Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1878 — Employer and Employed. [ARTICLE]

Employer and Employed.

Whenever either employer or employed forgets that there is a community of interest between the, two, both are sufferers. Thie-irtrueof all kinds of business In which the two classes come in contact. The employer who has no other interest in his help than to get out of them all that their strength will permit them to do, will soon find that his employes will become equally as selfish, iiikl that not only the least possible amount of labor that will prevent tnoir discharge will be done, but that what is done will be imperfectly performeo, and the employe who has no other interest than to get his money, is a detriment to any man who employs him In some establishments, and on some farms, a stranger would be unable to tell, from the language or actions of the help, that they were employes. Whenever they speak of the affairs of their employer, they don’t speak of them as if he was wholly responsible, and that they had no responsibility whatever, but their language conveys the idea that they feel their own responsibility, and that the successor failure of the business is a matter of anxiety to them; and their actions accord with their words. Nine out of ten employers greatly appreciate such a manifestation of interest, and it really seems to lighten the burden which always necessarily rests upon a business man. If an employe has such an interest in the affairs of his employer, there is no mistaking it. It will show itself on every conceivable occasion; aud if he has been so unfortunate as to find a man who does not appreciate his merits, they will not long go unrewarded, for others will see them, and be glad to avail themselves of them. It is, no doubt, the case with human Nature, that it is selfish in all of its relations of life, and perhaps the great majority of men are too apt to slight their duties, instead of doing everything upon honor, and performing services for others as they would perform the same service for themselves; but there are men, and a great many of them, who aiHJ strictly conscientious in the performance of their duties as employes, and it is such men who will always win.— Western Rural.