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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... profit " to the owners of capital , without taking into account the necessity for a reason- able compensation for the industry and production of the toilers . Under this destructive policy - now an iron rule , those who can possess ...
... profit " to the owners of capital , without taking into account the necessity for a reason- able compensation for the industry and production of the toilers . Under this destructive policy - now an iron rule , those who can possess ...
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... profit by the war , while it is the plain , toiling people who are really supporting the entire system , including the payment of the profits to the big fellows . Here is an example , taken from page 12 of a pamphlet issued June 1 ...
... profit by the war , while it is the plain , toiling people who are really supporting the entire system , including the payment of the profits to the big fellows . Here is an example , taken from page 12 of a pamphlet issued June 1 ...
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... profits annually , he takes what many thousands of others have been excluded from , and the unfortunate thing of it is that he did not earn it , while they did . Oh no ! The evidence which the wealth grabbers offer THE EXPLOITERS 19.
... profits annually , he takes what many thousands of others have been excluded from , and the unfortunate thing of it is that he did not earn it , while they did . Oh no ! The evidence which the wealth grabbers offer THE EXPLOITERS 19.
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... " big financiers " expect to make very many billions of dollars profit . Therefore it is easy to see why J. P. Morgan , through his chief partner , H. S. You may be a farmer ; you may be a 24 WHY IS YOur Country at War ?
... " big financiers " expect to make very many billions of dollars profit . Therefore it is easy to see why J. P. Morgan , through his chief partner , H. S. You may be a farmer ; you may be a 24 WHY IS YOur Country at War ?
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... profit , " independent of the pay for the labor in pro- duction and distribution . This profit is largely ex- pended in riotous living and unnecessary building of some kind which we shall examine later . The nation is neither more nor ...
... profit , " independent of the pay for the labor in pro- duction and distribution . This profit is largely ex- pended in riotous living and unnecessary building of some kind which we shall examine later . The nation is neither more nor ...
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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