The labor union has two difficulties; the first one is that it began to make a labor scale for all classes on par, and they scale down a man that can earn five dollars a day to two and a half a day, in order to level up to him an imbecile that cannot earn fifty cents a day. That is one of the most dangerous and discouraging things for a working man.
Russell H. Conwell - "Acres of Diamonds" (Initially publish in 1890)
