| Henry Steele Commager - History - 1950 - 504 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...of mankind; and the possessors of these, in turn, despize the Republic and endanger liberty. From the same prolific womb of governmental injustice we... | |
| Lawrence Goodwyn - History - 1978 - 384 pages
...unrecognized by our laws, is established to shoot them down, and thev are rapidK disintegrating to European conditions. The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger... | |
| Richard Carter - Social Science - 1992 - 356 pages
...the verge of moral, political and material ruin," screamed a Populist gadfly named Ignatius Donnelly. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few. . . . From the same prolific womb ... we breed the two great classes— tramps and millionaires." The... | |
| Russell L. Ensign, Louis Patsouras - Political Science - 1993 - 252 pages
.... .“ (236). box, the legislatures, the Congress, and even touches the ermine of the bench. . . . The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few. . . and the possessors of these, in turn, despise the republic and endanger liberty. (Qtd. in Nevins... | |
| Robert Carroll McMath (Jr.), Robert C. McMath, Jr. - History - 1993 - 258 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, unprecedented in the history of the world, while their possessors despise the republic and endanger... | |
| Carol Nackenoff - History - 1994 - 377 pages
...brought into confrontation. Others thought that precisely this conflict was tearing the Republic asunder: The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen...womb of governmental injustice we breed the two great classes—tramps and millionaires. 89 In the story of Tony, the Tramp, known in book form as Tony,... | |
| Robert W. Cherny - History - 1994 - 244 pages
...an outburst so great that one reporter compared it to French revolutionaries storming the Bastille. "The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few," the Omaha platform declared. It then demanded that "the powers of the government — in other words,... | |
| William M. Wiecek - Law - 1998 - 296 pages
...wages, a hireling standing army, unrecognized by our laws, is established to shoot them down. . . . The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few . . . and the possessors of these, in turn, despise the Republic and endanger liberty.... [Republicans... | |
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