 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - 1897 - 712 pages
...Field's opinion went further. He said: "The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. * * * Our political contests will become a war of the poor...war constantly growing in intensity and bitterness. * * * I am of opinion that the whole law of 1894 should be declared void and without any binding force."... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - 1897 - 732 pages
...opinion went further. He said: "The present assanlt upon capital is but the beginning. nnn Our jxilitical contests will become a war of the poor against the...war constantly growing in intensity and bitterness. nnn I am of opinion that the whole law of 1894 should bo declared void and without any binding force."... | |
 | 1898 - 942 pages
...gravity that go down to the very foundation of the Government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an act of Congress, where is the course...bitterness. ' If the court sanctions the power of discriminating taxation, and nullifies the uniformity mandate of the Constitution,' as said by one... | |
 | Winthrop More Daniels - 1899 - 408 pages
...capital," said Mr. Justice Field, " is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to other, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests...war constantly growing in intensity and bitterness." Whether the prophecy come true or not, it is at least open to question whether the decision, like the... | |
 | David Ames Wells - 1900 - 668 pages
...gravity that go down to the very foundation of the Government. If the provisions of the Constitution can be set aside by an act of Congress, where is the course...bitterness. ' If the court sanctions the power of discriminating taxation, and nullifies the uniformity mandate of the Constitution,' as said by one... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1901 - 748 pages
...157 US. 429. INCOME TAX CASES. 54:1 beginning, and that political contests in the United States would become a war of the poor against the rich, "a war constantly growing in intensity and bitterness." It was his opinion that the whole act should be declared void. Mr. Justice White, who sustained the... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - 1908 - 874 pages
...Field's opinion went further. He said: "The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. * * * Our political contests will become a war of the poor...war constantly growing in intensity and bitterness. *** I am of opinion that the whole law of 1894 should be declared void and without any binding force."... | |
 | United States. President - 1909 - 884 pages
...Field's opinion went further. He said: "The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. * * * Our political contests will become a war of the poor...war constantly growing in intensity and bitterness. * * * I am of opinion that the whole law of 1894 should be declared void and without any binding force."... | |
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The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich ; a war constantly growing in intensity and bitterness. 
