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Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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ngpractically no connection with rural life.If you are from the South, or the MiddleWest, you will wonder, perhaps, at thehigh fences with locked gates that enclosethe big textile mills. This custom of lock-ing workmen in, and locking the rest of theworld out, adapted from the textile dis-tricts of the Old World, has not yet foundits way West or South to any extent. Youwill see a few of these mill barricades in atmosphere that made it seem a degrada-tion, and the West would probably regardthe locked gates and the factory high fencesin much the same way that it regards thewearing of livery. On the other hand, there has been littlein the West and South of that developmentof benevolent paternalism, expressed in whatis called welfare work among factory hands,that is common in Rhode Island. Many ofthe larger manufacturing companies, in wool-lens, cotton, and metals, have gone far be-yond the letter of the States requirementsin providing clean and comfortable shops, 140 NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE
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Colonel Samuel Pomeroy Colt, president of the Industrial Trust Company and the United StatesRubber Company, banker, politician, and lawyer, who failed to succeed Mr. Wet-more as United States Senator from Rhode Island and in assisting their employees to broadenand brighten their social life. Perhaps oneof the chief factors in the success of RhodeIslands manufactures, aside from the in-ventive and constructive genius of the menthat built them up, has been the employ-ers intelligent recognition of the fact that the most profitable employee is a con-tented one. Doubtless this general policyexplains, also, the tendency of the most in-telligent mechanics coming here fromabroad to seek employment in RhodeIsland. Wages in the factories of Rhode Island WHAT S THE MATTER WITH RHODE ISLAND ? 141 compare favorably with those in like linesin the rest of New England. They are nothigh, as compared with wages in the West,but the West has few cotton or woollenmills, and none comparable in size withth

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