The scenery in the immediate neighbourhood is romantic, rural and beautiful. A better looking body of factory 'hands' than those in Saltaire I have not seen. They are far above the average of their class in Lancashire, and are considerably above the majority in Yorkshire. After the cholera epidemic of 1848, Titus Salt, at that time the mayor of Bradford, made a speech on the lessons of this tragedy. The cholera most forcibly teaches us our mutual connection.
Nothing shows more powerfully the duty of every man to look after the needs of others.
Cholera is God's voice to his people. Titus was perhaps the greatest captain of industry in England not only because he gathered thousands under him but also because, according to the light that was in him, he tried to care for all those thousands. We do not say that he succeeded in realising all his views or that it is possible to harmonise at present all relations between capital and labour. Upright in business, admirable in his private relations he came without seeking the honour to be admittedly the best representative of the employer class in this part of the country if not the whole kingdom. Find the book you want in seconds by author, title or subject.