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ments. I conversed with one of the hands who invented a 

 curious apparatus by which he marks a hundred register-bars 

 with greater accuracy and in but little more time than he could 

 formerly do one. He now finds working by the job especially 

 profitable. Paying by the piece has worked well here. The 

 men say it is fairer to pay for results than by hours. The 

 worth of labor depends upon its products. This plan stimu- 

 lates industry, promotes skill, and fosters inventiveness. It 

 apportions rewards to the quantity and quality of work done. 

 But more than all, this plan is recognized by the men as just 

 and satisfactory. With the time left practically to their own 

 choice, there is no eight-hour movement here. No " Labor 

 League" or Union has ever existed no strike ever been sug- 

 gested. This would be a poor place for the Internationals to 

 preach the gospel of idleness or agrarianism. Imagine one of 

 these delegates just arrived at St. Johnsbury and beginning his 

 arguments for a strike with Mr. - , whose house I visited. 

 I fancy him replying somewhat as he did to my inquiry. 

 "Why is it you never have any strikes here?" "Well, we 

 have a good set of men to start with temperate and moral. 

 Then we are well paid. Wages have often been advanced. 

 The owners take an interest in the men. They are liberal 

 and public spirited, and are doing a great deal for the place, 

 and we feel an interest in the success of the concern which 

 has been the making of St. Johnsbury." 



There has evidently been mutual sympathy and interest 

 between employer and employed. The senior Governor Fair- 

 banks used to say to the men, "Ydu should always come 

 to me as to a father." He maintained relations of kindness 

 with them, visiting the sick, helping the needy, counseling 

 the erring, encouraging their thrift, enjoining habits of econ- 

 omy. He taught them that it was their interest and duty to 

 "lay up something every month," and that the best way to 

 rise in the social scale was to unite economy with increasing 

 wages. He himself both preached and practiced economy. 

 He was a conspicuous example at once of strict economy and 

 princely liberality. His benefactions were munificent, both 

 at home and abroad. The fact that so many of the work- 

 men are "fore-handed," besides owning their homesteads, is 



