Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-17


answer. "Where is your steward" "We
have no seward" "Who is your mas
terP' 1--WE have no master. We are on
new system" "Tnen who sent YOU to
do this work." '"rhe Committee"
Who is the CommitteeT "Some OF the
Mem5e "What members do YOU
meang asked the visitor. The plOw-
men ard la0Orers who are appointed by
us as committee. l belong to the new
systemltes."
You say that there have been great fail
ures In that direction l admit 1t. Every
great movement at the start is a failure.
The application OF steam power a failure,
elect o-telegraphy failure, r8Ilr0adng
failure, but after awhile the worlds
chief successes. hear some say: "Why.
1t is absurd to talk OF surplus to be put
into this cooperative association, when
men can hardly get enough TO eat and
wear and take care OF their families"
reply: Put into my hand the money spent
IN the last five years in this country by
the laooring classes for rum and tobacco,
aud viii start a cooperative Institution
OF monetary power that will surpass any
hnancial institution IN the United states.
Again: | remark that relief will come
TO the working classes through more
thorough dicOvery on the part of employ
ers thai ii is best for them to let their em-
ployes know just how matters stand.
The most OF the capitalists of to-day are
making less than per cent, less than 3
per cent, less than 4 per ceat. on their
Investments, Here and there is an ana
c0nda swallowing down everything, but
such are exceptions. Ii is often the case
that employees blame their employer be-
cause they suppose he is getting along
graudly when he Is oppressed to the last
point of oppression. / knew a manufac-
turer who employed more than a thou
sand hands. II said to him: DO you ever
have any trouble with your workmen
DO you have any strikesp NO" he
said. "W hat! in this time of angry dis
cussion between capital and labor, no
trOubleY' None at all-nOne." | said (:
"How is thatP' "Well," he SAID, IL have
way of my own. Every little while /
call my employees together, aud
say: Now, boys, want
to show you how matters stand.
What you turned out this year brought so
much. You see it isn't as much as we
got last year. | can't afford TO pay you
as much as did, Now, yOu know put
all my means in this business. What do
you think ought to be my percentage, and
what wages ought TO pay your Come.
let us settle this And" said that manu-
iacturer, 1--WE are always unanimous.
When we suffer, we all suffer together.
When we advance, we advance together,
and my men would die for me.n But
when a man goes among his employees
with a superciliOus air, and drives up TO
his factory as though he were the. auto
crat OF the universe, with the sun and the
moon in mis- vest pockets, moving amid
the wheels OF the factory, chiefly anxious
lest CREASED or smirched hand should
touch his Immaculate adclOth, be will
see at the end he has made an awful mis-
take. | think that employers will find
out after awhile that II is to their interest,
as far as possible, TO explain matters TO
their employees. You be frank with them,
and they will be frank with you.
Again: | remark, relief will come TO the
labOring classes through the religious
rectidcatlOn OF the country. Labor is ap-
preciated and rewarded just in propor-
tion as a country is Christianized. Why
is our smallest coin penny, while in
China it takes six or dozen pieces to
make Que penny, the Chinese carrying in
his own country the "cash," as il is
called, around his neck like a 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 penny. In China they
often have to pay the sixth Of a
penny, or the twelfth OF a penny.
What is the difierence5 Christianity.
Show me community That is
thoroughly inddel. and will
show you q community where wages
are small. Show me community that
Is thoroughly Christianized, and / will
show you a community where wages are
comparatively large. How do account
for 1t? The philosophy is easy. Our
religion is a democratic religion. IL
makes the owner OF the mill understand
he is a brother to all the operatives In
that mill. Born of the same Heavenly
Father, TO lie down In the same dust, To
be saved by the same supreme mercy.
No putting on of airs In the sepuichre or
in the Judgment
An engineer IN a New England factory
gets sleepy, and he does not watch tbs
steam gauge, and there is a wild thunder
of explosion. and the owner OF the mill
and one OF the workmen are slain. The
Two slain men come up toward the gate
of heaven. The owner Of the mill knocks
at the gate. 1he celestial gatekeeper
cries: "Who Is thereW The reply comes (:
III was the owner OF factory at Fall
River, where there was an explosion Just
now. and ! lost my life. and / want to
come IN" "Why do you want to come
in, and by what right do you come In ?"
asks the celestial gatekeeper. "OhV
three hundred hands. ] was "A great man
at Fall River" "You employed two or
three hundred men," says the gatekeeper,
''but how much Christian grace did you
emplOyY' "NOpe AT all" says the owner
OF the mill. "Step back" says the celes-
tial gatekeeper; mo admittance here for
yOu.V Right after up comes the poOrlwOrk-
man. He knocks AZ the gaze. Tue sum
ing gatekeeper says: "WhO IL therel"
He says: II am poor workman; | come
uD from the explosion in Fail River;
would like to enter" "What is your
right 20 come In here? - asks the shining
gatekeeper. The workman Gays: ~
heard that a shining messenger came
forth IRON your world TO our world
TO redeem it; have been n bad man I;
1 used 10 swear when hurt
my hand with TIE wheel; i used 10 be an
cry; l nave done a great many wrong
Things, but / confessed II all tO the mes
senger that came from your country, and
after confessed IL he told me 20 come up
here, and tDat you may know | have n
right 20 come, there is his name on the
palm Of my nand; here Is his name on my
forehead" Then there is sound OF
working pulleys, and the gates lift, and
the wOrkinRman goes In. There was a
vast difference between the funerals at
Fall River. The owner OF the mill had a
great funeral. Tue poor workman had a
small funeral. The man who came up ON
his own pompOus resources was shut out
OF heaven. The poor man, trusting In the
grace OF the Lord Jesus Christ, entered
heaven.
SO YOU see II is a democratic religion.
] do not care how much money YOU have,