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Project Gutenberg's The Harris-Ingram Experiment, by Charles E. Bolton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Harris-Ingram Experiment Author: Charles E. Bolton Release Date: October 9, 2005 [EBook #16834] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HARRIS-INGRAM EXPERIMENT *** Produced by Audrey Longhurst, Mary Meehan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE HARRIS-INGRAM EXPERIMENT By CHARLES E. BOLTON, M.A. AUTHOR OF "A MODEL VILLAGE AND OTHER PAPERS," "TRAVELS IN EUROPE AND AMERICA," ETC. CLEVELAND THE BURROWS BROTHERS COMPANY 1905 TO MY WIFE SARAH KNOWLES BOLTON AND MY SON CHARLES KNOWLES BOLTON INTRODUCTION This volume was ready for publication when my husband died, October 23, 1901. In it, in connection with a love story and some foreign travel, he strove to show how necessary capital and labor are to each other. He had always been a friend to labor, and there were no more sincere mourners at his funeral than the persons he employed. He believed capital should be conciliatory and helpful, and co-operate with labor in the most friendly manner, without either party being arrogant or indifferent. Mr. Bolton took the deepest interest in all civic problems, and it is a comfort to those who loved him that his book, "A Model Village and Other Papers," came from the press a few days before his death. He had hoped after finishing a book of travel, having crossed the ocean many times and been in many lands, and doing some other active work in public life, to take a trip around the world and rest, but rest came in another way. Sarah K. Bolton Cleveland, Ohio. PREFACE Mr. W.D. Howells, in reply to a literary society in Ashtabula County, Ohio, said that most people had within their personal experience one book. I have often quoted Howells's words to my best friend, who has written a score of books, and the answer as frequently comes, "Why not write a book yourself?" Encouraged by Howells's belief,
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