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home for his family. . . . And a land which does not pro- 
vide for the possibilities of that family’s self-support, in its 
laws and economics, and enforce those possibilities by a 
vigorous common sentiment should not call itself a Christian 
land. 
We want, therefore, the highest and noblest estate for our 
fellow workers who labor for wage. It should be inculcated 
as a common sentiment, not as a concession and in no form 
of a charity. It must be arranged so that it is a right, as 
much as the right to trade at a profit, and to manufacture, 
and to build, and to invest for legitimate gain. 
JOHN D. WORKS, FORMERLY JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME 
COURT OF CALIFORNIA, AND UNITED 
STATES SENATOR! 
If this class (the wage-earners) of our people were paid 
fair wages, living wages; were furnished with healthful and 
comfortable places in which to work, and were provided with 
sanitary places in which to live when the day’s work is over, 
it would regenerate thousands of them. . . . 
The world owes them an opportunity to make a living and 
the right to live respectably. . . . 
OTTO H. KAHN, BANKER AND PHILANTHROPIST? 
The principle on which one should deal with the labor 
juestion is very simple. It is the principle of the Golden 
Rule. TI think the formula should be that, first of all, labor 
is entitled to a living wage. After that, capital is entitled 
to a living wage. What is left over belongs to both capital 
and labor, in such proportion as fairness and equity and 
reason shall determine in all cases. . . . 
The worker must receive a wage which not only permits 
him to keep body and soul together, but to lay something by 
for a rainy day, to take care of his wife and children, and 
1 “Man’s Duty to Man,” Neale Publishing Company, 1919, p. 53. 
WL Civic Federation Review, May 15, 1919. “Labor and the Golden