For each of these expressions, the oldest example I can find is American, and they are only 3 years apart. It's interesting that they are both from the field of finance and government:


"I want to tell him that I am not talking here for the benefit of men who would rather ride to hell in a handcart than to walk to heaven supported by the staff of honest industry, as it has been said."

--The Coming Battle: A Complete History of the National Banking Money Power in the United States by M. W. Walbert (Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company, 1899), page 430.


"These are the unhung idiots who imagine that a nation, producing in abundance everything humanity needs, would go to hell in a handbasket if it adopted an independent currency system or an international policy which Yewrup did not approve."

--Brann the Iconoclast: A Collection of the Writings of W. C Brann In Two Volumes With Biography by J. D. Shaw (Waco, TX: Herz Brothers, 1896), page 228.