ans to tide them over the hard
times. His friends have seen, more than once, coming from
his private office some of the hard-fisted men of toil in
his employ, with tears streaming down their faces. He had
called them into the office on hearing of certain bad habits
into which they had fallen, and so impressive had been his
talk with them, that they left his presence with the most
earnest resolves to do better in the future. The result of
all this relationship has been that during some fifteen
years of the management of this large business he has rarely
changed his men, and while strikes have abounded around him
he has never known a strike.

I hold in my possession a letter from one of our leading
iron-manufacturers in this country, who, in response to an
appeal for participation in a charity of this city, gave
answer that it had been a practice of the firm to invest a
certain portion of their profits in developing the comforts
of their workingmen, and that they were obliged to limit
their desire to give in charity in order that they might be
able to build homes, club-rooms, reading-rooms, and all the
_et ceteras_ of a really civilized community in their
work-village. These are examples, in our own country, of
what might be done.

One of the most beautiful models that I know of in modern
history is furnished by the town to which reference has
already been made--the town of Mulhouse, where, after some
thirty years, the spirit of brotherliness has so entered
into the relationships of capital and labor that a firm
would be disreputable which there attempted to carry on
business as business is ordinarily done here. All the
manufacturers plan out, organize, and carry on what to most
of us would seem impossible schemes for the amelioration and
uplifting of the condition of their working people. No one
wonders that, as he walks through the town which his large
hearted philanthropy imbued with this fine spirit, the
workingmen salute the originator of these schemes as "Father
Peter."

In addition to this personal, human relationship, capital
might and should, in all justice and humanity, identify the
pecuniary interests of labor with its own interests. What is
known as industrial partnership is simply a solution of this
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