The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.
Leland StanfordThe employee is regarded by the employer merely in the light of his value as an operative. His productive capacity alone is taken into account.
Leland StanfordIn a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed.
Leland StanfordThe seeming antagonism between capital and labor is the result of deceptive appearance.
Leland Stanford