Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... EMPLOYMENT, ITS CONNECTION WITH' INDUSTRIAL DUTY. CHAPTER V., SECTION III. In addressing the term duty, in its industrial sense, to a person or class of community, it is to be assumed that the person or class addressed have been recipients of values, which, if they hold by any admissible tenure, they hold first for their own use, and second from, or for the use of others; that they are the executors, probably, the self constituted executors of an implied contract existing either between themselves and another party, or, between two other parties; and that the values in their possession after use has been secured to themselves, ought, in justice, through execution of fiduciary trusts, be passed to others. Most that is to be said concerning industrial duties is of necessity addressed to those who through priority, power or purchase have secured exclusive ownership or control of the natural and created sources of those commodities which are required to supply the wants and give effectiveness to the efforts of the human race. Being in possession of that which has been created, either through natural or social development, for the benefit of mankind, it is due from them, in some forms and adequate quantities to their fellow men. The consideration that such dues are not recognized as of binding force; that, of nature's resources, what men get, they imagine themselves entitled to keep, whether they are to them of utility or not, and whether they would or would not be of utility to others, renders it the more necessary that the truth should be repeatedly emphasized. To be impressed with the idea of industrial duty, is of the more imperative importance, inasmuch as those who now conduct the industrial enterprises of the world, are inheritors of a...
