Portraits of Eminent Americans Now Living : With Biographical And Historical Memoirs of Their Lives And Actions V.1
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He keeps his own books ; has no bustle on days of settlement ; never ban- ters in trade ; learns the state of the market ; sets his price, or makes his offer, and there the matter ends. He is never in a hurry — always has time to be sociable with his friends. Persons in his employ are ever strongly attached to him, and this too notwithstanding his independent, and sometimes even blunt mode of dealing with them. His principal workmen have been in his employ from nine to eighteen years. It is a r...are thing for a family to leave his village. His ease gives proof experimental that there is no necessity for that want of sympathy between the capitalist and his workmen so often discoverable. Mr. S. makes no effort. at display and equipage above that of an ordinary common-sense man. His native independ- ence renders him incapable of using any undue influence to secure pre- ferment. He feels, to use his own language, " that the public can dis- cern a man's character and worth by his general course of life, and will be likely to deal with him accordingly." Connected with his manufac- turing establishment he has a small farming business, which he feels to be more congenial to his inclination, and to which, if more would turn their attention, he thinks it would be better for the community.
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