The aggregate value of the goods disposed of at these yearly gatherings of traders is enormous, being estimated as high as eighty millions of dollars!
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
The same compliment is given to other traders, whalers or travelers with whom they do business.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
But with the socialist agitation of 1863, a new class of economic questions came to the front-questions respecting the condition of the working classes, the relations of capital and labour, the distribution of national wealth, and the like-and on these new questions they could not join the Free traders in saying "Hands off!"
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae