St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-06-20

great expense here. Now, what shall
do? / hate to close up and throw you out
of employment, for you have been very
faithful, and I like you, and you seem to
like me, and you have families to support,
and the BARNS must be taken care off, and
the wife must have new dress before
long, What shall I do?" Silence for a
minute or two, and then one of the work
men steps a little forward from the others
and says: "Boss, you have been good to US.
When you prospered we prospered. Now,
when you are hard pressed, propose
open, we throw off twenty per cent. of our
wages, and as soon as things get better
you will remember US. Boys, all in
favor of my motion viii say ayeP' "AyeW
"AyeD shout two hundred voices. After
a while the manufacturer, while gettinggin
some new machinery, takes cold, and
falls sick of the pneumonia. In the pro-
cession to the tomb are the workmen, with
sad faces, the tears running clear down
the cheek and off on the ground, and their
wives and children have been waiting an
hour at the open grave in the cemetery for
the arrival of the funeral pageant. The
minister may have delivered eloquent eu-
logium, but the most impressive utterances
are by the working classes who stand
around the last resting place: "Dear me,
is it not sad?" "How good he was to US
allv' We shall never have so kind a
friend again" "Don't you remember
when our Charlie died he sent his carriage
to take US to the gravel" sob, is it not
dreadful for his wife and children? God
pity them!" And that night in all the
cabins where the toilers have family
prayers the widowhood and orphanage up
in the mansion are remembered. No irate
population scowling through the iron fence
of the cemetery, but lowering over all the
scene the benediction of God and man.
Whatsoever We would that men should
do to you, do ye even so to them"
WHERE CHARITY BEGINS.
'sOh,n you say, "that is Area dian,
apocryphal, impossible" No. can take
you to the storehouses, the factories, the
mines, the great enterprises where this
Christly rule is practiced, and you could
no more get the employer to impose on his
men, or the men to conspire against their
employer, than you could get your right
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your left eye, or right ear and left ear into
physiological antagonism. The place TO
begin is in our own homes and in our own
store-houses, and in our own banks and on
our own farms, and in our own factories,
not waiting for others to do their duty.
Are your parlor and kitchen at divergence?
Then there is something wrong either
about the parlor or the kitchen. Are the
clerks of your store out of patience with
the firm? Then there is something wrong
either at the counter or in the private Of
fee. What the world wants most griev-
ously, wants to-day and wants every
where, is the golden rule that Christ pro-
mulgated in his sermon Olivetic. AL the
political economists under the archivault
of the heavens in convention for a thou
sand years will never silence this mad
dened controversy between fist and brain,
between operative and monopolist.
GIVING LIFT.
During the Revolutionary war piece of
heavy timber was being raised for army
purposes, and a Corporal was overseeing
it done, shouting to the men who were
lifting: "Heave away? Yo, feavew A
horseman riding along said to him: ''Why
don't you lay hold yourself and help those
men lift? 1t is more than they can do"
ooh, "replied the officer, 81 am Corporalw
Then the man on horseback dismounted
and laid hold of the timber and lifted with
all his might. The work done, the man
said: Corporal, when you have not men
enough to attend to job like that send
for your Commander in Chief" Tt was
Washington! Oh, let US give each other
lift!
You say the law of supply and de mand
will control every thing to the end of
time. No, it will not unless God dies
and the batteries of the judgment are
piked and the throne of the universes
is taken by Pluto and Proserpine,
the King and Queen of the internal
world. Supply and demand have Joined
partnership and put their wits together
to rob the world. You are drowning, and
they stand on the shore beside the only
boat and say: "Pay what we ask or go to
the bottom!n You are failing in business
for the lack of five thousand dollars. They
say: "Pay us usury or become bankruptW
This roober firm Of Supply g. Demand
says: "The wheat crop is short, and We
have bought it up and put it in our bin.
Pay our price or starYe!" Supply &c De-
mand own the largest 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 red
den all the valleys as the grinding goes on.
As sure as the ages roll toward millennial
release that diabolic firm viii have to step
aside for the law of love, the law of CO.
operation, the law of mercy, the law of
Christ.
LISTENING.
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