| Show HOMES HOMES rop FOE every ONE no better belter employment for capi 1 til can be conceived than in the ere erection tion of homes for laboring me men it his been tried in a few towns anti and proved a success from e avny deiy point of view it is not a philanthropic th work for it pays in money I 1 a profit upon the investment made and a shylock might engage in it I 1 without compunction providing provi providing ing he be satisfied with the rate of interest the departure however best befits honest capital in that it tends to dignify labor and prevent anarchy A man cannot live amid chaos and be a good citizen for careless LIU soundings 1 roun dings beget bad habits and breed lax principles children reared in slothfulness never turn out w well CIL there is a spirit in honest toll toil that rises rhea above a shanty and e scabs ec ks the comforts and a con of a framed dwelling with carpeted floors one surrounded by bv the of thrift ind and backed by the garden of prosperity a home in fact that may rightfully be called the owners baale neat dwellings can be built in most villages at from to adding from to for a lot does not make an investment so large lame but that the most moat ordinarily paid laborer 1 could soc soan n acquire title at 10 a moot month I 1 i which sum gum would little exceed rental value the house and lot could be bought and paid for in tour four years A small boy carrying papers could ern earn that amount leour four dollars a week weck pay for the WO home bome in five years A liberal policy pursued upon this thia plane by the wealthy men of a town bould result in placing g brun hundreds of homes in the hands of laborers who under no other conditions could ever aspire to the proprietorship of the house in which they lived the benefits of this system are capable of being demonstrated by any village that has toe the sagacity and to undertake it an absolutely safe investment is obtained for capital usually in a territory where values increase rapidly the wage earner easily becomes the owner or of prop I 1 erty that is i worth when paid for a respectable percentage more than it cost coat him the manufacturer is insured a reliable and intelligent class of employees and the community has the satisfaction arsee of I 1 seeing every man his bis own landlord this favorable condition of affairs renders labor hot troubles next nest to 10 im impossible very naturally the man who ho IT has invested his earnings in a h house ouse a and acl lot can see nothing to be gai gained in the idleness attending strikes and all tho the arguments of modern agitators will fail to on N inco ince iii airn n that h hi i fi firl fir rt l ailt dipti 1 is to ill hl union rihei wall to ais fall fam ill |
