To lay with one hand the power of the Government on the property of the citizen and with the other to bestow It upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms... Commentaries on the Law of Private Corporations - Seite 868von Seymour Dwight Thompson - 1895 - 8032 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1892 - 710 Seiten
...that can be produced, and at fair prices. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. ment on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it upon favored individuals, to aid private enterprise, and to build up private fortunes, is none the less robbery because it is done under the... | |
| 1875 - 438 Seiten
...may be exercised. To lay with one hand the power of the government on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it upon favored individuals...private enterprises and build up private fortunes, la none the less a robbery because It is done under the forms of law and is called taxation. This ls... | |
| 1890 - 980 Seiten
...bounty is to be " bestowed upon private individuals to aid private enterprises becomes none the less robbery because it is done under the forms of law, and is called taxation." This proposition brings the effect of this theory of protection directly into view; one may well ask why... | |
| Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1873 - 860 Seiten
...Miller declared that "To lay with one hand the power of the Government on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it upon favored individuals...enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called Taxation." Albert Gallatin declared... | |
| 1875 - 788 Seiten
...may be exercised. To lay with one hand the power of the government on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it upon favored individuals...legislation. It is a decree under legislative forms. Nor ia it taxation. A " Tax," says Webster's Dictionary, " is a rate Vol. II.] CITIZENS' SAVINGS, ETC.,... | |
| West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals, Edgar P. Rucker - 1878 - 966 Seiten
...been well said : " To lay with one hand the power of the government on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it upon favored individuals...legislation. It is a decree under legislative forms." The principle has been so often adjudicated it is not necessary to cite other authority than the case... | |
| Louisiana. Supreme Court - 1879 - 1682 Seiten
...private enterprises : "To lay with one hand the power of the government on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it upon favored individuals...legislation. It is a decree under legislative forms." The suit was on bonds issued by the city of Topeka, in aid of a manufacturing company, in virtue of... | |
| 1904 - 1148 Seiten
...upon favored Individuals • » * Is none the less robbery because done under the forms of law and called 'taxation.' This is not legislation. It Is...decree under legislative forms. Nor is It taxation." The Supreme Court of West Virginia, in Varner v. Martin, 21 W. Va. 534, 548, Judge Green, on behalf... | |
| 1881 - 446 Seiten
...one hand the power of the government on the property of the citizen and with the other bestow it on favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation. This is not legislation ;... | |
| John Joseph Lalor - 1883 - 1076 Seiten
...lay •with one hand the power of the government on the property of the citizen, and with the other bestow it upon favored individuals to aid private...enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less robbery because it is done under the forms of the law and is called taxation. This is not legislation;... | |
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