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lar will pay for chopping two cords of wood, and at another 

 only one. Work, like every thing else oifered in market, 

 is worth what it will sell for ; and, like other things, is 

 materially affected by the supply and demand. I have 

 noticed thi^ fact, however, about the price of work, it is 

 about the last thing to go up, and the last thing to go down. 

 The price of work will find its level, though not as quickly 

 as other thino-s. 



It is not wise, it is foolish and worse, for the man who 

 works to imagine he has a quarrel with the man who jpaj/s 

 for w^ork. Work and wages have a mutual interest. They 

 are dependent upon each other. The large farmer must 

 hire or lose money, and the poor laborer must work for pay, 

 or beg, or starve. 



This is a free country, perhaps you have heard. The 

 man with money will not long pay a dollar and a half for 

 work that is worth to him only a dollar. ISTeither can the 

 laborer be coinjpelled to work for less than he chooses to 

 take. Such being the case, there must be a mutual agree- 

 ment between employer and employed. Work and wages 

 must come to an understanding often. 



Work is like other things in this, too : The best is the 

 cheapest. I have to pay John $1.50 per day for common 

 farm w^ork, and he is the cheapest help I ever hired. He 

 does a lot of work and does it well. He will neither lie idle 

 himself nor suffer others at work on the same job to do so. His 

 judgment is good. If there is any best or cheapest way to 

 do a thing, John will find it out. While the other fellow, 

 who breaks tools, is always late to begin, slow to start, for- 



