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(11-28-2014 09:09 PM)Linda Anderson Wrote:  Emerson goes on to say that, "While Abraham Lincoln clearly was a champion of labor, Robert Lincoln was clearly a champion of big business."

Another author agrees. In his biography of Robert John S. Goff writes, "One may presume that he (Robert Lincoln) was in agreement with Pullman's stand since he was close to Pullman during this time."

Goff adds that Robert only wrote something on the relationship of employer and employee on one occasion. This was in relation to the issue of workmen's compensation. In a letter to Charles L. Strobel dated November 14, 1907, Robert wrote:

"I may agree that the State must not permit to starve a worthy man of his working class, but I am not moralized up to the point of thinking it right that if my chauffeur at $90 a month who calls himself skilled, is injured by his lack of skill (not "carelessness") in his first week, I may have to pay him $45 a month for the rest of his life. It is true that the accident had caused a loss, but should I (guiltless) stand it all? If the answer is that insurance is cheap, why could not the employee pay this insurance himself, as I do for myself."