This gave me a great confidence in myself and in the institutions of this country.

A land where a boy can enter the mills at eleven, learn two trades, acquire a sound business education and make a competence in his thirties is not such a bad country as the hot-headed Reds would have us believe.

I was now launched on a business career and my investments were paying me much larger revenues than I could earn at my trade.

It was a rule of the union that when a man ceased to work in the iron, steel or tin trades he forfeited his membership.

However, the boys thought that Mahlon M.
Garland--a puddler who went to Congress--and myself had done noteworthy service to the labor cause, and they passed a resolution permitting us to remain in the organization.