Lynn Thompson
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669 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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Who pours it into his mammoth bin?
There ought to be no such hostility.
The occupation of one is as necessary as that of the other.
Yet producers often think it no wrong to snatch away from the trader.
And they say to the bargain maker
You get your money easy.
Do they get it easy?
Let those who in the quiet field and barn get their living exchange places with those who stand today amid the excitements of commercial life.
And see if they find it so very easy.
Why the farmer goes to sleep with the assurance that his corn and barley will be growing all the night, moment by moment adding to his revenue.
The merchant tries to go to sleep, conscious that that moment his cargo may be broken on the rocks, or damaged by the wave that sweeps clear across the hurricane deck.
Or that the gold gamblers may, that very hour, be plotting some monetary revolution on the
or the burglars be prying open his cafe, or his debtors fleeing the town.
or his landlord raising the rent, or the fires kindling on the block that contains all his estate.
Easy, is it?
God help the merchant, it is hard to have the palms of the hand blistered with outdoor work, but a more dreadful process when, through mercantile anxieties the brain is consumed.
In the next place we notice mercantile lies, those before the counter and behind the counter
I will not attempt to specify the different forms of commercial forcehood.
There are merchants who excuse themselves for deviation from truthfulness because of what they call commercial custom.
In other words, the multiplication and universality of a sin turns it into a virtue.
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