 | 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,...men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through. The groans and agony of it all had not... | |
 | 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,...men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through. The groans and agony of it all had not... | |
 | American Library Association. Conference - Library science - 1911 - 930 pages
...individuality. In his inaugural address President Wilson uttered these accusing heart searching words: "We have been proud of our Industrial achievements,...and women and 'children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen without mercy the years through. The groans and agony of It all, the... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,...men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through. The groans and agony of it all had not... | |
 | William Payne Shriver - Christian sociology - 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,...men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through. The groans and agony of it all has not... | |
 | 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,...men and women and 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... | |
 | 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,...men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen pitilessly the years through. The groans and agony of it all had not... | |
 | American Library Association. General Meeting - Library science - 1913 - 356 pages
...individuality. in his inaugural address President Wilson uttered these accusing heart searching words: "We have been proud of our industrial achievements,...men and women and children upon whom the dead weight and burden of it all has fallen without mercy the years through. The groans and agony of it all, the... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
