 | William Graham Sumner - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 416 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... | |
 | william g. summer - 1874 - 416 pages
...more effectual than that which deludes them witn 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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1874 - 822 pages
...for his motto the words of Daniel Webster: " Paper circulation is the most eo'ectual 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 (rcrmany may exercise... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Liberalism (Religion) - 1875 - 842 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... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...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... | |
 | James Quay Howard - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 278 pages
...currency which has been well described as the most effective invention that ever the wit of man devised to fertilize the rich man's field by the sweat of the poor man's brow. I will have nothing to do with it." How great the shock which was given to returning confidence by... | |
 | Russell H. Conwell - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 340 pages
...currency which has been well described as the most effective invention that ever the wit of man devised to fertilize the rich man's field by the sweat of the poor man's brow. I will have nothing to do with it.' " How great the shock which was given to returning confidence by... | |
 | Wilhelm Roscher, Louis Wolowski, John Joseph Lalor - Economics - 1878 - 520 pages
...GallattH, see Wolowski, Enquete, 170, seq. Webster called paper money " the most effectual of inventions to fertilize the rich man's field by the sweat of the poor man's brow." Tout papier monnaic par lui jncmc esl tin mcnsiinatrc. (3f. Chevalier^ Cours, III, 4-8.) M. Nicbuhr... | |
 | William Augustus Berkey - Greenbacks - 1878 - 616 pages
...in the monetary system of the country — that there is some constantly operating cause, which tends "to fertilize the rich man's field by the sweat of the poor man's brow." The masses toil, day after day and year after year, seeking to secure a competency and scarcely succeed... | |
 | William Graham Sumner - Currency question - 1878 - 414 pages
...more effectual than that which deludes them witn 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... | |
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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... 
