The Monarch BillionaireJ.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 1903 - 317 стор. |
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Adam Smith Amalgamated Bernfield brains Cæsar called capital capitalist cent Central Trust Company citizens commercial Delegating politics dividends dollars duction earn economic employers equality everything faculties father feel force Giles Wyndon give groups happiness heir presumptive higher Horace Gray human hundred ical ideas income individual industrial inequality intelligence king labor leaders learned living look man's mankind Margaret masses masters material ment millions mind moral nature ness never Old Giles organization owners ownership partnerships person Philip Burson Plutocracy political poor Potter Burson principle professor profit rest rich robbed selfish sense ship slavery slaves social society soul starve Steel Haven strength strike things thought thousand tion toil town trade union trust unearned union vidual vote wages wealth whole workers workingmen young
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Сторінка 261 - A man who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents on whom he has a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion of food, and, in fact, has no business to be where he is.
Сторінка 260 - Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none .at alL...
Сторінка 264 - No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged.
Сторінка 152 - It is the purpose of this work to show that the distribution of the income of society is controlled by a natural law, and that this law, if it worked, without friction, would give to every agent of production the amount of wealth which that agent creates.
Сторінка 265 - The notion was that, though the physical person of the deceased had perished, his legal personality survived and descended unimpaired on his Heir or Co-heirs, in whom his identity (so far as the law was concerned) was continued.
Сторінка 273 - ... was boodling, which is a more refined and a more dangerous form of corruption than the police blackmail of Minneapolis. It involves, not thieves, gamblers, and common women, but influential citizens, capitalists, and great corporations. For the stock-in-trade of the boodler is the rights, privileges, franchises, and real property of the city, and his source of corruption is the top, not the bottom, of society.
Сторінка 260 - In other countries, rent and profit eat up wages, and the two superior orders of people oppress the inferior one. But in new colonies the interest of the two superior orders obliges them to treat the inferior one with more generosity and humanity; at least where that inferior one is not in a state of slavery.
Сторінка 222 - He said there was no hope for us at all. He remarked this— I cannot give the exact quotation— 'There is no hope for us...
Сторінка 221 - J.HE purpose of this paper is to determine whether the pre-dissolution Standard Oil Company actually used predatory price cutting to achieve or maintain its monopoly. This issue is of much more than antiquarian or theoretic interest. Settling it is of direct importance...
Сторінка 265 - Testamentary gifts, which modern practitioners apply without discerning their relation to the parent theory. But, in the pure Roman jurisprudence, the principle that a man lives on in his Heir — the elimination, if we may so speak, of the fact of death — is too obviously for mistake the centre round which the whole Law of Testamentary and Intestate succession is circling.