[The Young Engineers on the Gulf by H. Irving Hancock]@TWC D-Link bookThe Young Engineers on the Gulf CHAPTER I 23/28
"It was because we drove the gamblers out of the camp, and thus made enemies for ourselves on both sides of the camp lines." "Anyway, the company's officers can't blame us for trying to maintain proper order in the camp," Hazelton insisted stoutly. "Not if we can stop the outrages with this one explosion, perhaps," replied Tom thoughtfully.
"Yet, if there are many more tricks like this one played on the wall you'll find that the company's officers will be blaming us all the way up to the skies and down again.
Big corporations are all right on enforcing morality until it hits their dividends too hard.
Then you'll find that the directors will be urging us to let gambling go on again if the laborers insist on having it." "Well, we won't have gambling in the camp, anyway," Harry retorted stubbornly.
"We're simply looking after the interests of the men themselves.
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