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The movement towards socialism is receiving an impulse from a new and unexpected quarter, there is now a rentier socialism, and it is interesting to note that while the London Times is full of schemes of great state enterprises, for the exploitation of Colonial state lands, for the state purchase and wholesaling of food and many natural products, and for the syndication of shipping and the great staple industries into vast trusts into which not only the British but the French and Italian governments may enter as partners, the so-called socialist press of Great Britain is chiefly busy about the draughts in the cell of Mr.
Will you condescend to borrow from me? I am in funds." Lemercier at that offer was nearly moved to tears. Famished though he was, he could not, however, have touched that girl's earnings. "You are an angel of goodness, Mademoiselle! Ah, how I envy Gustave Rameau! No, I don't want aid. I am always a rentier." "Bien! and if you see Gustave, you will not forget." "Rely on me.
This latter class was more difficult to define than the former because it is more various within itself. My French friends wanted to talk of the "Psychology of the Rentier." I was for such untranslatable phrases as the "Genteel Whig," or the "Donnish Liberal." But I lit up an Italian he is a Milanese manufacturer with "these Florentine English who would keep Italy in a glass case."
"So just a condition," said the merchant, raising his whisper so much that the rentier laid a hand in his elbow, "such mere justice," he said, more softly, "ought to be an easy condition. God knows" he lifted his glance reverently "my very right to exist comes after yours. You are the elder." The solemn man offered no disclaimer.
I will not over to guess here which will prevail. The impression I have of the present mental process in the European communities is that while the official class and the rentier class is thinking very poorly and inadequately and with a merely obstructive disposition; while the churches are merely wasting their energies in futile self-advertisement; while the labour mass is suspicious and disposed to make terms for itself rather than come into any large schemes of reconstruction that will abolish profit as a primary aim in economic life, there is still a very considerable movement towards such a reconstruction.
A had been in some business, I believe, but when I visited him he was living as a small rentier, in a pretty little house on the main road from Paris to Versailles. The mode of life and manners of these worthy people were not refined or elegant, but essentially hospitable and kind; and I enjoyed the sunny freedom of my holiday visits to them extremely.
The salary-earner and the rentier have borne the brunt, while the wage-earner and the profit-maker have been able to expand their earnings, in paper, at least to a point at which the depreciation of currency have left them no worse off.
For a man to be just of this sort, it seemed plain that he must live in an isolated ease upon the unceasing droppings of coupons, rents, and like receivables. Such was the immigrant's first conjecture; and, as with slow, scant questions and answers they made their bargain, every new glance strengthened it; he was evidently a rentier.
Macaulay on Depreciated Currency Its Evils To-day The Plight of the Rentier Mr Goodenough's Suggestion Sir Edward Holden's Criticisms of the Currency Committee His Scheme of Reform Two Departments or One in the Bank of England? Everyone has read, and most of us have forgotten, the great passage in Macaulay's history which describes the evils of a disordered currency.
As I entered the concierge met me with a note. I lost no time in keeping the appointment, and on meeting my friend, he whispered excitedly: "Suzor has a visitor. He arrived at the Ritz at six o'clock, and they have dined together. He is a well-dressed man of between forty and fifty, rather sallow-faced, and has given his name at the hotel as Henri Thibon, rentier, of Bordeaux."
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