 | Douglas Campbell - England - 1892 - 592 pages
...was in reference to this wholesale robbery of the poor that the well-known lines were written : " Thc law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater villain loose Who steals the common off the goose." In view of these facts, we can... | |
 | W. H. Bidwell - Banks and banking - 1900 - 522 pages
...later to protect our commons, and must join these Norfolk rebels in cursing the law which " Condemns the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose." It is curious to note that the... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - Great Britain - 1901 - 390 pages
...dissatisjjaction. A popular piece of doggerel declared that : — " The law locks up the man or womanWho steals the goose from off the common; But leaves the...greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose." Again, a small holder was frequently given compensation in the form ofjrioney instead of allotting... | |
 | Willis Mason West - Europe - 1903 - 756 pages
...sell their lands." A popular rhyme of the period expresses the feeling of the poorer classes : — " The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose...greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose." out to men with a little capital, who are known as "farmers." This second class work the land... | |
 | Henry Eldridge Bourne - Europe - 1905 - 570 pages
...did not appear in the records, it vanished with enclosure. This is the meaning of the rhyme : — " The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose...greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose." The new methods of agriculture and of manufacturing undoubtedly increased the wealth of the... | |
 | Edward Carpenter - Crime - 1905 - 153 pages
...punishes with lofty sense of justice the farm-labourer who appropriates a goose ; The law condemns the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common ; But leaves the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. The judge whose moral relations are notoriously unsatisfactory... | |
 | Lucian Lamar Knight - American literature - 1908 - 786 pages
...since the rendering of his famous decision, the old couplet will have to be revised : "The law condemns the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose." Strictly in keeping with the statement... | |
 | Charles Henry Chomley, Robert Leonard Outhwaite - Land value taxation - 1909 - 270 pages
...such facts as these before us we can understand the inspiration of the old rhyme — " Why prosecute the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, And leave the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose." That those who were depriving... | |
 | Illinois State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1909 - 510 pages
...to the poor man is as old as civilization. Some unknown rhymster has written: "The law will punish man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common ; But lets the greater rascal loose Who steals the common from the goose." If you were not told that this... | |
 | Charles Zueblin - Social problems - 1910 - 232 pages
...to-day as when the poor man was being driven by the enclosure acts to make way for the rich man's sheep: "The law locks up the man or woman who steals the goose from off the common, but lets the greater villain loose who steals the common off the goose." Stealing fowl may still be punished... | |
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The Law locks up The man or woman Who steals the goose From off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose... 
