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wars, or the Spanish-American War, for all I know, and he could speak Spanish, which was a great advantage to him because he could talk with these people.

The proclamation read something as follows.

PROCLAMATION: I, Pelham J. Glassford, General of the United States, Representative of the Department of Labor of the United States, do hereby established the following minimum wages to be paid in this valley:

Then he establish them. Where did he get his statistics? He made them up in this head. He knew what was right. By this time he had figured, as he once said to me, “as any good and honest man could figure” what was about right, what the farmer could probably pay, what the man had to have to live. That was what the wage was. He said, “Nothing very complicated about that. I didn't need any statisticians.” He just decided what the wage ought to be. He stood on the steps of the courthouse in the town where he happened to be and read this proclamation to a multitude that had assembled - a multitude for the place, a very small community.

All this was greeted, of course, with utter respect, with open-mouthed wonder, a curious delight, on the part of a good many people in addition to the agricultural workers, that somebody had done something. They were glad that the