Husband sent me this quote the other day, and it’s been on my mind ever since so I thought it was worth sharing with you.

I cannot always sympathize with that demand
which we hear so frequently for cheap things.
Things may be too cheap.
They are too cheap when the man or woman
who produces them upon the farm or
the man or woman who produces them in the factory
does not get out of them living wages with a margin for
old age and for a dowry for the incidents that are to follow.
I pity the man who want s a coat so cheap
that the man or women who produces the cloth
or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process.

-President Benjamin Harrison
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from a speech given in Rutland, Vermont on August 28, 1891
(as reported in the New York Times the following day)

It’s poignant to think that this is as much of a consideration now as it was over a century ago.