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must go shivering about his work the next chilly day. See 

 to it that such men are paid often. We are, more than we 

 think, perhaps, their keepers. 



In the best book I ever saw is this law. Lev. xix : 13 : 

 " The wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee 

 all night until the morning." And again, Deut. xxiv : 14, 

 15 : " Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor 

 and needy. At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither 

 shall the sun go down upon it, for he is poor and setteth 

 his heart upon it." 



A man that works in my neighborhood nearly all the 

 time by the day, told me he once worked for a man who 

 was able to pay his debts and more too, and that at one time 

 when he had been at work for him a few days, the gentle- 

 man owed him more than enough to buy a barrel of flour, 

 and instead of getting his pay at once, and buying his flour 

 by the barrel, he got seventy-five cents, one dollar, and one 

 dollar and fifty cents at a time, and was obliged to buy his 

 flour by the pound, thus losing at least half a dollar of his 

 hard earned money, besides the extra time it took to run 

 after a few pounds of flour at a time. That was clearly a 

 violation of the law before quoted. 



For the credit of all the men I ever worked for, I will 

 say that I never lost a cent that I earned ; and for the credit 

 of all the men who ever worked for me, I will say that they 

 have been smart enough to get their pay. 



There is something besides muscle that affects a hired 

 man's value. And men when they hire out take into con- 

 sideration other things besides a specified amount of money. 



When you hire a man, if you know he has a well estab- 



