"
The unfailing question of the Altrurian broke the silence which ensued:
"Are there many of your working-men who are intelligent and agreeable--of
the type you mentioned a moment since?"
"Perhaps," said the banker, "I had better refer you to one of our friends
here, who has had a great deal more to do with them than I have. He is a
manufacturer, and he has had to do with all kinds of work-people."
"Yes, for my sins," the manufacturer assented; and he added: "They are
often confoundedly intelligent, though I haven't often found them very
agreeable, either in their tone of mind or their original way of looking
at things."
The banker amiably acknowledged his thrust, and the Altrurian asked: "Ah,
they are opposed to your own?"
"Well, we have the same trouble here that you must have heard of in
England. As you know now that the conditions are the same here, you won't
be surprised at the fact."
"But the conditions," the Altrurian pursued--"do you expect them always to
continue the same?"
"Well, I don't know," said the manufacturer. "We can't expect them to
change of themselves, and I shouldn't know how to change them.
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