There
would be no heartless scabs taking the places of men struggling
to support wives and children.
Leave out sentimentality, if you will, and Christianity, and our
hollow pretence of following Him who called every poor man "my
brother."
What about the cold utility? Four millions more for an owner
mean what?
Some bogus antiquities, and perhaps a bogus title brought to
America.
Another palace, with a dissatisfied owner.
A dissipated son; money spent by this son to promote vice, and by
the father to corrupt legislation. Four hundred dollars more for
a workman's family mean wholesome food for children. And the
children go to school and have a chance.
This sum means a self-respecting life for a father, and for the
mother it means everything. She can hire some woman to help her
when her babies come. She can give her husband and her children
good food, rejoice in their comfort, add good, healthy citizens
to the nation. ----
The owner in his struggle makes various statements of which only
a few must be answered, and very briefly, for the sake of the
impatient reader.
"If capital goes on granting the demands of union labor there
will be no more capital, no more big manufactures, our prosperity
will die as England's prosperity is dying--killed by union
labor!"
Thus speaks the indignant, would-be patriotic and unselfish
capitalist.
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