Excerpt from Report of Proceedings of the American Mining Congress: Sixteenth Annual Session, Philadelphia, Pa; October 20-24, 1913

From this source, I believe, has sprang power ir the world of com merce; for in every age, and in every country, quality has counted, does count, and will continue to count as a commercial factor. Many of our largest producers market their products in from sixty to ninety different countries beyond the limits of the United States and in many cases they have been so marketing their product through three to four generations of propri etors, in some cases their products selling at prices 100 per cent. Higher than the price asked by an unsuccessful rival manufacturer in any other country and endeavoring to compete for the same trade.

We count in Philadelphia one of our great benefits, one of our largest assets, a certain love of life and a certain contentment with existing condi tions characteristic of the great body of our labor. We had one large strike a few years ago, in which men were for a time out of employment. Disorder was threatened, but the net result showed a property loss of less than 250 thousand dollars - not more than an ordinary fire. In 1877, return ing from Colorado, I was held up in Pittsburgh and saw five million dollars' worth of property destroyed within three days. This is not spoken in condemnation of Pittsburgh, nor in praise of Philadelphia, but as a broad indication that times and sentiments in 1912 are far in advance of what they were in 1877. But in Philadelphia we have the habit of keeping our heads. With the great majority the rule is to do the right thing without expecting immediate repayment from the Great Power that rules.

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