Then, at the other end of the social scale, a class of rich capitalists was being created, and everybody who has read a little history knows that a rich and powerful tiers etat cannot be permanently conciliated with autocracy.
One book said that British capitalists owned all the money in the world and that at a given signal they would draw the money out of America and the working men here would starve to death in twenty-nine days.
These men were capitalistsand their future was provided for.
From this I learned that laborers becamecapitalists when they saved their money.
He claimed he knew just how the capitalists were robbing labor.
He leaves to students and to capitalists the safeguarding of his future.
The communist books that Comrade Bannerman had given me taught me to believe that capitalists had no human feelings like ordinary mortals.
To be told by some of my fellows that dishonesty was the only road to wealth, and to be shown in communist documents that the capitalists of America were stealing everything from the workers, put a mighty problem up to me.
They would allow, for instance, American capitalists to come here and establish themselves as a British corporation in which all the corporators and all the directors were American, and so with every other nationality.
When the Presidency had approved of the flotation of bonds, I went with my father to New York to aid him in interesting Eastern capitalists in the investment.
The other was the desire of some Eastern capitalists to have my father's vote in the Senate to aid them in the promotion of a railroad from Salt Lake City to Los Angeles.
They assured the victims that there could be no doubt that the stock underwritten would be sold, as the capitalists to whom the victims had been introduced would be certain to buy them.
As for the capitalists who invest their money, either with the State or in commercial operations, at three, four, and five per cent.
But if the property is divided, all conditions will be equal--there will be no more large capitalists or large proprietors.
This cause of distrust no longer existing, capitalists will find new markets, agriculture will rapidly develop, and farmers will be the first to enjoy the benefit of the new law.
Master Thornberry is against the capitalists in land; but there are other capitalists nearer home, and I know more about them.
But if we get rid of capitalists we shall soon get rid of capital.
Capitalists give part of their capital for public, educational, artistic, philanthropic institutions.
As a preliminary step, a hungry host of individual capitalists and land syndicates, proceed to purchase large tracts of adjacent lands at farm prices.
He becomes more completely the slave of the trusts or capitalists who own the tools and who monopolize the industries.
It affected the character of the English, who tend to be stoics, and imbued capitalists with a hard-working attitude.
The capitalists first became owners of the materials, then of the implements, and then of the work places.
The Glorious Revolution favored the capitalists and the commercial magnates even though it had been started by the landed families, with whom they now intermarried.
Foreign capitalists are seeking to develop these resources in several localities.
Within recent years German capitalists have built railways along these roads, thereby creating a considerable export trade in fruit, rugs, and mohair cloth.
Among the capitalists there are those who want wealth—mainly the fruit of dead men’s toil—for themselves.
Whether we be capitalists or socialists or neither, we must learn that to prey upon the treasury left by the dead is to live, not the life of a human being, but that of a ghoul.
There are capitalists and capitalists; there are socialists and socialists.
Many of the carts and oxen are owned by those who drive them, but others are leased to the carreteros by capitalists who possess a large number.
Large numbers of English, Scotch, and Irish capitalists are securing estancias, and raising sheep and cattle upon a large scale.
They played at being masters, scorned the proletariat, and worked for the profit of the capitalists who paid them.
Capitalists are shy of investments in roads with steep grades, and of course it is important to make a fair show of facilities in obtaining funds for new routes.
The manufacturers and the capitalists swell the chorus lustily.
There were hundreds of shrewd capitalists in American cities in 1876, looking with sharp eyes in all directions for business chances; but not one of them came to Bell with an offer to buy his patent.
It gives a common meeting place to capitalists and wage-workers.
A few Senators and legitimate capitalists were lifted up as the figureheads of the crusade.
Forbes, who came in as a friend of the Bradleys, were the first capitalists who, for purely business reasons, invested money in the Bell patents.
Capitalists treated it exactly as they treated the Atlantic Cable project when Cyrus Field visited Boston in 1862.
And the Western Union, in the endeavor to protect its private lines, became involuntarily a bell-wether to lead capitalists in the direction of the telephone.
It encouraged the few capitalists who had invested money, and it stirred others to come forward.
When he asked capitalists for money, they replied that he might as well expect to lease jew's-harps as telephones.
Several powerful capitalists undertook to pay the expenses of this adventure.
It was several days after the landslide that had brought the stirring events in the Adirondack Mountains to a close--events that were directly traceable to the great business consolidation that these capitalists were now discussing.
I am letting you into the secret methods of capitalists who build railroads and organize great business projects without using a dollar of their own money," said Jerome.
On the one side a statesman preaching patience and respect for vested rights, strict observance of public faith; on the other a demagog speaking about the tyranny of capitalists and usurers.
It is clear, then, that since 990 men, urged by want, will crowd upon the supports which would only maintain a hundred, the ten capitalists will be masters of the market.
Before the discovery of the precious metals, there were capitalists in the world; and I venture to say that at that time, as now, everybody was a capitalist, to a certain extent.
Unfortunately, certain capitalists have arrogated to themselves monopolies and privileges which are quite sufficient to account for this feeling.
Well, the capitalistsare not exempt from this law.
The rise of capital and business enterprise into greater importance, and the extension of the field of competition, gave greater opportunity to employing farmers, merchants, and manufacturers, as well as to the capitalists pure and simple.
The projector having no general view of the field of industry and consumption, such as our government has, could never be sure either what the people wanted, or what arrangements other capitalists were making to supply them.
The nation does not maim and slaughter its workmen by thousands, as did the private capitalists and corporations of your day.
It should be also noted that the great amount of capital always seeking employment where tolerable safety could be insured terribly embittered the competition betweencapitalists when a promising opening presented itself.
It took the deep pockets of our private capitalists to do that, and often exhausted even them before the returns came in.
But the pity of it is that we make the force of the waterfall labor, not for the benefit of the workmen, but to enrich capitalists who produce articles of luxury or weapons of man-destroying war.
Capitalists expend a portion of their wealth on educational, artistic, and philanthropic institutions for the public benefit.
A Couple ofCapitalists On the top of the hill stood the big brick house--a mansion, compared to the other houses of the New England village.
As the large manufacturers and capitalists are generally the persons who derive great pecuniary benefit from the progress of science, it might be reasonably urged that they should contribute freely towards its advancement.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "capitalists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
