Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-21

lsborers who sre appointed by us as a
committee. l belong 70 TIE new system
ltes.n
You sky that there have been great fall
ures Ia that direction. edmlt IL. Every
great movement AZ the start is failure.
The application pf steam power failures
electFo-telegraphy a failure, railroad
failure, but after awhile the worlds chief
successes. hear some say: "Why, It
Is absurd to talk Of surplus to be put
into this cooperative association, when
men can hardly get enough To- eat aud
wear and take care OF their families" l
reply, Put into my hand the money spent
Ia the last five years in this country by
the laboriDg classes for rum sud tobacco,
and ! will start a cooperative Institution
of monetary power that will surpass any
financial Institution In the United States.
Again: / remark that relief will come
20 the working classes through more
thorough discovery on the part OF en-
ployers that II Is best for them TO let
their employees know Just how matters
stand. The most Of the capt.
talists OF to-day ave making less
than 6 per cent, less than per cent,
less thsu per cent on their Investments.
Here and there Is an anaconda swallow
ing down everything, but such are the
exceptions. IL is often the case that en-
ployes blame their employer because
they suppose he is getting along grandly,
when he Is oppressed to the last point Of
oppression. knew manufacturer who
employed more than thousand hands. |
said to him "Do you ever have any
trouble with your workmenY DO you
have any strikes2" "No," said he.
what In this time of angry discussion
between capital and labor, no trouble?"
"Rone at all--none | said, GLOW Is
thatY" "Well," he said, ~ have way
OF my own. Every little while call my
employees tog, ther,a say, Now, boys
! want TO show you how matters stand.
What you turned out this year brought
so much. You see 1t isn't as much as we
got last year. | can't afford to pay you
as much a. did. Now, you know put
all my means In this business. What do
you think ought TO be my percentage,
and what wages ought pay you? Come,
let us settle this And" said that
manufacturer, ave are always nnani-
nous. When we suffer we all suffer to-
gether. When we advance we advance
together, and my men would die for men
But when a man goes among his en-
ployes with supercilious air, aud drives
up to his factory as though he were the
autocrat of the universe, with the sun
and the moon in his vest pockets, moving
amid the wheels Of the factory, chiefly
anxious lest d creased or smirched hand
should touch his immaculate broadcloth.
he will see at the end 10 has made an
awful mistake, | think that employers
will find out after awhile that IL is to
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plain matters to their employees. You be |
frank with them and they will be frank
with YOU.
Again: | remark, relief will come to
the hboIing classes through the religious
re3titication Of the country. Labor is an. |
preciated aud rewarded Just in proper. |
ton as country Is Cnristanized. WHY |
Is our smallest coin a penny, while in |
China IL takes six or dozeu pieces to |
make one penny. the Chinese carrying in |
his own country the "cash," as It is |
called, around his neck like string of |
oeads, dozen of these pieces necessary
to make the value Of one Of our pennies? |
In this country, for nothing do we want
20 pas less than a penny. In China they |
often have to pay the sixth of penny, or |
the twelfth Of II penny. What Is the diff. |
ierencef Christianity. Show me n
community that is thoroughly infiel,
aud viii show you com.
lnunlty where wages are small. |
snow me community that |
Is thoroughly Christianized, and | will |
showyou u community where wages are
comparatively large. How do | account
Tor ilr The philosophy is easy Our
religion is democratic religion. 1t
makes the owner Of the mill understand
ne Is brother TO all the operatives In that
mlll. Born of the same Heavenly
Father, TO lie down in the same dust IN
be saved by the same supreme mercy. No
putting on OF airs ia the sepulcher or in
the judgment. W ."
An engineer In New England factory
gets sleepy, aud he does not watch the
steam gauge, and there Is Il wild thunder
OF explosion, and the owner of III, min
ana one OF the woIkmen are slain. The
Two slain men come up toward the gate
OF heaven The owner of the millkn0nls
at the gate. The celestial eatekeeper
cries; "Who is THEREOF The reply
comes: " | was the owner Of factory al
ran RIVER where there was an exclusion
Just now, and | lost my life. and I
want to come in" "Why do Won want
to come In, and by what right do Won
come lnr" asks the celestial gatekeener
ION ~ says the man, 81 employed two or
three hundred hands. was great man
~ FAN River" 'You employed two or
lhree hundred men," SAYS the gate.
keeper, but how much Christian grace
llu you employ" "None at all,u saws ,
the owner OF tue mill, "Step back..n t
says the celestial gatekeeper; "no admit.
-ance mere for you" Right after comes
up the poor workman. He knocks at the
Iste' The shining gstekeepen saws.
VINO Is there2p He SAYS: "I am
'oor Workmani | come up from the ex-
noslon IN Fail River; would like to )
ihter, what Is your right to come In
lertF" asks the shining gatekeeper. The /
workman says: 81 heard that shining
messenger came forth from your world 10
'uI Worlu TO redeem it; have been a
'au man used TO swear when | hurt I.
ny hanu WIN the wheel; | used to be
,,uslyi ! nave done great many wrong
nuhssl out confessed 1t all TO the mes
' us. lhat CAME from your country, and
w, w confessed u ne told me to come
~ mere, ana That you may know that |
1--WE "a rlgnt TO come, there Is His name ,
- sne PAIN OF my hand; here is His name
IN my irehcadn Then IN, re is n sonnd
y working pulleys, aud the gates M and
ne Workingman goes in. There was a Z
,ass nihetence between the funerals nj
'all klNer The owner Of the mill had a
'reat funeral The poor worklngman b
.au asmall funeral, The man who came \
Y on ms own pompous resources was n
nut Guy OF heaven. The poormsn, trust /
ny IN the grace OF the Lord Jesus Christ /,
inferred heaven. ''''' ,
s a" yuu see u Is a democratic religion h
W nae care now much money you have, i
GU have not enough money 10 INV von, \
'ay through the gate, | donot ear. bo,,,