| 1881 - 670 σελίδες
...be specially interested at second-hand bookshops. Perhaps these cautious people may be reminded that there is such a thing as killing the goose that lays the golden eggs, and that unless they come forward in support of the society there will be fewer second-hand volumes... | |
| John R. Flippin - 1889 - 482 σελίδες
...smuggling would be also correspond190 ingly decreased. But high taxation stimulates the illegal traffic. There is such a thing as killing the goose that lays the golden eggs, and there is also such a thing as making taxation so grievous as to defeat the ends sought to be attained.... | |
| Church congress - 1893 - 608 σελίδες
...unions in the future depends very much on the wisdom with which they use their undoubted power to-day. There is such a thing as " killing the goose that lays the golden eggs," and if the fetters on industry are drawn too tight, enterprise will be crushed, and capital will flow... | |
| 1901 - 1132 σελίδες
...increasing volume to satisfy the increasing need or increasing greed of those who manipulate the fingers. There is such a thing as killing the goose that lays the golden egg, and the Government appears to have discovered that the tension of the fingers had reached strangulation... | |
| William Carlos Brown - 1909 - 250 σελίδες
...it and they ought not to try to pass it along to the manufacturers, who have all they can carry now. There is such a thing as killing the goose that lays the golden egg. Let the railroads get along for a time on a lower rate of dividends the same as other people do,... | |
| 1916 - 724 σελίδες
...existed before. It has shown that, however much we may sympathize with the sailors' rights and liberties, there is such a thing as " killing the goose that lays the golden eggs ;" that the evils of a century cannot be arbitrarily cured by one stroke of the legislative pen ; that... | |
| Stanley Spooner - 1904 - 788 σελίδες
...Exchequer might make a million out of them without their feeling it." Might he, indeed ! There is after all such a thing as killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. WE have been so long pegging away at the subject of our derelict canals, and the manner in which the... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1935 - 348 σελίδες
...kill the greatest monster the world has ever seen, a monster that is causing a loss of $100,000,000 per day, or $1,000,000 every 15 minutes. Is it not...of stopping the mounting tax burden for relief, and of once more bringing to our people a feeling of confidence and optimism which is so sadly lacking... | |
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