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The individual, of course, must be enlightened; and local labour unions, recognizing this, are spending considerable sums all over the country on schools to educate their members. If a workman is a profiteer, he is more to be excused than the business profiteer, against whom his anger is directed; if he is a spendthrift, prodigality is a natural consequence of rapid acquisition.
I cannot prophesy the immediate economic effect of this new war on our nation, but I do say that no American has the moral right to profiteer at the expense either of his fellow citizens or of the men, the women and the children who are living and dying in the midst of war in Europe. Some things we do know. Most of us in the United States believe in spiritual values.
Even to defraud the old crook I wouldn't let him have hide nor hair of a beef, not since he worked on my feelings in the matter of them bull calves two years ago. Mules, yes. But the cow is too worthy a beast to be mixed up in anything sinful I put over on that profiteer.
But don't you see any signs that lately maybe the same idea is striking lots of people in America?" "No, I do not!" said Mr. Welles emphatically. "With a profiteer on every corner! "But look-y-here, the howl about profiteers, isn't that something new? Isn't that a dumb sort of application to business of the doctor's standard of service?
Around him everywhere was the gay cosmopolitan world of the tables that giddy little after-the-war financier and profiteer world which amuses itself on the Côte d'Azur, and in which he was such a well-known figure.
It has gained ground everywhere. This does not mean that the mass of the employees upon daily papers understand what they are talking about when they use the word "profiteer," any more than they understand what they are talking about when they use the words "servile state."
Benton threw off his coat, and in an abrupt manner said to the servant: "I want to see Mrs. Bond at once." Then, turning to Louise, he exclaimed: "I want to see Molly privately. I have some urgent business to discuss with her before your profiteer friends arrive." "All right," replied the girl cheerily.
The profiteer, the true child of the "great days," will not perish from the land, on the contrary, he will grow tougher the more he is persecuted, he will be the rich man of the future, and he will form a constant political danger if he and his fellows combine.
'I know the value of my own timber a great deal better than he. They're not worth a third of what they put them at. 'Even at the Government price? Elizabeth ventured slyly. 'He'll be very glad to give it! 'Then it's blackmailing the country, said the Squire obstinately. 'I loathe the war, but I'm not a profiteer. Elizabeth was silent.
Folk must have them, or the country will gae to ruin. And it maun be made possible for people to bring up their weans wi'oot sae much trouble and difficulty as there is for them the noo. Profiteering we canna endure and will'na, I'm telling you. Let the profiteer talk o' vested richts and interests or whine o' them, since he whines mair than he talks.
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