The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1902-04-23

Is the universal desire on the partkpf
all to be as we'll dressed, to live. tnSas
good style and be as comfortable. and
showily housed as the best of ones
neighbors."
Such is the view of the economic
status of the workingmen of America
in the conception of Justice Simeon
Eben Baldwin, LII. D., of the supreme
court of Connecticut and professorFot
American constitutional law and pri-
yate international law in Yale univer-
sity. A man of much learning, wide
observation and many years of worldly
experience Is Judge Baldwin. He is
deeply interested in his fellow men and
has done much In philanthropics and
charitable way to make living easier
and better for them. A learned jurist,
he Is student of conditions and fear,
less thinker, bold and inclsiye in his
statement of opinions and so well re-
spected that he was recently president
of an international association of law
yers. His essays on law and econom-
les command respect and attention
widely.
1.-THE American workineman has, per-
haps, less need to save money. than one
that belongs to any other class In the
community because-neverm mind wheth-
er the business pays or not-the. EN-
ployee is sure to get his wage" said
Judge Baldwin at his home when
called upon him. His views upon the
economies of working life had been
given partially few days previously
before club of workingmen.
MANY concerns that are making
nothing for their stockholders this year
nevertheless pay wages every Saturday
night to every man in their employ. IL
the concern falls, the hands get their
wages Just the same because the law
makes them preferred In order of pay
| ment Probably that is why the Amer
lean factory operative does not think 1t
| necessary to save much. Still, sickness
| and death are sure to come some day,
| and every sensible man owes 1t to him.
| self and to his wife and children to
make some provision for rainy day
The common method Of saving IL rby
membership in some fraternal .ogder
but unless the order Is recruited con
stantly by young men the order will
come to grief In time II 1t has not I
large reserve fund.
"rhe manner In which it seems to ~,
| the workingman best protects himsel
| is by laying aside regularly part Oi
| his earnings in savings bank. Wher
he has little laid up, he should buy
Inf ho,
pay On until 1t Is clear. That point
having Leon reached, he ought to begin
the building of home, mortgagiDg
again IL need be. If he Is frugal, in ten
or fifteen years he has his home, a
house over his head that he will leave
to his wife and family, Il legacy. not
half so easily used up and SPENT as
would be the proceeds of two or three
death benefits.
"The workingman will ask where. to
get the money to start homo building
with. 1t is easy for any single man to
save something out OF his wages. "a
man earning $3.50 day can save Mt
least % cents every day. IL he does
not use tobacco and beer, he can save
his own house and table, a man who
earns $3.50 day ought not to expect
to live as well as his neighbor who Is
making 50 day. That nelghbor ought
not to spend as much as his shopmate
who earns $3.50.
"That is the trouble with us Ameri-
cans. We are all trying to live rs well
as the men who are making little
more than we are, as well as our neigh
bors and the best of them"
The workingman lives too well for
his own good, says Judge Baldwin.
More In detail he explained:
zone way we spend money In Amer
lea faster than in other countries is on
our tables. The workingman, as well
as the leisure man, eats too much. We
eat q great deal of meat, more than
any other country. The wealthy and
poor eat too much, and neither is any
the healthier for 1t. On the other side
Of the Atlantic nobody thinks of hay
ing anything for breakfast except q
cup OF coffee and little bread, posi-
bly, an egg; half of them not that much.
They have two solid meals for dinner
and supper.
'"The doctors say, and | believe they
are right, that two solid meals q day
are enough for anybody and every
body. OF course the man who works
with his hands needs to eat more and
heartier food than the man who works
with his head only. But fruit and veg
Ii nI of
food, along with bread, for most men.
"Our ancestors, 10000 years ago,
more or less, probably lived in trees,
dining off fruits and vegetables and
what they could pick off the bushes.
We know u good deal more than they
did, but they were a good deal health
Ter and llvelier than we are. l suspect,
and IL we ate more of the same fare
we might be more like them In that
respect.
"rhen, as for our houses and furni-
ture. DR.. Benjamin Franklin used to
say that other peoples eyes were sWhat
ruined us; that we had fine clothessAnd
fine furniture and fine houses because
other people were looking at themnbut
If everybody was blind except a6Qrs
selves we should live very differently!E
"For instance, I wonder howl many
workingmen there are In any city earn.
ing 50 day who have two pairs of lace
curtains in their front windows. By
as many thousands as there are. such
cases are they too many. Theyakeep
out the light in the homes: they botper
the children, who are always wanting
to play with them and are. alwayssbs.
Ing told they. mustn't; they arr. Ways
getting dirty and needing to- be done