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AtTGTIST 11, 1905
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ON MAKING MONEY, AND MEN'
On the wall above the desk in my
library hangs a calendar bearing the
picture of the Golden Rule Mayor of
Toledo, who died with his life's work
hardly begun, but who yet lived long
enough to be inspiration to thousands
over all this land.
The motto from his speeches chosen
by the compiler as suitable for the day
I write indeed it is fitting for any
day is this:
"Making money is but one Of the
purposes of carrying on the business
of the S. M. Jones Co.; making men
is the other, and by far more import
ane." It is worth noting here that the com
pany amply fulfilled both purposes,
no "cold-blooded business man" intent
only on getting the last atom of work
one of his workmen for the least drib
let of pay, did better financially than
Jones. He made money enough for
his broad and generous life; enough
for his public activities and quiet bene
factions; enough to share liberally
with his workers and so help to make
them men.
Money does not make men. True
enough. But too great a lack of it
unmakes them; fills them with a
haunting, terrifying dread of the mor
row that breaks down their moral
stamina, destroys their independence,
sometimes leads them to abandon
themselves to folly and dissipation,
through mere desperation.
It is all very well to preach pru-.
dence and thrift to men whose earn
ings keep them always on the narrow
line between self-support and pauper
ism. Laying up for a rainy day is
not so simple a process when the little
set aside from each day's earnings
makes every day dreary and dun
colored. Preaching thrift to the very
poor is like telling a man who is starv
ing that he should eat less.
Sam Jones did not fall into this
error. He saw first that Ixis men were
well paid and their jobs as
certain as their own frailties would
permit and even those-frailties were
judged always by a lenient and kind
ly boss. And then he would gather
them all together and preach mutual
helpfullness, co-operation and brother
hood. Were his system universal there
would be no such labor troubles as
rack Chicago today. And mark you,
it pahl. That is the last word of
approval to bo expressed concerning
any system in the present stale of the
business mind.
It is one of the most serious counts
in the indictment against the modern
system of concentrated industry, and
production on a colossal scale under
the incorporate management, that it
will not permit the maintenance of
any personal relations between em
ployer and employed. It makes money,
to be sure, but it unmakes men. It
makes things cheap and men too
cheap to buy them. The greatest in
dustriessteel, railways, electrical
equipments, oil are run from Wall
street offlces by men who understand
high finance, but look upon workmen
as they look upon crude oil, or Mesaba
ore raw material to be bought at the
lowest price.
My friend and colleaeuo. Dr. firmer.
ory, was impressed the other day by
the pitiful case of a slain workman
who was known only by the tag "JIG"
about his neck, which identified him
to the paymaster. How many of these
there are no census -can enumerate.
Yet each tagged man has or had
the hopes, the aspirations, the pas
sions and the virtues of other men.
Under the theory of our civilization,
too, he has the rights and the liberties
of all others.
But the ugly fact is that he enjoys
neither rights nor liberty. The slave
of the south was in most matters as
free and in vital things vastly more
fortunate than he.
To make men; as well as money
Could there be a higher ideal? Can
any one name half a dozen corpora
tions which maintain this lofty pur
pose? I know of one at East St.
Louis managed by a bosom friend of
the late Mayor Jones, Mr. N. O. Nel
son. Perhaps there are others. But
they will not be on the list of trusts,
nor among the concerns whose mana
gers make more by stock juggling
than by the patient prosecution of a
useful producing business Willis J.
Abbott in New York American.
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"DE FUST KIND WORDS"
The negroes in New York are ap
parently more anxious to get away
from there than those in the south
are to leave this section. Negroes
used to be inclined to the belief that
if they could only get to New York
or some other northern city all their
troubles would disappear. This re
calls the story of the negro who was
received with great politeness in New
York, but who could secure no work.
He was greeted las "Mr. Johnson"
and made to feel that he was of much
social importance, but right there the
kindness stopped. Finally, beating
his way back south, ho was lying In
a Virginia hayrick when the farmer
found him. Then "Mr. Johnson" was
assailed with a volley of language
that was appalling. Tears came to
his eyes, and with voice a tremble he
said: "Boss lemme take you by de
hand. Dem's de fust kind words I
heern since I lef ol' Georgia." Sa
vannah (Ga.) News.
CORPORATION CROOKS
It is well enough to denounce the
miserable tools in the councils of our
cities and to thunder against the po
litical bosses. But they are not, after
all, the chief sinners. The chief sin
ners are the eminent and pious men
who occupy the chief seats in the syn
agogue, who make long prayers on
the street corners and who make
broad the phylacteries of their gar
ments. Somdhow or other we must
make such corporate crookedness un
fashionable. We must hold the stock
holders in such concerns as this
Philadelphia Gas company to a very
strict accountability. If a man
chooses to rob his neighbors through
such instrumentalities as this he
must at least be made to know that
h'is neighbors understand that they are
being robbed and robbed by him.
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