 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1903 - 698 psl.
...and tells them that the men who depend upon the silk, cotton, woollen, and iron and steel industries are ' like sheep in a field. One by one they allow themselves to be led to the slaughter.' Some American reporter has stated, on the authority of an unnamed director of the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1903 - 700 psl.
...and tells them that the men who depend upon the silk, cotton, woollen, and iron and steel industries are ' like sheep in a field. One by one they allow themselves to be led to the slaughter.' Some American reporter has stated, on the authority of an unnamed director of the... | |
 | Edward Jenks - 1904 - 724 psl.
...! How long are you going to stand it ? At the present moment these industries, and the working-men who depend upon them, are like sheep in a field. One...is no combination, no apparent prevision of what is \fi store for the rest of them." In answer to this misleading and inaccurate description of British... | |
 | Liberal Publication Department - 1906 - 480 psl.
...gone, iron is threatened, wool is threatened, cotton will come. How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industries and the working men who depend upon them are like sheep in the fold." Well, we will see in a moment what has become of the sheep. " One by one " — let my friend... | |
 | Arthur Ralph Douglas Elliot - 1911 - 342 psl.
...threatened ; the turn of Cotton will come. How long are you going to stand it ? At the present time these industries, and the working men who depend upon them, are like sheep in a field.' (Mr. Chamberlain at Greenock, October 7, 1903.) ' By the middle of December it was quite clear that,... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - 1925 - 104 psl.
...the present time these industries and the working men who depend on them, are like sheep in a fold. One by one they allow themselves to be led out to...combination, no apparent prevision of what is in store for them." Even shipping, he said, was falling back, and minor industries were being strangled by foreign... | |
 | 1913 - 868 psl.
...come! How long are you going to stand it? At the present moment these industries, and the working-men who depend upon them, are like sheep in a field. One...they allow themselves to be led out to slaughter, and theite is no combination, no apparent prevision of what is in store for the rest of them."— (Greenock,... | |
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At the present moment these industries, and the working men who depend upon them, are like sheep in a field. 