We have been proud of our industrial achievements, but we have not hitherto stopped thoughtfully enough to count the human cost, the cost of lives snuffed out, of energies overtaxed and broken, the fearful physical and spiritual cost to the men and women... Papers and Proceedings - Page 156by American Library Association. Conference - 1911Full view - About this book
| Labor unions - 1913 - 830 pages
...worthless and impotent, scorning to be careful, shamefully prodigal as well as admirably efficient. We have been proud of our industrial achievements,...whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through. The groans and agony of it all had not yet reached our ears, the solemn... | |
| Protectionism - 1912 - 846 pages
...worthless and impotent, scorning to be careful, shamefully prodigal as well as admirably efficient. We have been proud of our industrial achievements,...whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through. The groans and agony of it all had not yet reached our ears, the solemn,... | |
| 1912 - 742 pages
...prodigal as well as admirably efficient. We haii been proud of our industrial achievements, bi-'we have not hitherto stopped thoughtfully enough to count...and broken, the fearful physical and spiritual cost 506 507 to the men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen... | |
| William Payne Shriver - Aliens - 1913 - 338 pages
...without deep searchings of heart. Thus President Wilson was moved, as he spoke in his inaugural address: "We have been proud of our industrial achievements,...whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through. The groans and agony of it all has not reached our ears, the solemn,... | |
| United States - 1913 - 142 pages
...worthless and impotent, scorning to be careful, shamefully prodigal as well as admirably efficient. We have been proud of our industrial achievements,...whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through. The groans and agony of it all had not yet reached our ears, the solemn,... | |
| Clark Mills Brink - Oratory - 1913 - 454 pages
...worthless and impotent, scorning to be careful, shamefully prodigal as well as admirably efficient. We have been proud of our industrial achievements,...whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through. The groans and agony of it all had not yet reached our ears, the solemn,... | |
| Edward Sandford Martin - Feminism - 1913 - 170 pages
...and effort of contemporary politics everywhere. One reads in President Wilson's inaugural address: "We have been proud of our industrial achievements,...children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all have fallen pitilessly the years through." It is to lighten and diffuse that dead weight and burden... | |
| Robert McLean Cumnock - Elocution - 1913 - 632 pages
...great part of what we might have used, and have not stopped to conserve the exceeding bounty of nature. We have been proud of our industrial achievements,...stopped thoughtfully enough to count the human cost. At last a vision has been vouchsafed us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good, the debased... | |
| William English Walling - Socialism - 1914 - 466 pages
...central and basic proposition is a statement of fact : "With riches has come inexcusable waste. . . . We have been proud of our industrial achievements,...whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through." This declaration marks a radical, even a revolutionary, advance, coming... | |
| Cornelia Carhart Ward - English language - 1914 - 448 pages
...worthless and impotent, scorning to be careful, shamefully prodigal as well as admirably efficient. We have been proud of our industrial achievements,...whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through. The groans and agony of it all had not yet reached our ears, the solemn,... | |
| |