 | Thomas Hart Benton - United States - 1854 - 784 pages
...more effectual than that which deludes them with paper money. This is the most effectual of inventions to fertilize the rich man's field, by the sweat of the poor man's brow. Ordinary tyranny, oppression, excessive taxation, these bear lightly on the happiness of the mass of... | |
 | Robert Rantoul (Jr.) - History - 1854 - 890 pages
...persisted in,— the crime of cheating the laboring classes by the delusion of paper money,—fertilizing the rich man's field by the sweat of the poor man's brow. Who, then, are guilty of this heinous crime ; for the innocent must not share the shame ; who are the... | |
 | Commerce - 1857 - 808 pages
...more cdoctiial than that which deludes them with paper money. This is the most effectual of indentions to fertilize the rich man's field by the sweat of the poor man's brow. " Ordinary tyranny, oppression, excessive taxation — these bear lightly on the happiness of the mass... | |
 | Alfred J. Pairpoint - Canada - 1857 - 360 pages
...with paper-money,—the most effectual invention that could possibly have been devised for fertilizing the rich man's field by the sweat of the poor man's brow; and light, on the nation at large, would be the oppressions of despotic tyranny and excessive taxation... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1868 - 1082 pages
...productive labor," and with Daniel Webster, who said " that it is the most effectual of inventions to fertilize the rich man's field by the sweat of the poor man's brow." These are the principles I entertain, and they are the principles that will live. Yes, sir, when you... | |
 | Ludwig Karl Aegidi - 1868 - 944 pages
...more effectual than that which deludes them with paper money. This is the most effectual of inventions to fertilize the rich man's field by the sweat of the poor man's brow. Ordinary tyranny, oppression, and excessive taxation, these bear lightly on the happiness of the mass... | |
 | William B. Dana - Commerce - 1868 - 494 pages
...than that which deludes them with paper money This is the most effectual of inventions to fertilise the rich man's field by the sweat of the poor man's brow. Ordinary tyranny, oppression, and excessive taxation — these bear lightly on the happiness of the... | |
 | William Dealtry - Labor - 1869 - 460 pages
...that which deludes with paper money ! It is the most perfect expedient ever invented for fertilizing the rich man's field by the sweat of the poor man's brow." Thomas Jefferson, in a letter to J. Taylor, said : " The system of banking we have both equally and... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1873 - 774 pages
...for his motto the words of Daniel Webster: " Paper circulation is the most effectual of inventions to fertilize the rich man's field by the sweat of the poor man's brow." A hope is sometimes expressed that the settlement of the banking question in Germany may exercise a... | |
 | William Brown (of Montreal.) - 1872 - 260 pages
...which the world has ever seen — when he declared paper money to bo the most effectual of inventions to fertilize the rich man's field by the sweat of the poor man's brow.' The old Jewish goldsmiths, before the establishment of the Bank of England, used to lend out something... | |
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Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind none has been more effectual than that which deludes them with paper money. This is the most effectual of inventions to fertilize the rich man's field by the sweat of the poor man's... 
