I've got four thousand dollars put by, and I'm insured for ten thousand, and mother's got twelve thousand at interest that she saved out of the washing.

I like to _live_.
They made me assistant foreman once, but I was no good at it.

I couldn't 'speed' the men.

It seemed to me they got a small enough part of what they earned, no matter how little they worked.

Did you ever think, it takes one of us only about a day to make enough barrels to pay his week's wages, and that he has to donate the other five days' work for the privilege of being allowed to live?
If I rose I'd be living off those five days of stolen labor.