St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-01

man, anu Will llOt dCU do tlOuSH lily elI-
ployer were an enemy, ana will do my
duty among these wheels as we'll as though
I were ND in the counting-room among the
ledgers" The iron manufacturer having
taken a dose of my test before he left home
in the morning, is walking through the
foundry and passing through the ''puddling
rooln,'' where are the men, besweated and
stripped to the waist, the employer says:
Good morning, Donald; you look uncom-
Portable in this heat. | hear your child is
sick with the scarlet fever. If you want to
draw your wages little early this week to
buy medicines and pay the nurse, just come
into my office" Passing along into the
''finishing ROOM he sees a young man very
white and pallid and hardly able to stand
up to his work, and the employer says: 81
guess YOU don't feel very well to-day; better
rest little once in while What are YOU
taking for this illness? Call at, my house
| tonight and l will give you vial of medi-
cine that will set you right up.n ''Thank
yOll,' saws the workman, as he esweeps his
arm across his forehead, taking off the
beads of sweat, for God knows he is more
tit to be in bed than there.
After while crash goes the money mar
ket and the demand for manufactured
goods ceases, and the question is whether to
SHUT UP THE MILL
or to run on half time or to lower the
wages. The boss calls all his hands to-
gether. They stand around him wondering
what he is going to do. He says: Men.
the times are hard, the deraand for our
work is very small. Where fused to make
a hundred dollars 1 don't make twenty, you
see I am under great expense here, now
what shall l do. | hate to close up and
throw you out of employment, for you have
been very faithful and 1 like you and you
seem to like me, and you have families to
support and the BARNS must be taken care
of and the wife must have new dress be-
fOre long. What shall do?" Silence for a
minute or two and then one of the
workmen steps little forward from
the others and says: Boss you have
been good to u.s. When you prospered we
prospered. Now, when you are hard
pressed l propose that if you will keep the
place open we will throw off 90 per cent. of
our wages and as soon as times get better
you will remember us. Boys, all in favor
of my motion say aye" '.Aye! Ayew
shouts two hundred voices.
'.Oh," you say, ''that is arcadian, apo
cryphal, impossible" No; can take you
to the warehouses, the factories, the mines,
the
GREAT ENTERPRISES.
where this Christly rule is practiced and
you could no more get the employer to inn
pose OH his men, or the men to conspire
against their employer. than you could get
your right hand and left hand, or your right
eye and your left eye, or your right ear
and your left ear, into physiological antag-
onism. The place to begin is in our own
home and IN our own storehOuses and in our
own banks and on our own farms and in
our own factories, not waiting for others to
do their duty.
You say the law of supply and demand
will control everything to the end of time.
No; it will not unless God dies and the bat
teries of the Judgment are spiked and the
throne of the universe is taken by Pluto
and Proserpine, the king and queen of the
internal world. Supply and demand have
joined partnership and put their wits to-
gether to rob the world. You are drown
ing and they stand OH the shore beside the
only boat and say: "Pay what we ask or
go to the bottoni'' You are failing in busi-
ness for lack of S., 900. They say: PAY
us usury or become bankruptw
THIS RoBBER FIRM
of supply and demand says: ssThe wheat
crop is short and we bought it up and put
it in our bin. Pay our price or starve!"
Supply and demand own tne iasgest mill on
earth, and it rolls over its wheel all the
rivers, and puts into its hopper as many
men, women and children as it can scoop
up out of the centuries and their blood and
bones, ridden all the villages as the grind
ing goes ON. AS sure as the ages roll to-
ward millennial release, that diabOlical firm
will have to step aside for the law of love,
the law Of cooperation, the law of mercy,
the law of Christ.
AS that law takes sway you will see more
men consecrating their life to humanitarian
and evangelical purposes, like James Len
nox and William E. Dodge and Peter
Cooper and George Peabody. More parks
and gardens and picture galleries will be
opened for the peoples holidays. The
pallor will go out of the cheeks of the
workman and the frown off his brow and
the gnashing out of his teeth. That day
will surely come.