 What is a Communist ? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing To fork out his penny and pocket your shilling.  Report - Page 72by Iowa. Bureau of Labor - 1897Full view - About this book
 | Electronic journals - 1920 - 666 pages
...B. AUTHORS OF Q COTATIONS WANTED. — (12 S. vu. 251.) 1. The correct quotation is : — What is ft Communist ? One who hath yearnings For equal division...bungler, or both, he is willing To fork out his penny nnd pocket your shilling. It comes from Ebenezer Elliott's ' Corn-Law Rhymes ' (18',H). CINQVOYS. 4.... | |
 | 1850 - 156 pages
...— is, in its indiscriminating spirit, an illustration of these remarks. It runs thus : — What is a communist ? One who hath yearnings For equal division...willing To fork out his penny, and pocket your shilling. When Mr. Cobden, a statesman with the advantage of having travelled through every capital of Europe,... | |
 | Ebenezer Elliott - Political poetry, English - 1850 - 284 pages
...than nought: The lands which can be freely sold Are worth a world of barren gold.* EPIGRAM. What is a communist ? One who hath yearnings For equal division...To fork out his penny, and pocket your shilling,* SONNET. No proud man's scorn can Bloomfield's fame destroy, Though lords may still his origin deride... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Industries - 1852 - 236 pages
...gives ;" And never was the character of Communism put into a more compendious argument : — " What is a Communist ? one who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings ; Idler or bungler he's one who is willing To fork out his penny and pocket your shilling !" And the following Communist's... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1897 - 346 pages
...be. You may remember the sarcastic lines of Ebenezer Elliott, the " Corn Law Rhymer " : — What is a communist ? One who hath yearnings For equal division...willing To fork out his penny and pocket your shilling. Those lines represent very fairly the opinion of a class of persons now fortunately becoming extinct.... | |
 | John Booth - Epigrams - 1865 - 400 pages
...acknowledge — namely, gold. For Traded Unionists. What is a Unionist ? one who has yearnings For an equal division of unequal earnings ; Idler or bungler...willing To fork out his penny and pocket your shilling. Eb. Elliot, the Corn-Larv Rhymer. . On Twining, the Teaman. It seems as if Nature had curiously plann'd... | |
 | Epigrams - 1865 - 398 pages
...acknowledge — namely, gold. For Traded Unionists. What is a Unionist ? one who has yearnings For an equal division of unequal earnings ; Idler or bungler...willing To fork out his penny and pocket your shilling. Eb. Elliot, tke Corn-Law Rhymer. On Twining, the Teaman. It seems as if Nature had curiously plann'd... | |
 | Isaac Jack Reeve - 1866 - 332 pages
...in your coaches !" W. TAYLOE. ON TRADES' UNIONS. WHAT ia a Unionist ? One who has yearnings For an equal division of unequal earnings ; Idler or bungler,...willing To fork out his penny and pocket your shilling. THE GAMING-HOUSE. To this dark cave three gates pertain — Hope, infamy, and death, we know : 'Tis... | |
 | Henry Crabb Robinson - Authors - 1869 - 574 pages
...is a communist 1 — One who has yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, he is willing to fork out his penny and pocket your shilling. He who is not satisfied with this will not be satisfied with any elaborate reasoning qn, the subject.... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1870 - 552 pages
...of Communism put into more compendious argument : — COMMUNISM— ILLUSTRATIVE VERSES. 129 What is a Communist ? one who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings ; Idler or bungler, he's one who is willing To fork out his penny and pocket your shilling ! And the following Communist's... | |
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