 | Sermons, American - 1888 - 658 pages
...moving towards that. Mr. George has said in his wonderfully interesting book, " Progress and Poverty," that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer; that is, that the common people are getting worse off all the time. I do not believe that any one can... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1880 - 1436 pages
...private buildings. It has been a commonplace to speak of the growth of luxury in the Old World, and of the increasing separation between the rich and poor....of moderate incomes and an increase in the wages of labour. But if the common saying is at all true anywhere, I should say that the appearances of it are... | |
 | Homeopathy - 1895 - 600 pages
...the haughty ten- centers. And in the mean time it seems to hold good of the high-priced publications that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. If you want a fine coat you must pay for it. THE Medical Record handles the second edition of Dr. Burnett's... | |
 | 1905 - 968 pages
...much opposed to state education as they have been to clerical instruction. The Socialists' contention that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer was pretty effectually disproved recently by the investigation of the French Labor Bureau covering... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath; Selden Connor - 1893 - 530 pages
...of the native born workingmen is beginning to assume a serious aspect. It bears out the old saying that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. The situation is becoming grave, and some means must be found to alleviate their deplorable condition.... | |
 | Sermons, American - 1897 - 684 pages
...affairs socially or industrially or politically, and saying that the world is getting worse and worse, that the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer, and the republic is becoming more corrupt week by week and year by year, giving the impression that... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Biography - 1902 - 518 pages
...and seeing with a clear mind that as trade widens opportunities increase, he takes the mistaken view that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. These are the conditions of mind and life which are keeping thousands of young men down, and will keep... | |
 | Business - 1915 - 534 pages
...He invariably insists that this country is getting into the hands of the capitalists, the money men; that the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer, very fast. My friend honestly believes what he talks, and for this reason I respect him, and I like... | |
 | John Atkinson Hobson - Great Britain - 1905 - 286 pages
...was customary not only for platform agitators, but for thoughtful writers on the subject, to assume that "the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer." This formula was ripening into a popular creed when a number of statistical inquiries choked it. Prof.... | |
 | Hector Macpherson - English literature - 1907 - 354 pages
...was customary, not only for platform agitators, but for thoughtful writers on the subject, to assume that ' the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer.' This formula was ripening into a popular creed, when a number of statistical inquiries choked it. Professor... | |
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It's all too true that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. 
