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work for the Poles and “Hunkies” in Buffalo. He wouldn't blame the steel company exactly, but this was where the gentleman's concept of what ought to be done in life came in to obscure for him the modern operation of industry. He saw an employer as a man, not as a company. He assumed him to be a human being, a man in the full sense, a gentleman probably. If he wasn't a gentleman, he ought to be a gentleman. A gentleman ought not to take everything for himself. A gentleman, if he saw the people who depended on him for a living, not able to get a living, should give up some of his own privileges and some of his own profits and some of his own comforts in order that some of the others who are dependent on this same farm, let's say, same semi-agricultural, semi-industrial estate, may have something.

There are examples, of course, of English gentleman who have done that. When one of them was depending upon an estate upon which there were also forty families of tenants depending, if the crops went wrong or the sleet storm came at the wrong time, the gentleman who ran the estate had other sources of income, but also he had a lot of blankets, a lot of food and a lot of other things, and he took it for granted that it was his duty to distribute those.

That's the way Roosevelt thought of the Lackawanna