We invite the merchants to consider the question of unions and of
high wages from THEIR OWN point of view.
If we err in our statements or conclusions we shall be glad to
print replies and criticisms from responsible merchants over
their own signatures.
This we maintain: THAT IN PROMOTING THE WELFARE AND INCREASING
THE WAGES OF THE GREAT BODY OF WORKINGMEN, WE PROMOTE THE WELFARE
AND INCREASE THE PROSPERITY OF ALL LEGITIMATE MERCHANTS AND
BUSINESS MEN.
The unions make mistakes. The employers make mistakes. The
unions are often unreasonable. The employers are unreasonable
sometimes.
No doubt in America the workingman is more exacting and more
highly paid than anywhere else.
But in America, also, the merchant is more quickly and numerously
successful than anywhere else. ----
As a subject for our text to-day we shall take the street-car
lines--surface, underground or elevated--of any great American
city.
The success of every street-car system is made BY ALL THE
INHABITANTS OF THE CITY. Every woman who brings a baby into the
world in a great city adds so much value to the stock of that
city's street railroads. She increases the gross income of that
railroad by about three dollars and sixty-five cents a year with
each child to which she gives birth.
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