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... competition , is fundamentally wrong . Competition is of the nature of war- fare in warfare the victory is with the strong- est ; capital is stronger than labor , and , CHRISTIANITY AND WEALTH . 31.
... competition , is fundamentally wrong . Competition is of the nature of war- fare in warfare the victory is with the strong- est ; capital is stronger than labor , and , CHRISTIANITY AND WEALTH . 31.
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... competition , labor always goes to the wall . The workman who must have wages or starve is in no condition to try conclusions with the corporation . The historical fact is that strikes are almost always unsuccessful . All the economic ...
... competition , labor always goes to the wall . The workman who must have wages or starve is in no condition to try conclusions with the corporation . The historical fact is that strikes are almost always unsuccessful . All the economic ...
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... competition as the guide of their conduct , bidding each party to get as much as it can out of the other , and to give as little as it can , for that is precisely what competition means , is simply to declare war - a war in which the ...
... competition as the guide of their conduct , bidding each party to get as much as it can out of the other , and to give as little as it can , for that is precisely what competition means , is simply to declare war - a war in which the ...
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... competition ; equity demands , there- fore , that some modification of the wage - system be made in the interest of the laborer . If it is made , the employer must make it . Saint Paul's doctrine is that " the husbandman that laboreth ...
... competition ; equity demands , there- fore , that some modification of the wage - system be made in the interest of the laborer . If it is made , the employer must make it . Saint Paul's doctrine is that " the husbandman that laboreth ...
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... competition in labor . If the unions become well organized , they may fluctu- ate about the equitable point ; but peace and har- mony between employers and employed there will never be . The only true rule for wages is that they ...
... competition in labor . If the unions become well organized , they may fluctu- ate about the equitable point ; but peace and har- mony between employers and employed there will never be . The only true rule for wages is that they ...
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Page 70 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Page 315 - ... their country, humanity and universal benevolence, sobriety, industry, and frugality, chastity, moderation, and temperance, and those other virtues, which are the ornament of human society, and the basis upon which...
Page 11 - And, uupleasant as it may be to admit it, it is at last becoming evident that the enormous increase in productive power which has marked the present century and is still going on with accelerating ratio, has no tendency to extirpate poverty or to lighten the burdens of those compelled to toil.
Page 41 - It predicts only such of the phenomena of the social state as take place in consequence of the pursuit of wealth. It makes entire abstraction of every other human passion or motive ; except those which may be regarded as perpetually antagonizing principles to the desire of wealth ; namely, aversion to labour, and desire of the present enjoyment of costly indulgences.
Page 31 - ... is confined within narrow barriers which cannot be passed, and the problem of their elevation is hopeless. As a body they will not rise at all. A few, more energetic or more fortunate than the rest, will from time to time escape, as they do now, from the ranks of their fellows to the higher walks of industrial life, but the great majority will remain substantially where they are. The remuneration of labor as such, skilled or unskilled can never rise much above its present...
Page 315 - It shall be the duty of the president, professors, and tutors of the University at Cambridge, and of the several colleges, and of all preceptors and teachers of academies, and all other instructors of youth, to exert their best endeavors to impress on the minds of children and youth committed to their care and instruction the principles of piety, justice, and a sacred regard to truth, love to their country, humanity and universal benevolence, sobriety, industry and frugality, chastity, moderation...