The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-05-27

eve cursinE the hand. want il under
stood that the lsborsrs are the hiFhess
style Of capitalists where is their in
vestment' In the bank No. In railroad
stock. No. Their muscles, their nerves,
their bones. their mechanical skill, their
physical health. are the highest kind u
capital. The man that has two feet, and
two ears. and two eyes, ana ter hnFefs,
owns q machinery that puts into nothing.
Tess Corliss' engine and all the railroad
rolling stock. and al the carpet. and
screw, and cotton factories on the planet
wave the faE Of truce this m-TninE Be.
tween these contestants | demand ces-
sat-n Of hosfilTtiss between iaiu- and
capital What j. gooi f1r ,ns Is good for
10th WLs; i bad t1- one : t.Si :1- '-o'h.
Again. Relief - 10 some = the work NJ
classes Ct This country through c. rp-~a-
tive association. I AN not now referring
q trades unions. We nav hereafter Dis
cass tbs; question. Bat ! refer - that
plan BY which laborzrs become their 7wa
capitalist tax ~ their SURPRISES 81 ] p1:-
ting them toEethe- sd csrryi1: On great
enterprises. In Engiani aud Ws.=s here
are - cooperative Assocla'. -. With
o.. doing Is ress in orc ysAr . tbs
amount Of SEQ ~. In Troy, V. Y,
there ~asa cr-oyersti7e ircn f,lniry as
ISOLATION. Il WORKED vel long sD5IEh %
give Al idea q what could Be accom-
Vlished ~hen the experiment i= fully -
velopei. Thomas Brssssv, one q frs
frs: q ths E-El 81 Ps-l!ansn:. is-lar@d:
'Co-ope-stl-r = the one and 5nlv solution
q tbs question, lis the sole pa.a ~
which ths lsbor.ng -lAss-s a. whole. Or
Anv large number Of them. viii ever
emerge from tie hs1i-to-rnoa'h mode 81
living zn1 E=i Ter share z ne rewards
AMI hcL-rs = or advanced civilization
Thomas Huzass the atlesf snf TIE most
brilliant friend = TIE wo-k.nzm-n: Lord
Derby. John S'=zAr- " i. men vho gave
hslt their lifetime = re study 81 thIs
quest. n. al favor cooperative associA.
TIN.
AEsu r=msrk TIA: relief viii come
= i1- -orE5-C classes through more thor
ugh discovery q the part o. employer
g a. Z Is rs. f. them q let Their employ
IS know j1st low matters stand The most
@. 'h4 -spits'is.s Il today are making
less thar 81 PEI cant. less than FIVE per
cent, less :1s- fur Per cent. on their in
vsstn MS. Here sud there ia sn snaconda
swallowing town every thing. tut such
are the exceptions. Il Is often the csse
TIA: employees lame their employer be-
cause REV suppose he is getting along
grand : when e = oppressed 70 me last
point u oppression. knew q manufa tur.
- who employed more than q thousand
hands I ssfi N him.
DO YOU ever have any troutl= with
vo1r vorgmen' Do you have any strikes"
No" he said.
What in this time Of angry Discus
sion between capital and labor, no
tro1 L."
None a. all-nrne."
said: How : that"
We'll" be SAID. II have way Of my
own Every little while I cal. my en-.
ployss together. ami l say: Now, boys,
! wan: . show you how matters s'sni.
What you turned out this year broa :ht
me 50 much You see il isn't as
much as We got last year. l can't
afford % pay you as much as l did.
Now, you know put all my means in this
business. What DO you think ought 70 be
my percentage, and what wages ought
- pay you. Come, let Us settle this
AMI" said the manufacture, I'VE SIR ALE
ways unanimous. When We suffer ve all
suffer together. When we advance. we
advance together, and my men would die
for me"
But when a man goes among his en-
ployes with a supercilious air. and drives
up 70 his factory as though be were the
autocTat Of TIE universe. with the sun and
the moon in his vest pockets, moviHg amid
the wheels ot the factory, chiefly anxious
lest a grease, or smirched hand should
touch his immaculate broadclo.h. he viii
see al the end re has made an awful mis-
take. think that employers will int ont
after while that il is 20 their interest, as
far as possible, to explain matters % their
employees. You be frank with them, and
they viii be frank with you.
Again: remark, relief will come 10 the
tailoring classes through the r-li kious rec
tiAcation Of the country. Labor is appre-
ciated and rewarded Just in proper ion as
a country is Christianized. Why is our
smallest coin penny, while in Chipa it
takes six or dozen pieces to make one
penny. the Chinese carrying in his own
country the cash" as it is called. around
his neck like string of beads, dozen of
these pieces necessary TO make the value
Of one OF our pennies? In this country for
nothing do we want TO pay less than a
penny. In China they often have 10 pay
the sixth Of a penny, or the twelfth of q
penny What is the difference! Chris
tianity. Show me a community that is
thoroughly infidel and / will show you a
community where wages are small. Show
me a community that is thoroughly
Christianized and / will show you
a community where wages are compare.
lively large. How do | account for itt
The philosophy is easy. Our religion is .
democratic religion. 1t makes the owner
all the operatives in that mill. Born of the
same Heavenly Father, 70 lie down in the
same dust, 20 be saved by the same su-
preme mercy. No putting on If airs in the
sepulcher or In the iudgmen.. do not
care how much money you have. you have
not enough money to buy your way through
the gate. | do not care bow poor you are
if you tave the grace of God in your heart
no one can keep you out. If the
shining gate-keeper, smitten by some
injustice, should try 10 keep you
out, all Heaven would fly from
their thrones, and they would cry:
Let him in! Let him I'M" NY friends,
you need to saturate our population " tn
the religion of Christ, and wages will be
larger, employers will be more considerable,
all the tides of thrift will set II. have
the highest authority for saying that BUSH
ness ia profitable for the life that now ia
1t pays for the employer. II pays for the
employe. fine religion of Christ comes
out to rectify all the wrongs of the world,