POINTS TO PONDER XXXV

From Reader's Digest
Samuel Gompers, founder of the U.S. labor movement

   Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare of the workers depends upon their own initiative. Whatever is done under the guise of philanthropy or social morality which in any way lessens initiative is the greatest crime that can be committed against the toilers.