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It is much to be regretted that in English we have no clear corresponding word. The word "capitalist" is not uncommonly employed to do duty in this connection, but this is a source of much confusion. For the word is also used, and more appropriately, to include all investors, whether or not they are active business men. Risk-taking and Control. But there is an allied confusion of more importance.
He called me a lot in German, but I know cuss words when I hear them. I tried to reason with him told him I wanted my money was here to help him get that money off the farm, some way or other. An' he swore I was a capitalist an enemy to labor an' the Northwest that I an' my kind had caused the war." Kurt gazed gravely into the disturbed face of the rancher.
"I have brought you the notes, ma'am," says Barnes, taking a packet of those documents from his pocket-book. "I could not come sooner, I have been engaged upon bank business until now." "I dare say! You smell of smoke like a courier." "A foreign capitalist: he would smoke. They will, ma'am. I didn't smoke, upon my word." "I don't see why you shouldn't, if you like it.
But it is not true that capital and money are the same thing. Before the discovery of the precious metals, there were capitalists in the world; and I venture to say that at that time, as now, everybody was a capitalist, to a certain extent. What is capital, then? It is composed of three things: 1st.
It thus appears that the more inefficient the labourer is, the better for himself, his fellow-handicraftsmen, and for "labour" in general: the more money is drawn from the capitalist. There is a grain of truth in this view with respect to petty unavoidable repairs in a narrow locality: but the capital spent on such is as a drop in the ocean compared with that embarked in a single large work.
"Thank you," said Bradford, nodding, and with a quick, simultaneous pressure of hands, the two men parted. Bradford has often since felt grateful to the Judge for that five years' sentence, but never has he forgotten the happy thought that prompted the capitalist to give him this last hour, in which to get into a fresh suit and have his beard trimmed.
But their tyranny will not last forever, for it generates the forces that must in the end overthrow it. The Law of the Concentration of Capital. Marx pointed out that capitalist undertakings tend to grow larger and larger.
There was a small motor-boat owned by the lighthouse-keeper, and the party borrowed this, reaching the Golden Falcon without further misadventure, the capitalist recompensing the cowardly negro for the loss of his boat. Owing to the thorough work that had been done at Bermuda, and having the assistance of his capitalist friend, Mr.
"It is their grand final move before bringing out Ferris as the new-made capitalist. My life would not be worth a pin-head. And Witherspoon would be far away out of reach. Irma lost to me forever!" The jealous lover could almost see the crowded opera-house and hear that now familiar witching voice.
"Does Foker ever think?" drawled out Mr. Poyntz. "Foker, here is a considerable sum of money offered by a fair capitalist at this end of the table for the present emanations of your valuable and acute intellect, old boy!" "What the deuce is that Poyntz a talking about?" Mrs. Calverley asked of her neighbor. "I hate him. He's a drawlin', sneerin' beast."
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