Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1888 — Capital Learns a Lesson. [ARTICLE]

Capital Learns a Lesson.

Village Workingman—Well, sir, we’re ready. Enterprising Citizen—Ready for what ? Village Workingman—You spoke some time ago about building a factory to help the town along, and so we’ve been hard at work getting in shape for it. We’ve formed a trades federation of all the working men in the county, and after a great deal of trouble have at last settled on how many hours we will work, what time we will begin, what time we will stop, what wages we want, what hands you can employ and what you can’t, what foremen and what superintendent you must have, and all the other little things which workingmen have a .right to demand. You saw the accounts of our meetings in the paper, I suppose? Why don’t you rush up that factory? r~ Enterprising Citizen — I have no capital now. ’. Village Workingman—No capital? Enterprising Citizen—No: I turned it over to the State Board of Lunacy to hold r in trust for me, and instructed them that if ever I asked for the principal they ahold ( "put me" in rsteratt Jaeket. i