The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1890-03-15

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from the legitimate work of follow
ing that plough in the field.
After all the objections and all
the aversion TO work, work is health
ful and work is pleasant-up 10 q
coriain pOi"h Whatever may have
been the peculiar hysical and men
tai condition of father Adam and
mother Eve TO fit them for life Of
man is so constituted at
this distant remove from the begin
ming that work has become neccs-
sity of his nature. Absolute idle
ness is not good for him: it is
always liable to impair his physical
organs and get HIM into mischief.
Work. when taken in moderate
doses and suited to the strength of
his stomach, is good for his health;
and, when of that kind and guam
tity adapted TO his taste, is agree
able and happifying. But when OF
kind not G,ted to his taste or apti-
tude, or in quantity too great for his
capacity, or prolonged to the stage
Of fatigue and exhaustion, or when
forced to it in state of physical or
mental indisposition or disinclina-
ton, work is decidedly irksome and
repulsive, and the very thing TO
bring down imprecations on the
heads of our esteemed progenitors
of the palmy days of the beginning.
This is a working community.
The term is here used in contradis-
tinction to a community of wealthy
men, pleasure-seekers, sight-seers,
etc. The work is of various kinds,
and the workmen of as many classes.
There are the ordinary laborer, the
skilled mechanic, the salesman, the
car and cab driver, the accountant,
the collector, the newspaper writer,
the professional man, and others.
They are all working men. Some
work with the whole body, some
with the hands only, and some with
the heads and fingers. Here the
employers OF others are, generally
speaking, as much workingmen as
their employees, and many of them
| perhaps get less pay. But for the
purposes of the balance Of this es-
say l shall speak particularly of the
man who works for another, in what
ever capacity, whether laborer, me-
chanic, clerk, or anything else, as
the working man.
The relationship of employer and
employee, werkingman and boss, is
attended by reciprocal obligations
which either is apt at times not tc
be fully sensible of. The duty is
not all due from one side, ant
neither should delude himself will
the belief that mere fuliilment o
the letter of the agreement makes
the best master or the best servant
The employee who feels the interes
IN the success of his employer
concerns that he should be faithful
in small as well as great matters
and the employer who shows con
Germ for his employees welfare in
directly serves himself. The condi
ton and comforts of the workingmal
are often very much within th'
power of the employer to modify
and in nine cases out of ten, con
slderatc master is well served, ant
an inconsidcrate one the reverse
Perhaps this community-meanin
Honolulu-is somewhat exceptions
in the social relationship existin
between the workingman and hi
employer. No great gulf is tixe
between the two, as in some cour
tries. Jack is taken on the sam
footing with his master, and the
live on terms of friendliness an
sociability.
The working man is the poe
man, and because he is poor ma
he is working man. He has nc
I that visible and potential capt.:
which appears in the shape
7 money, lands, houses, stocks, et(
His only capital is labor. This b
puts out at the highest rate of inte
est procurable, and in so doing
absolved from the crime of usur,
which his rich neighbor often III
blushingly commits.
The poor man, otherwise IL
working man, is of all the popul:
tion the most important, because tl
most necessary. The capitalist, I'll
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