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family and the parents when they grow 

 old — ^how much more happiness such a 

 state of affairs would bring to them; how 

 much more contentment you would find. 

 There would be no need for labor agitators 

 with big salaries, big traveling expenses, 

 with retinues of clerks, to bring on strikes 

 and such things. There no longer would 

 be a need of large bands of dynamiters to 

 blow up newspaper buildings in Los An- 

 geles and in other civilized cities, nor 

 bridges, so as to give more labor, or injure 

 the property or lives of those who wish to 

 work and be paid for the value of their 

 services, nor would honest labor be as- 

 sessed to pay for hired assassins to kill 

 judges who render decisions that are not 

 satisfactory to the laboring unions, or to 

 pay attorneys to defend them or witnesses 

 to prove alibis. These are all little things, 

 but they count up to quite a sum in the end. 

 It would do away with the expensive droves 

 of Walking Delegates, who take money 

 from the employers and hold up their em- 

 ployees. The lowest and the most miser- 

 able trusts we have in this country are the 



