Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . YOUNG AMERICA AT iLAY THE GOLD AND SILVER EMPLOYEES 325. Photo hy Underwood & Underwood HINDOO MERCHANTS AT A ZONE TOWN Latin-Americans generally were accustomed to dotheir monetary thinking in terms of silver all daylabor might be put on the silver pay roll; the morehighly paid workers on a gold pay roll. Thence-forward the metal line rather than the color linewas drawn. The latter indeed would have beendifficult as the Latin-American peoples never drewit very definitely in their marital relations, with theresult that a sort of twilight zone made
Panama and the canal in picture and prose .. . YOUNG AMERICA AT iLAY THE GOLD AND SILVER EMPLOYEES 325. Photo hy Underwood & Underwood HINDOO MERCHANTS AT A ZONE TOWN Latin-Americans generally were accustomed to dotheir monetary thinking in terms of silver all daylabor might be put on the silver pay roll; the morehighly paid workers on a gold pay roll. Thence-forward the metal line rather than the color linewas drawn. The latter indeed would have beendifficult as the Latin-American peoples never drewit very definitely in their marital relations, with theresult that a sort of twilight zone made any verypositive differentiation between whites and blackspractically impossible. So despite Bobby Burnshistoric dictum— the gowd is but the guineas stampThe mans the man for a that, on the Zone the man is silver or gold according tothe nature of his work and the size of his gold employees there were in 1913, 5362, ofsilver 31,298, so it is easy to see which pay rollbore the names of the aristocracy. Practically all of the gold force are is for them, in the main, that t
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