five o'clock
Capitalists , who had reared in the village below us a huge stone mill designed for the manufacture of woolens , had made advances which he did not meet as desired , for their system of operating was disloyal , he said , to all true justice , encroaching , as it did , upon the liberties of a class largely represented in this , as well as in all other towns . Three gentlemen , who represented the main interests , called on Louis , and he expressed to them what seemed to him to be the truth regarding this , and said : `` The years to come will be replete with suffering , and vice , degradation , and misery are sure to follow in the steps you are taking . I do not say that you realize this , but if you will think of it as I have , you can not fail to reach the same conclusion . You cause to be rung a morning bell at five o'clock , that rouses not only men from their slumbers , but the little growing children who need their unbroken morning dreams . These children must work all day in the close and stifling rooms of your mill . Their tender life must feel the daily dropping seed of disease , and with each recurring nightfall , overworked bodies fall into a heavy slumber , instead of slipping gradually over into the realm of peace . The mothers and fathers of these children suffer in this strife for daily bread .