Those who profit most by the present factory system ought, in all justice, to be held responsible to those who suffer most from it.

They ought to be held morally bound to make up to them in some way the interest in life that has gone out with the old handicrafts.

They could interest their hands _out_ of the working hours, and in ways that would give them a new interest _in_ their working hours.

* * * Not a few of our manufacturers are already opening their eyes to the facts of the industrial problem, and, with far-seeing generosity and human brotherliness that will, according to the eternal laws, return even the good things of this world unto them, they are providing their workingmen with libraries, reading-rooms, and halls for lectures and entertainments.

They are encouraging and stimulating the formation of literary and debating societies, bands, and clubs, and such other things as give social fellowship and mental interest.