The Gibson Upright by Booth Tarkington
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remarkable is your staying away from watching the glorious work these
former hireling workmen of your factory are doing, now they've won their industrial freedom. Myself, I've taken rooms near by: I started to do one article; now I have a series. And oh, the glory of watching these comrades with their economic shackles off! Haven't you heard anything of our success? GIBSON: Only a word from my housemaid. MIFFLIN [_delightedly, pinning him_]: Aha! There! What did she say? "Only a word"; but what was IT? GIBSON: It indicated--prosperity. MIFFLIN: Ah! Immense prosperity, didn't it? GIBSON: I suppose so. Success, at any rate. MIFFLIN: Success? It's so magnificent that now it's inevitable for every factory of every kind all over this country. GIBSON: All over the country? MIFFLIN: Not only all over this country! The world must do it. Ah, they've done it in a country larger than this already! And these comrades right here are showing our country what it means. I don't begrudge you some credit for having begun it, Mr. Gibson. But you only anticipated what all owners everywhere are going to have to do before the workmen simply _take_ the factories. They're going to take them because they have the inherent right; and they're going to take them |
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