 | Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - United States - 1921 - 716 pages
...; our homes covered with mortgages ; and the land concentrating in the hands of capitalists. . . . The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few." Having delivered this sweeping indictment, the Populists put forward their remedies : the free coinage... | |
 | Frederic Logan Paxson - United States - 1921 - 636 pages
...down their wages; a hireling standing army, unrecognized by our laws, is established to shoot them down, and they are rapidly degenerating into European...conditions. The fruits of, the toil of millions are boldlystolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few, unprecedented in the history of mankind ; and... | |
 | Ray Burdick Smith - New York (State) - 1922 - 636 pages
...down their wages, a hireling standing army, unrecognized by our laws, is established to shoot them down, and they are rapidly degenerating into European...conditions. The fruits of the toil of millions are bodily stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few, unprecedented in the history of mankind ; and... | |
 | Social sciences - 1922 - 518 pages
...is established to shoot them down, and *JT $iey are rapidly degenerating into European conditions.1 The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal ^ f fortunes for a few, unprecedented in the history of mankind ; £ and the possessors of these, in... | |
 | James Albert Woodburn - Political parties - 1924 - 578 pages
...covered with mortgages, labor impoverished, and the land concentrating in the hands of capitalists. The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen...the history of mankind ; and the possessors of these despise the republic and endanger liberty. From the same prolific womb of governmental injustice we... | |
 | Harold Underwood Faulkner - United States - 1924 - 752 pages
...people and are the abject tools of corporate monopolies." * The Populist platform of 1892 declared that "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up the colossal fortunes of a few, unprecedented in the history of mankind; and the possessors of these... | |
 | Robert Granville Caldwell - United States - 1927 - 606 pages
...covered with mortgages; labor impoverished; and the land concentrated in the hands of capitalists. . . . The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few. . . . From the same prolific womb of governmental injustice, we breed the two great classes of tramps... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - United States - 1927 - 848 pages
...with mortgages, that the press was the tool of wealth, that corruption dominated the ballot box, "that the fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen...in turn despise the republic and endanger liberty." It seemed that a trial at politics was impending between the party of high noon and a host of doubters.... | |
 | Edward McChesney Sait - Elections - 1927 - 636 pages
...of 1892. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for the few, unprecedented in the history of mankind; and...liberty. From the same prolific womb of governmental in1' 'The Prairie Octopus," Motion, Vol. CXIV (1922), p. 393. 1 The membership had dropped to about... | |
 | William Elsey Connelley - Kansas - 1928 - 682 pages
...right of organization for self -protection; a hireling standing army is established to shoot them down. The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up the colossal fortunes of a few, unprecedented in the history of mankind. The national power to create... | |
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The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few, unprecedented in the history of mankind; and the possessors of these, in turn, despise the republic and endanger liberty. 
