Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...power should tax property out of its own territory and out of reach of its protection. Some property in this country is taxed both where it is and where its owner is. Again, it should be clearly understood that nothing is property which is not the embodiment of applied labor and which cannot be bought or sold. It is a notion in this country that legislation can make something out of nothing. Deeds represent a right to property but are not additional property. A good rule for legislators would be never to tax anything that could be of value...
...soul who does not appreciate that in this nineteenth century is the grandest opportunity for good deeds and reform. The thing for the man of leisure to learn to know is first, that leisure means work, and secondly, that he must have enthusiasm. He who does not have to labor for his daily bread ought to laber for mankind...
...Advocate of February 28 the sophomore board makes its bow to the college. The editorials are largely devoted to an outline of the course which the editors intend to pursue. "We apprecate our peculiar position," they say, "and the difficulties under which we must of necessity labor at the beginning. However, it shall be our earnest purpose to represent consistently and truthfully the liberal and progressive spirit of the college." The college will observe with interest the result of the experiment...
...other colleges, could not help proving strongly beneficial; third, the members should devote more personal attention to the study of the Bible; fourth, the fact should be gravely considered that a much smaller per cent. of men now devote themselves after graduation to work in God's field of labor than in the years gone...
Judge Smith then spoke of "Utopia," in which no lawyers were to live; of Bellamy who said in his "Looking Backwards" that in the 20th century no lawyers would live in Boston; of the Knights of Labor, by whose by-laws "liquor sellers, bankers, gamblers and lawyers" are barred from membership...