The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-06-09

solve society. Look over your affairs and
put yourselves in Imagination in your la.
borer's place, and then pay him what be.
fore God and your own conscience you
ought to pay him.
Do not be too ready to cut down wages.
As far as possible pay all, and pay
promptly. There is great deal Of Bible
teaching on this subject.
will be a swift witness against all sor.
cerers, and against all adulterers, and
against those who Cypress the hireling in his
wages.-Malachi
Thou shalt not keep the wages OF the hire.
ling all night unto the neutrality-suspicious..
Masters, give unto your servants that
which Is just and equal, knowing tn At ye
also have Master in Heaven.-Colossians
So you see It 10 not cuestion between
you and your employee SO much as 1t is
question between you and your God. Do
not say to your employees, snow, II you
don't like this place get another" when
you know they can not get another. AS
far as possible once year visit at their
ZONES. your clerks and your workmen.
That Is the only way you can become &C.
quainted with their wants. You will by
such process find out that there ia blind
parent or sick sister being supported.
You will find some Of your young men in
rooms without any fire in winter, and in
summer sweltering In ILL., ventilated apart
ments. You will find how much depends
on the wages you paw or withhold. On
Saturday morning, wnAn you come into
your counting room and draw the check
which will bring the money for the wages
on the salaries, you will have a thrill of
satisfaction in knowing it is not only the
money you give to the young man, but the
relief to the dire necessities which stand
back of him.
Moreover, it Is your duty as employer,
as far as possible, to mold the welfare Of
the employee. You ought to advise him
about investments, about life insur.
ance, about savings banks. You ought
to give him the benefit of your ex-
perience. There are hundreds and thou
sands Of employers in this country
and England, am glad to say, who are
settling in the very best possible way
the destiny of their employees. Such men
as Marshall, of Leeds; Fister, Of Brad
ford; Akroyd, Of Halifax, and men so
near at home it might offend their mod
esty II mentioned their names. These
men have built reading -rooms, libraries,
concert halls, afforded croquet lawns,
cricket grounds, gymnasiums, choral So
cieties for their employees, and they have
not merely paid the wages on Saturday
night, but through the contentment and
the thrift and the good morals of their
employees, they are paying wages from
generation to generation forever.
Again, counsel all employers to look
we'll after the physical health Of their
subordinates. You are expected to I'M
derstand better than they all these ques-
tions of ventilation and sunshine, and all
the laws Of hygiene.
There are stores and banking houses
and factories and newspaper establish.
ments where the atmosphere is death.
Your employees may not always appreci.
ate your work, as that style of kind.
ness was not appreciated in the instance
mentioned by Charles Reade, where in q
great factory . fan was provided
for the blowing away of the dust Of metal
and stone, the dust arising from the ma.
chinery, and some of the workmen refused
to put this great fan in motion. They
seemed to prefer to inhale the filings, the
poisonous filings, into their lungs. But
in the vast majority Of cases your en-.
ployes will appreciate every kindness in
that direction.
Then would have you carry out this
sanitary idea. and put into as few hour,
as possible the work of the day. Som.
time ago-whether it has been changed
Ger CLERKS in Brooklyn who went to bust
ness at five o'clock in the morning ant
continued until ten o'clock at night. Now
that is inhuman.
1t seems to me all the merchants in al
departments ought, by simultaneous move
ment, to come out in behalf of the earl,
closing theory. These young men ough
to have an opportunity of going to tn
Mercantile library, to the reading rooms
to the concert hall, to the gymnasium, t.
the church. They have nerves, they hav
brains, they have intellectual aspirations
they have immortal spirits. II they cal
do good round days work in the ten o
eleven hours, you have no right to kee
them harnessed for seventeen. do NO
> think that any intelligent employer ca
afford to be reckless Of the physical an
mental health of his subordinates.
But above all. charge you, employ
,, ers, that you look after the moral and spir
itual welfare Of your employees. Firs
know where they spend their evening!
. That decides every thing. You do nc
want around your money drawer youn
l man who went last night to see Jack Shep
D pard. A man that comes into the store
the morning CHASTITY with midnight revel
D ~ is not the man for your store. Tn
young man who spends his evenings in th
Q society of refined women, or in musical {
3 artistic circles, or in literary improve
s ment, ia the young nan foi your stor
:, Without any disgusting inqusitivenes
: without any impertinence, you ought
' have your young men understand that yo
= are interested 20 much in their welfal
e that you want to know where they spen
Q their leisure hours, and they will frank
u and gladly tell you.
One of my earliest remembrances is
o old Arthur Tappan. There were man
r differences of opinion about his polite
Q but no one who ever knew Arthur Tappa
: and knew him well, doubted his being q
earnest Christian. In his store in Ne
= York he had room where every mornin
he called his employees together. and
!. prayed with them, read the Scriptures
u them, sang with them, and then they 81
tered on the duties Of the day. On MOI
u day morning the exercises differed, an
y he gathered the young men together an