Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | |
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| NUMBER: | 1452 |
AUTHOR: | Edgar Lee Masters (18691950) |
QUOTATION: | Beware of the man who rises to power From one suspender. |
ATTRIBUTION: | EDGAR LEE MASTERS, John Hancock Otis, Spoon River Anthology, p. 123 (1915, reprinted 1916).
In this poem, the rich John Hancock Otis describes a man born in a shanty and beginning life as a water carrier
then section hand
afterwards foreman
who rose to the superintendency of the railroad as a veritable slave driver, grinding the faces of labor, and a bitter enemy of democracy. |
SUBJECTS: | Power |
WORKS: | Edgar Lee Masters Collection | |
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