 | Corodon S. Cannon - 1884 - 96 pages
...labor as that, nor is there any such free man being fixed for life in the condition of a hired laborer. Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital...labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of eapital, and deserves much the highest consideration. No men living are more to be trusted than those... | |
 | James Gillespie Blaine - 1884 - 702 pages
...that condition for life." From all these theories Mr. Lincoln radically dissented, and maintained that "labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." "No men living," said he, " are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty — none... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor, Henry William Blair - 1885 - 1216 pages
...drift of your observation. As our lamented martyr President, Lincoln, said in his second message, " Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital...labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of wealth, and deserves much higher consideration." By Mr. GEOKGE : Q. Suppose a man has a million dollars... | |
 | John Alexander Logan - 1886 - 912 pages
...of a hired laborer. Both these assumptions are false, and all inferences from them are groundless. " Labor is prior to, and independent of Capital. Capital...Capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights. Nor is it denied that... | |
 | Allen Thorndike Rice - 1886 - 804 pages
...right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms, by no means excluding females." In 1854, he said : " Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital...existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the support of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." In April of the same year, he said... | |
 | 1886 - 414 pages
...observer. Abraham Lincoln once said: ''Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is but the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed." But under present conditions, capital seems to feel an entire independence of labor, and to demand... | |
 | Symmes M. Jelley - 1887 - 390 pages
...poor, debasing manhood, forcing them into vice and crime? President Lincoln said in his second message: "Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital...labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior and deserves much higher consideration." Webster said in his speech in 1837: "The interest of this... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - 1887 - 252 pages
...the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms, by no means excluding females." In 1854, he said: "Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital...existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the support of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration." In April of the same year, he said... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1887 - 438 pages
...false, and all inferonces frwm them are ground leas. Labor is prior to and independent of cipital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never...first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserve- much the higher >• t>eideration. Cunitrtl hat its right», which are a» worthy of protection... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1887 - 476 pages
...are false, and all inferences frem them are groundless. Labor is prior to and independent of ciuital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not not existed. Labor ia the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital... | |
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. 
