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for walking delegates, business agents and 

 bomb throwers to protect the weaklings of 

 their number, for then there will be no 

 weaklings for unions and walking delegates 

 to protect. We can thus divide the laboring 

 community into classes — those that come 

 from healthy, good, sober, long-lived, hard- 

 boned ancestry, with great strength, that 

 have done great service for so many years, 

 and lived temperate, good lives, and are 

 able to work ten or twelve hours a day with- 

 out straining themselves or to carry or lift 

 from 200 to 1,000 pounds, and weigh from 

 200 to 400 pounds or more; and then the 

 ages at which their ancestors died and from 

 what they died, the number of their children 

 and their children's strength and early ma- 

 turity. These characteristics could all be 

 arranged and the laboring men be graded in 

 classes. A, B, C, D, E, and P ; F being the 

 llDwest class, with low ancestry, ill health, 

 soft bones, sluggish in their movement, and 

 not calculated to produce children that 

 would mature early and help along the 

 household, etc. Why, there is no trouble to 

 breed any kind of men you like, 4 feet men 

 or 7 feet men — or, for instance, all to weigh 



