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properly treat their employers. If laborers are treated 

 as mere animals, capable of doing a certain amount of 

 work, what right has the employer to find fault if they 

 act as such? He may, in disgust, call them "brutes," 

 but did he not hire them as such, and has he not, to some 

 extent, made them what they are ? He Who dnves hard 

 bargains with those in his employ, and proves a hard 

 master in his treatment of them while in his service, must 

 expect to reap as he has sown. Some excellent Christian 

 men appear to be totally unmindful of the duty they owe 

 to those in their employ. It should not be a mere mat- 

 ter of dollars and cents. Though if it were only such, 

 it pays vastly better to secure the hearty sympathy of 

 those working for us, rather than have them heartlessly 

 and grudgingly do as little as they possibly can for their 

 pay, not for us. 



I hope there are but few, if any, merchants who would 

 deduct from the salaries of their clerks the time spent in 

 vacation, or lost by sickness ; yet how many keep a rigid 

 account of the moments a laborer may be off duty. Has 

 not the laborer an equal right to deny to his employer a 

 moment's more work than he is compelled to give ? I 

 think so. 



Generous and kind treatment on the part of the em- 

 ployer, begets like generosity and kindness on the part of 

 ths employed, and only thus can capital and labor har- 

 monize. 



There is a debit and credit side to this account. The 

 employer and the employed must each give to the other 

 a quid pro quo. 



One winter afternoon, in Philadelphia, several years 



