 | Criticism - 1849 - 660 pages
...rights of labor. See how transparently it is enclosed in the very first sentences of Mr. Kellogg's preface. " The laboring classes of all civilized nations...something intervened to prevent this natural result." It does not seem to occur to Mr. K., that the reason why " the laboring classes" — that is the classes... | |
 | Commerce - 1848 - 694 pages
...Dear Sir : Although it is universally admitted that nearly all wealth is the product of labor, yet the laboring classes of all civilized nations have been, and are, as a body, poor. If the natural product of labor be wealth, the natural result of toil would be competence or wealth... | |
 | Edward Kellogg - Currency question - 1874 - 432 pages
...the world. My book will show what my character was." MKP ELIZABETH, NJ, December, 1874. PEEFACE. TBS laboring classes of all civilized nations have been,...labor is greater than in most others, some cause is operatrng with continual and growing effect to separate production from the producer. The wrong is... | |
 | Nelson A. Dunning - Money - 1887 - 290 pages
...monetary discussions of the last twenty-five years." CHAPTER III. PRICE AND ITS RELATION TO BUSINESS. The laboring classes of all civilized nations have been, and are, as a body, poor. All wealth being the production of labor, therefore, laborers could have possessed it, had not something... | |
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... product of former labor, assumes that in present production capital is nothing and labor everything. Yet this remarkable delusion lies at the foundation of many a well meant disquisition about the rights of labor. See how transparently it is enclosed... 