS DUE THE POLITICAL DEMAGOGUE . The statement made upon the floor of the House to - day that a law which makes it a penitentiary offense for a man to contract with his neighbor to work nine ...
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... , and the other honorable members here . Nor is that all . I do not know of any one on or off this floor who does not owe his success in life , whether in business or BUT politics , to extra effort and longer hours , and 13.
... , and the other honorable members here . Nor is that all . I do not know of any one on or off this floor who does not owe his success in life , whether in business or BUT politics , to extra effort and longer hours , and 13.
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... politics , to extra effort and longer hours , and the idea that somebody else has been robbed thereby is utterly at ... political advantages that will accrue to its supporters , that one gentleman hops about and frantically shrieks for ...
... politics , to extra effort and longer hours , and the idea that somebody else has been robbed thereby is utterly at ... political advantages that will accrue to its supporters , that one gentleman hops about and frantically shrieks for ...
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Page 4 - The natural price of labour is that price which is necessary to enable the labourers, one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race, without either increase or diminution.
Page 4 - It is not to be understood that the natural price of labour, estimated even in food and necessaries, is absolutely fixed and constant. It varies at different times in the same country, and very materially differs in different countries*. It essentially depends on the habits and customs of the people.
Page 29 - Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked. 8 And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Page 14 - It shall be lawful for one or more persons, acting on their own behalf or on behalf of a trade union or of an individual employer or firm in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute, to attend at or near a house or place where a person resides or works or carries on business or happens to be, if they so attend merely for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or communicating information, or of peacefully persuading any person to work or abstain from working.
Page 14 - ... liable either to pay a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, or to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labor.
Page 3 - God made man in his own image," and " gave him dominion over the fish of the sea, over the fowls of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Page 6 - It was contended at the bar that if what was done in this case had been done by one person only, his conduct would not have been actionable, and that the fact that what was done was effected by many acting in concert makes no difference. My Lords, one man without others behind him who would obey his orders could not have done what these defendants did. One man exercising the same control over others as these defendants had could have acted as they did, and, if he had done so, I conceive that he would...