Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...This spirit has also manifested itself by a constant disregard of the fundamental legal rights of freedom of contracts and of personal security. Any supposed good accomplished by trade unionism cannot for a moment outweigh the evils resulting from the subversion of these basal rights...
...conclusion it was shown that the chief significance of this argument is not so much the evidence of disregard for the interests of individuals as the evidence of the existence within our country of an organization which manifests a spirit which seeks to make its rights paramount to the rights of all other parties. Any organization manifesting such a spirit cannot show a tendency other than detrimental to the best interests of our country...
...Beede made the third and last main speech for Yale. He dealt with that spirit of unionism which disregards the rights of the general public. It is, he said, a fundamental principle that individuals or institutions shall always be governed in pursuit of their own ends by a strict observance of public rights. Trade-unionism has continually shown a tendency to repudiate this principle. It is essential that the public, as a third party, shall never be made unreasonably to suffer for a grievance between two other parties. Yet unions, for the past twenty years, in the zealous pursuit...
...failed to receive the support of eighty-five per cent of the American wage-earners, is strong proof of our contention,--namely, that trade-unionism for the past twenty years has pursued unwise methods, has violated rights fundamental to our whole social structure, has fostered a spirit of selfish tyranny, has sought to dominate the industrial world, and has placed its own interests before those of the whole country...
...best interests of the United States are, he said, the creation of a spirit of mutual precaution, the establishment of a true province of labor, and a true province of capital. This end it has been the general tendency of trade unionism to sub-serve--by creating trade agreements, and by calling the attention of the public to the significance of the problem. The history of trade unionism cannot be discussed upon any narrower ground than this. If the negative have shown that despite the evils which have attended the history of trade unionism, unionism has shown a tendency...