the company are simply
"hands"--as to whose possession of hearts or minds or souls
the by-laws rarely take cognizance. Here there is plainly a
case where capital--the party of brains and wealth--the head
of the industrial association, should lead off in a
systematic effort and renew, as far as may be, the old human
tie, for which no substitute has ever been devised.

To conciliate the interests of the classes, and identify
labor with capital, individual employers must re-establish
personal relationships between themselves and their men.
What might be done in this way, and how, this being done,
the present alienation of feeling on the part of our
working-men would largely disappear, must be evident to any
one who has watched some of the beautiful exemplifications
of this relationship which have already grown into being on
our shores. I know of one large manufacturer, in a city not
a hundred miles from this, who started to enter the ministry
as a young man, but found to his intense disappointment that
he had no aptitude for the work of a preacher, and turned
his attention, on the insistent advice of those nearest to
him, to active business. He took up the business which his
father had left him at his death and had left largely
involved. His first task was to pay off, dollar for dollar,
all the debts which his father had bequeathed him, although
in most instances they had been compromised by his
creditors. He then threw the energy of his being into
development of the business, and, in the course of a few
years, put it at the forefront of that line in his native
city. Into his business he breathed the spirit of love to
God and man which had moved him originally to take up the
work of the ministry. He felt himself ordained to be what
Carlyle would have called a "captain of industry." From the
start he established personal, human, living relationships
with his men. He taught them by deed rather than by word to
consider him their friend. He was in the habit of calling in
upon their families in a social and respecting way. In all
their troubles and adversities he trained them to counsel
with him, and gave them the advantage of his riper judgment
and larger vision. In cases of exigency his means were at
their service in the way of lo