 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...  American Bee Journal - Page 3401892Full view - About this book
 | William Salter - Devotional calendars - 1904 - 196 pages
...of the citizens, 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 taxation. Samuel F. Miller, born April 5, 1811. (A Constitutional jurist, rivalled only by John Marshall.... | |
 | Sidney Calhoun Tapp - Constitutional history - 1904 - 366 pages
...the citizens and with the other to bestow it upon a favorite individual to aid private enterprises and to build up private fortunes, is none the less robbery because it is done under the form of law and is called taxation." ' The government should be so restricted in its legislative powers... | |
 | Arizona. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1905 - 518 pages
...on favored individuals to aid private 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. It is a decree under legislative form." Loan Assn. v. Topeka, 20 Wall. C55.... | |
 | Simeon Eben Baldwin - Law - 1905 - 426 pages
...all for the good of one. That, said Mr. Justice Miller in delivering the opinion, "is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called 1Dr. Bonham's Case, 8 Coke's Reports, 114, 118. *Coxe, "Judicial Power and Unconstitutional Legislation,"... | |
 | Henry Newton Ess - Local taxation - 1907 - 420 pages
...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 of law and is called taxation. It is a decree under legislative forms." After defining what is a tax and declaring that the purpose must... | |
 | Charles Noble Gregory - Constitutional history - 1907 - 264 pages
...upon favored individuals to aid private enterprise 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. It is a decree under legislative forms. zen by government for the use of the... | |
 | 1907 - 886 pages
...favored individuals to aid private enterprises and to build up private fortunes, is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called a taxation. This is not legislation. It is a decree under legislative forms. "If it be said that a... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan - United States - 1908 - 334 pages
...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 of law and is called taxation." "Robbery" is even a stronger word than larceny, but I am so conservative in my language that I prefer... | |
 | Charles Noble Gregory - 1908 - 24 pages
...upon favored individuals to aid private enterprise 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. It is a decree under legislative forms. Nor is it taxation. A "tax," says... | |
 | Grover Cleveland - Presidents - 1908 - 620 pages
...his death universally lamented, has characterized such a proceeding as " none the less a rob332 bery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation." Let us then appreciate the fact that we not only stand upon sure and safe ground when we appeal to... | |
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