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... labour - the only commodity pear in it . which they have to sell . Even if the results of such a system were for a time apparently good , we should equally denounce it ; but like every unjust act , Protection is working its own ruin . A ...
... labour - the only commodity pear in it . which they have to sell . Even if the results of such a system were for a time apparently good , we should equally denounce it ; but like every unjust act , Protection is working its own ruin . A ...
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... labour of himself and his children , or whether the fruits of their labour is squandered ( enjoyed it cannot be ) by a few of their fellow - Australians . What does matter to them , what is of the utmost importance to them , is the fact ...
... labour of himself and his children , or whether the fruits of their labour is squandered ( enjoyed it cannot be ) by a few of their fellow - Australians . What does matter to them , what is of the utmost importance to them , is the fact ...
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... labour , and con- sequently the production of wealth within the community , are largely determined by the incidence of taxa- tion . Any form of taxation must therefore be judged , not solely , but largely , with regard to its tendency ...
... labour , and con- sequently the production of wealth within the community , are largely determined by the incidence of taxa- tion . Any form of taxation must therefore be judged , not solely , but largely , with regard to its tendency ...
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... Labour Day . More than 5000 as- sembled on the banks of the Yarra to listen to the speeches delivered by delegates from the Knights of Labour , the Democratic Club , the Single Tax League , and the unemployed . The delegate of the ...
... Labour Day . More than 5000 as- sembled on the banks of the Yarra to listen to the speeches delivered by delegates from the Knights of Labour , the Democratic Club , the Single Tax League , and the unemployed . The delegate of the ...
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... Labour vote . Even where de- as towards others , we have rarely met . There feated the Labour candidates polled large were in him great capabilities of develop . minorities , and the 3 members represent- ment , now , alas , cut short by ...
... Labour vote . Even where de- as towards others , we have rarely met . There feated the Labour candidates polled large were in him great capabilities of develop . minorities , and the 3 members represent- ment , now , alas , cut short by ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
acre advocates amount annum Australia banks Beacon Benalla benefit capital cause cent Church classes COLLINS Collins-street colony condition cost duty Echuca electors England equal existing fact farm farmers favour Free Trade Free Trade party freights George Dibbs give Government hands improvements income increase industry interest JAMES SERVICE labour land monopoly Land Value Taxation land values landowners living Mallee manufacturers matter Max Hirsch Max Hirsch lectured meeting Melbourne ment moral owners ownership paid paper Parliament PHOENIX present production proposed Protection Protectionist question railway reason reduced reform rent result revenue Sac Suit Single Tax League Single Taxers Sir Graham Berry social South Melbourne South Wales street tariff tax on land things tion TOBACCO town Trenwith unimproved value value of land Victoria vote wages wealth Wimmera workers Yarrawonga
Passagens conhecidas
Página 26 - God, Give Us Men! God, give us men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not lie; Men who can stand before a demagogue And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking! Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog In public duty and in private thinking...
Página 87 - And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
Página 57 - Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth...
Página 52 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing ; Uphold us — cherish — and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal silence...
Página 56 - To abolish a status, which in all ages GOD has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated. To abolish that trade would be to — shut the gates...
Página 166 - If the bulk of the human race are always to remain as at present, slaves to toil in which they have no interest, and therefore feel no interest — drudging from early morning till late at night for bare necessaries, and with all the intellectual and moral deficiencies which that implies — without resources either in mind or...
Página 12 - Well, then, for Christ," thou answerest, "who can care? From sin, which Heaven records not, why forbear? Live we like brutes our life without a plan!" So answerest thou; but why not rather say: "Hath man no second life? — Pitch this one high! Sits there no judge in Heaven, our sin to see? — More strictly, then, the inward judge obey! Was Christ a man like us? — Ah! let us try If we then, too, can be such men as he!
Página 35 - Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right.
Página 53 - England is certainly, in the present times, a much richer country than any part of North America. The wages of labour, however, are much higher in North America than in any part of England.
Página 79 - ... cannot, like Newton, weigh the far-off stars in a balance, and measure the heavings of the eternal flood ; we cannot, like Voltaire, scorch up what is cruel and false by a word as a flame ; nor, like Milton or Burke, awaken men's hearts with the note of an organ-trumpet ; we cannot, like the great saints of the churches and the great sages of the schools, add to those acquisitions of spiritual beauty and intellectual mastery which have, one by one, and little by little, raised man from being...