...Wurts v. Hoagland (1885), 114 US 606; Spencer \. Merchant (1888), 125 US 337. classic observation that "to lay, with one hand, the power of the government...enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation. This is not legislation....

...exercised only for public purposes. In the leading case upon this subject, Mr. Justice Miller said, "To lay with one hand the power of the government on the property of the citizen, and with the other bestow it upon favoured individuals to aid private enterprise and build up private fortunes, is none...

...benefit and exempt no individual or class, was rendered years ago by one of its most famous justices: "To lay, with one hand, the power of the government...enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation." * "The security of property,...

...declaration of our Federal Supreme Court this is "ROBBERY," to the extent of two-thirds of the duty. To lay with one hand the power of the Government on...bestow it upon favored individuals to aid private enterprise and build up private fortunes is none the less ROBBERY be= cause it is done under the forms...

...United States Supreme Court in a case such as might originate in a thousand clauses of this tariff. "To lay with one hand the power of the Government on the property of the citizen," says the court in the Marshall case, "and with the other bestow upon favored individuals to aid private...

...attempted to be enforced." •In Loan Association v. Topeka, 20 Wall. 664, 22 L. Ed. 455, it is declared : "To lay with one hand the power of the government on the property of the citizens and with the other to bestow It upon favored individuals * » » is noiie the less robbery...

...words of the United States Supreme Court are: "To lay with one hand the power of the government on (lie property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow...enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation." M A well-known and well-considered...

...prosperity to the other, if there is no implied limitation of the uses for which the power may be exercised. To lay with one hand the power of the Government on...enterprises and build up private fortunes is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation. This Is not legislation....

...prosecution of war and the national defense" and that in such cases no Imitation is safe. Rut declared he "to lay with one hand the power of the government...enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation. This is not legislative....

...exercise. This principle of law is firmly established. As the United States Supreme Court has put it: "To lay with one hand the power of the government...enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation." 15 The borrowing power...