As a matter of fact, his income has begun to increase. In a few years, the practice of honesty and justice on a scale that makes it impossible for the dishonest and the unjust to crush him, results in his having a vaster fortune than ever. Everything he touches turns to gold. In his main enterprise, the policy of low prices, honest wares and high wages causes business to flow in and to more than make up for the old profits lost by the abolition of the short-sighted tyrannies and monopolistic, pound-foolish, penny-wise policies. His tenements pay; his department stores can’t take care of the business offered; his street-car lines are crowded. The old business principle, time-honored, was: “Raise prices as the demand increases.” He acts on the new, the scientific business principle: “Lower prices as demand increases. Don’t kill that which you have been striving to create. Foster demand.” At first he was called a “well-meaning but wildly mistaken philanthropist.” Now he is called a shrewder business man than his father. Like his father, he is hated and envied by all the rich-but-not-so-rich. And, sad yet amusing to relate, he is profoundly suspected by those whom he is striving to benefit. Such few friends as he has left bring this to his attention. “What’s the use?” they say. “Look at the ingrates. If you had stolen ten millions from them and given back a hundred thousand in charity they would have cheered you to the echo. You pamper them, and they turn on you. If there was to be a revolution to-morrow your head would be the first to go off.” What does the young man reply? He might invite them to note the fact that he is making more money than his father did and is at least escaping the odium of being regarded as a hypocrite. But he does not. He is a peculiar young man. He simply smiles. “I am in business to please one customer first of all,” says he. “That customer is myself. What does it matter to me what other people think of me? I don’t have to live with them. But I do have to live with myself.” And he orders further reductions of prices, and further increases of wages, buys more street-car lines, builds more tenements, opens a half dozen other big stores. To supply these stores with meat, eggs, butter, vegetables, et cetera, he starts in the neighborhood of each of his cities and towns huge farms, to which he sends boys and girls as apprentices to learn the farming business. And he engages to set up in the farming business each boy or girl who works well. Those who cannot be got in love with farming are to have first call on the lower positions in his various manufacturing and distributing enterprises.