The Evening Bulletin

Do Americans Work Too Hard?
It is said that the American people work harder to obtain the "almighty dollar" than any other people or nation in the world, while they are more lavish in spending when they get it. This may be true or not, but they certainly get more dollars for the same work than any other people, and they are not generally penurious in spending them for their own comfort and pleasure, or mean in appropriating them for charity and all good works.
It is certainly true, also, that many professional and business men, lawyers doctors, merchants, etc., including some public officials, especially in our large cities, work too hard and destroy their health, by both mental and physical exertion, protracted for too long a time without proper recreation. The workingmen and laboring classes also complain of working too hard, and the great questions of the day are those of "labor and wages," which claim attention through "strikes," labor organizations, socialistic and anarchical demonstrations.
The question, "Do Americans work too hard?" requires a distinction to be made between natives and foreigners who form so large a portion of the population of the United States. Foreigners principally perform what is considered the hardest work, building railroads, mining coal, and other laborious employment, and whether they work too hard, in fact, or harder than Americans generally in other occupations, is a question which might be considered by itself. They probably do not work harder in this than in their own country or they would not continue to come here in such large numbers. Both Americans and foreigners, however, will probably claim that they have to work "too hard."—City Comptroller Loew in The Epoch.