In the Clutch of Circumstance: My Own Story, by a BurglarD. Appleton, 1922 - 269 էջ |
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Էջ 253 - You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
Էջ 166 - There is nothing but plated ware in this house now and henceforth. You will find it in that brass thing in the dining-room over in the corner by the basket of kittens. If you want the basket put the kittens in the brass thing.
Էջ 241 - I know nothing that could, in this view, be said better, than " do unto others as ye would that others should do unto you...
Էջ 193 - ... that would enable them to work into some better self. We have maintained that those in prison should work and should be paid for that work, that they should be given every freedom compatible with the purpose for which they are made to live apart, and meanwhile should be safeguarded from exploitation. It is most obviously untrue to state that organized labor desires that "many thousands of able-bodied men ought to be supported in prison in idleness, instead of laboring to increase the number of...
Էջ 247 - ... their sleep-walking they dream is highest. Wake them and they shall quit the false good and leap to the true, and leave governments to clerks and desks. This revolution is to be wrought by the gradual domestication of the idea of Culture. The main enterprise of the world for splendor, for extent, is the upbuilding of a man.
Էջ 193 - ... idleness, instead of laboring to increase the number of commodities furnished to the community." We wish the men under prison sentence to be employed in such a way that they shall be benefited and not harmed, and so that the products of their labor can not constitute a menace to free labor. We workingmen have constantly preached the gospel of labor. We believe in labor. But we believe in labor that uplifts and ennobles the worker, labor in which he can participate, conscious that thereby he is...
Էջ 192 - ... manufacturers who employ free labor are hopelessly unable to compete. Free workers are thrown out of employment. They and their families suffer hunger and all manner of privation because of the contract labor system. Free competition of convict-made goods with the products of free labor does not increase the number of commodities furnished to the community, because, protected and favored by special conditions and privileges, it has forced fair firms out of fields of production. We workers have...
Էջ 166 - You will find it in that brass thing in the dining room, over in the corner by the basket of kittens. If you want the basket, put the kittens in the brass thing. Do not make a noise; it disturbs the family. You will find rubbers in the front hall by that thing which has the umbrellas in it — chiffonier, I think they call it, or pergola, or something like that. Please close the door when you go away.