CHAPTER XI CATRINA The man who carries a deceit, however innocent, with him through life is apt to be somewhat handicapped in that unfair competition.

For, even if we leave foreign competition out of account, and consider, as it were, labor throughout the world as a whole, the demand for labor is by no means inelastic.

The theory of monopolistic competition.

During the last decade they have been entering more and more into direct competition with British labour in the cabinet- making, shoemaking, baking, hair-dressing, and domestic service occupations.

You can only wander on as far as you dare, letting each object impress itself on your mind as it may, and carrying away a confused recollection of innumerable perpendicular lines, all straining upwards, in fierce competition, towards the light-food far above; and next of a green cloud, or rather mist, which hovers round your head, and rises, thickening and thickening to an unknown height.

The nature of John Yeardley's spiritual trials has been fully shown: his temporal crosses have also been glanced at; they consisted mainly of want of success in business, in which, indeed, he was little fitted to excel, under the keen competition of modern times.

Probable effects upon Europe of industrial competition with the United States: impossibility of keeping up the present military armaments.

A very small number, in effective competition with those employed, will be quite as effectual in keeping down the rate of wages.

But this consideration is qualified in two ways:a. Where Trust is formed or assisted by the possession of a natural monopoly, i.e. land, or some content of land, absolutely limited in quality, such potential competition does not exist, and nothing, save the possibility of substituting another commodity, places a limit on the rise of price which a Trust may impose on the public..

Sharp competition bids fair to make the wheel more popular and less expensive than ever.

There is very little competition in this line of discovering Ability.

It is rather that the atmosphere of commercial competition and rivalry automatically leads up to military rivalries and collisions, which often at the last moment (though not always) turn out contrary to the wishes of the commercial people themselves.

No statue of the venerable and illustrious penitent in the market-place to throw a wholesome awe over its earthliness, its frauds and petty wrongs of which the benumbed fingers of conscience can make no record, its selfish competition of each man with his brother or his neighbor, its traffic of soul-substance for a little worldly gain!

Whenever any one else (official or citizen) forbids and prevents a man from getting all he can, in so far competition is limited.

But most manufactures require an amount of capital and a practical skill which can not be commanded unless they be protected for a time from ruinous competition from abroad.

Apply (in first instance, by letter) to Godfather, care of Mr. Punch. * * * * * TO PARENTS AND GUARDIANS,affectionate but practical-minded, and anxious to find economical homes (somewhere else) for young gentlemen who cannot get on without expensive assistance at starting in Mother country, owing to excessive competition in laborious and over-crowded professions.

Where neither the employer has a monopoly in his business nor the organized laborers have a monopoly of the labor supply, there is two-sided competition in the labor bargain, and organization may help to raise particular wages inasmuch as it acts in the competitive ways above mentioned and as it helps to restore to the laborers a truer equality of competition.

This we neglect to do when we look with indifference or complacency upon the present phase of unrestricted competition in industrial work amongst women.

Their pleasures, poor as they were, could not be preserved pure, but were imbittered by petty competitions, and worthless emulation.

That mutual competition is one law of Nature, we see too plainly.

In either case competition actual or potential is the fundamental principle by which prices have to be regulated.

Distinction is so pleasing to the pride of man, that a great part of the pain and pleasure of life arises from the gratification or disappointment of an incessant wish for superiority, from the success or miscarriage of secret competitions, from victories and defeats, of which, though they appear to us of great importance, in reality none are conscious except ourselves.

Popular theory of immigrant competition.

After a very spirited competition, it was knocked down to the Marquis of Blandford for two thousand sixty pounds.

Importations of foreign goods have not been sensibly diminished, while domestic competition, under an illusive excitement, has increased the production much beyond the demand for home consumption.