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...demand for the eight-hour day" says Taussig in his "Principles of Economics", is entitled to all sympathy and support", and the modern laborer is quite as adapted to his day and generation. He is no less to be respected because he does not, as did his forefathers, toil "from...
...must decide what to do. We might listen to him. But alas! He has not tongue of his own; only a few words and phrases which he has picked up through contact with his betters. Addison may pass disguised as a horney handed son of toil but a coal-heavier cannot hide himself under all the wigs and satin breaches in the world. There, then stands our literacy he be; with the shirt of prince and the overalls of mechanic; with the vocabulary of scholar and the ideas of a peasant...
...invention of the devil, can hasten the day, and such propaganda is best produced by the formation of aero clubs and aero societies with attendant activities, until the passage of a machine overhead is so usual as not to cause even the field laborer to look up from his toil. "Per ardua adastra...
...Splendid, glorious," exclaimed Adolphus, almost upsetting his tea in his excitement. "I'm so relieved for the little toil-is that in a Boston paper...
...intimidate and cast fear into the heart of the people; the workers are afraid to refuse wealth to these men; the rest are the workers, the producers. The first, simply, is that group of folk who live on unearned increment; the second, the great majority from whose extra toil comes the unearned increment in question. Mr. Carver is right. We must do away with the psychology of fear. We must work towards peace and co-operation. We must free the minds of the people so that they will not be afraid to refuse wealth to these men. And perhaps when...