Custer County Republican. (Broken Bow, Neb.) 1882-1921, 1907-03-28

Yes, sir; people ike 10 deal Win
concerns that treat their men right"
concluded the railroad man.
We'll this conversation all seems
very strange to me. gentlemen, AMI
very familiar" began the hat sales
man. Strange because Of coinci-
dence; familiar because last night /
had dream which will tell you.
saIcsman's Dream.
81 dreamed that two men came into
my room and said Young man, we
have como here to ask you to do a
very strange thing Well, what is
it?' | asked. We each wish to give
you half a million dollars which you
shall use in the way that will do the
most good. | myself have given away
many millions Of dollars. ! have en-
dowed few colleges and have given
money to build library in every COM
munity where they have asked for 1t.
Still, the newspapers say that l am a
hard man
And l., spoke up the other
many millions of dollars for education
and yet these same newspapers say
that it is tainted money Now, what
we wish you to do is to take this mil.
lion dollars-here it is and do with
it that thing which you decide will ac-
complish the greatest good Without
saying another word, the two strange
visitors left my room and closed the
door, leaving the million in two-thou.
sand dollar bills upon my table.
This is a strange situation for a,
| poor hustler like me to be in" l
thought, but here the money is left
with me- What shall do with it? ]
universities-that's cinch-because
my two strange visitors have tried
this and are still roasted by the
newspapers. l don't exactly believe 1t
would be right to them or fair to tha
people to whom | gave it IL / stood
| down on the street corner and hand;
ed out hundred or thousand to,
everyone who came along until it was
all gone. I'll start big hat factory,
said l, and I'm going to start II on this
basis:
Instead of building factory in a
smoky city on dusty, murky street,
III 60 out to suburban town and
build it where l can have grass and
| trees around 1t. | shall keep it clean
and hang beautiful pictures on the
walls that will inspire my workmen.
shall build a hospital and library and
a clubhouse, and homes for my work.
men. | shall see, too, that my workers
are made happy by having something
uplifting to do during their hours of lels-
ure. do not see why some of them may
not be students and others teachers.
do not see why they should not organize
an orchestra and a choral society, or
the young women study music and
learn to paint, and do other pleasant
things during the hours that they
might otherwise waste. And dreamed
that all this could be done very easily
1T seems to me- | thought, that
would not be giving my workers
their full and just dues when | DID
nothing more than pay them sheir
weekly wages. | WILL l resolved pay
myself a reasonable interest, four per
cent, upon my million dollars. Then
will take the rest of the earnings and
divide 1t. | will take half because my
capital is worth something-capital be-
ing accumulated labor-5and the other
half l will distribute among those who
worked for me in proportion to what
each one has earned
His Vision Realized.
my dream did not end here, for Just
before | awoke. with the sun shining
in my face, saw little colony that I
had built after | had been running nv
factory for ten years. My business mad
grown so great that | had built add
ton after addition to my plant. My
workers all had good, comfortable
homes; they dressed well; were con-
tented, intelligent, progressive and
some of them were accomplished. The
children skipping ropes in our little
park were clean and happy A few Of
the very old men, who had grown too
old to work sat on benches looking at
the little ones and speaking with graf
itude of the pensions that made them
comfortable. Ivy vines grew over the
tr ck walls of my factory and big sleek
forses pulled heavy loads of cases to-
ward the freight houses"
While this one man had told his
dream all those who sat around the
taDle looked straight at MIN, Listening
intently. For moment after he had
quit speaking, all were quiet until the
hat manufactures said to his salesman.
well, let us hope that your dream
may come true! It's made of the right
stuff"