But these Irish and Germans and Swedes and Danes, and all that low class, do smell so,--you needn't tell me, now!--that working-class smell is a thing that can't be disguised." "But, Lillie, these are our people.

They are the laborers from whose toils our wealth comes; and we owe them something." "Well! you pay them something, don't you ?" "I mean morally.

We owe our efforts to instruct their children, and to elevate and guide them.

Lillie, I feel that it is wrong for us to use wealth merely as a means of self-gratification.

We ought to labor for those who labor for us.