Patriotism in these days was not a mask for profiteers and murderers were not permitted to hide their bloody hands in the folds of their nation's flag.
These patriotic profiteers throughout the country have falsely and with out any foundation whatever charged the I.
By means of newspaper-made war hysteria theprofiteers of Big Business entrenched themselves in public opinion.
These profiteers are holding numerous secret meetings to that end, and covertly inviting returned service men to do their bidding.
The profiteers are a consequence and not a cause of rising prices.
No," he said; "only nations or profiteerscan afford him, I suppose.
The new Austrian province in the south would have acted as ballast to steady the rollings of the Ship of State, top-heavy with its northern profiteers and proletariat.
But the policy, in so far as a compilation of the unchecked schedules and uncriticised schemes of war profiteers can be said to have a policy, is that of making the German workmen produce for British Big Business.
You might as well judge Germany by the guzzling swine in this place as England by a party of profiteers at Brighton.
It is only the profiteers who feed well in Germany.
While the poor are being deprived of what they have, the purchases of pearls, diamonds, and other gems by the profiteers are on a scale never before known in Germany.
But the proletariat also leaks away to join the ranks of petty profiteers and barter-traders, we are ashamed and sorry to confess.
The same, as I stated above, is true of a campaign against profiteers though proposed by so high an authority as President Wilson.
Every one must keep his or her tongue between the teeth, for the war profiteers must make money out of the want and misery of the wives and their husband soldiers at the front.
The slave profiteers secured the nomination by one faction of John C.
With immense shrewdness the profiteers of slavery saw and developed their opportunity.
His case, indeed, was only one of thousands of others in England, where adventurers and war-profiteers were ousting the landed gentry.
If members of the Allied Governments are profiteers what can the man-in-the-street expect of the poor little scraping-up tradesman oppressed by taxation and bewildered by waste?
And to the end of his life this man will never erase from the minds of many people the notion that he was of all profiteers the worst, because the most hypocritical.
Between the long-suffering public, who thought they had a reason for hating Flavelle, and the profiteers who really had such a reason, Sir Joseph had an experience that would have tested any man's Christianity.
Even profiteers now admitted everything to be abnormal.
He wanted to beat back the Huns, who had made all this fearful mess; but also he wanted to beat the profiteers who were making messes at home.
He pointed out how the profiteers at home were entrenching themselves, making ready to exploit the soldiers returning without jobs.
And even the savers who have saved out of war profits were so far more patriotic than the war profiteers who did not save but squandered.
Bad finance is so much easier to perpetrate than to remedy that one is almost certain to come across such objections as this to any scheme for making the war profiteers "cough up" some of their gains.
It is a mistake to think that the big profiteersare the only ones who are to blame for existing conditions.
War is simply a scheme by which the big men and the profiteers put it over the plain people.
There are shoals and swarms of little profiteers who are just as selfish and rapacious as the big ones.
So when I gets on the subject of how we ducked payin' war prices for vegetables to the local profiteersby raisin' our own he wants to know all about it.
You are living at a time when profiteers amaze by their cynical audacity, but profiteers have always existed.
Before the war the nobles of Russia and Germany were profiteers in landed privileges and governmental perquisites.
They are therefore profiteers rather than producers, and no economic system can hope to survive unless it is based on production rather than profiteering.
They were the ones who made the reluctant gifts to the American Red Cross, which was the Food Administrator's favorite form of penalization, when he did not have to go to the extreme of putting persistent profiteers out of business.
Seventh: That an analysis of these margins will show that they can be constructively diminished but that, regrettable as it is, the prosecution of profiteers will not do it.
I felt that it would be a proper punishment for war-profiteers if they were sentenced to purchase all their requirements at bazaars for six months.
The contemporary which refers to the discovery of a gold ring inside a cod-fish as extraordinary evidently cannot be aware that many profiteers who go in for fishing are nowadays using such articles as bait.
Our world seems made up ofprofiteers and of those who would be profiteers but can't, and so abuse those who can.
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