Amen." Labor itself is not wholly responsible for its own faults.
These faults spring largely out of the defective social conditions amid which the workingman finds himself placed.
Before we proceed to administer to him the whole measure of the "whopping" due for his low estate, we had better look back of him, to see why it is that he is as he is.
The inefficiency of labor is by no means the fault of the individual laborer alone.

Heredity has bankrupted him before he started on his career.

His parents were probably as inefficient as he is--and most likely _their_ parents also.

One who sees much of the lower grades of labor ceases to wonder why children turn out worthless, knowing what the parents were.

General Francis A.Walker, in opening the Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute at Boston lately, said: "There is great virtue in the inherited industrial aptitudes and instincts of the people.