Why is Your Country at War and what Happens to You After the War, and Related SubjectsNational Capital Press, Incorporated, 1917 - 220 páginas |
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... interests have experts to draft their plans . Did we not see how quickly they took hold of the war , at the time it started in Europe and again when we declared war ? They are always ready , because they get the earnings from our toil ...
... interests have experts to draft their plans . Did we not see how quickly they took hold of the war , at the time it started in Europe and again when we declared war ? They are always ready , because they get the earnings from our toil ...
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... interest . Yes , these men are patriotic ( ? ) . They subscribe liberally to everything that helps them , and then charge the people for what they subscribe . The plain people who get no benefit by way of profit out of the war are the ...
... interest . Yes , these men are patriotic ( ? ) . They subscribe liberally to everything that helps them , and then charge the people for what they subscribe . The plain people who get no benefit by way of profit out of the war are the ...
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... interest is -what's in us , for there is much that is the same in Davidson , is fitting up offices to be donated to the Red Cross for headquarters . It will not interfere with the good work of the Red Cross on the battlefield . It can ...
... interest is -what's in us , for there is much that is the same in Davidson , is fitting up offices to be donated to the Red Cross for headquarters . It will not interfere with the good work of the Red Cross on the battlefield . It can ...
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... interest debts are destructive to civilization . You Pay as You Go or Never " " To the intelligent reader , it is easily understood that everything produced in any given generation is paid for in the generation of the then living ...
... interest debts are destructive to civilization . You Pay as You Go or Never " " To the intelligent reader , it is easily understood that everything produced in any given generation is paid for in the generation of the then living ...
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... ( interest , dividends or profits ) that never has been and never can be earned , but is simply extortion . That kind of a debt can be and has been heaped increasingly upon the people of each succeeding generation . It was heaped upon us ...
... ( interest , dividends or profits ) that never has been and never can be earned , but is simply extortion . That kind of a debt can be and has been heaped increasingly upon the people of each succeeding generation . It was heaped upon us ...
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Página 57 - WHERE the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out from the depth of truth; Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection; Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action — Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let...
Página 83 - All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
Página 59 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Página 57 - BE NOBLE ! and the nobleness that lies In other men, sleeping, but never dead, Will rise in majesty to meet thine own...
Página 82 - I see, in the near future, a crisis approaching that unnerves me, and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavour to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people, until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands, and the Republic is destroyed.
Página 83 - I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
Página 99 - ... to an island deserted by all but a few servants, living there a full week under such rigid secrecy that the name of not one of them was once mentioned lest the servitors learn their identity and disclose to the world this strangest, most secret episode in the history of American finance.
Página 197 - Undoubtedly wages have advanced sharply since the war began, yet the average wage increase since 1912 has been small, even in union labor, when compared with the rise In the prices in necessaries of life. The index figures published in the April "Review" of the United States Bureau of Labor statistics show that in the large field of union labor there has been a rise of only nine points from 1912 to 1916, Inclusive. Index figures for 1917 are not yet available; but, even if we were to assume that...
Página 84 - Slavery is likely to be abolished by the war power, and chattel slavery destroyed. This, I and my European friends are in favor of ; for slavery is but the owning of labor, and carries with it the care of the laborer ; while the European plan, led on by England, is capital control of labor by controlling wages.
Página 25 - It has indeed been humiliating to the American people to see how the wealth grabbers, owners of the "big press," actually attempt by scurrilous editorials and specially prepared articles, to drive the people as if we were a lot of cattle, to buy bonds, subscribe to the Red Cross, to register for conscription and all the other things. The people will do their duty without being hectored in advance by the "big interest