The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1886-06-03

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homes. your clerks and your worknsn.
/ That is the only way you can become Gc-
| quAintsd with their wants. Yos vii BY
such process hnd out that there is a blind
| parent or sick sister being Supported.
You viii End some Of your young men in
rooms without any FIRE in winter, and in
summer suelteTing Z i.l-vsntilsted apart
nents. You viii fnd bow much depends
on the wages you pay or withhold. On
Saturday morning, when you come into
. your countin groom sni draw the eek
which viii br.1g the money fer the rs zss
7 on the salaries. you viii have q thrill q
( satisfaction m knowing il is not only the
f money you give % the young man. but the
I relief u the dire necessities which stsrd
. tack Of him.
Moreover. il is your duty as employer,
as far as possible. 20 mold the welfare Of
the employe. You ought 70 ADVISE him
about investments, about life insur-
ancs. about savings banks You ought
to give him the bensf; o. your s1-
perience There are hundreds and % 11-
sands Of employers IN this couatry
and England. I am glad . say. who srs
settling in the very best possible way
the destiny Of their employee. Such men
a. Marshall, Of Lssds: F!ster. Of Brad.
ford: Akroyd. Of Halifax. and men 20
near 81 home il might offend their mod
esty II mentioned their nsnss. These
men have built read .ug rooms. l.brar e..
concert halls. afforded crygu=t Isvns.
cricket grounds. gymnssiuns. choral So
cieties FOR their employee and they have
not merely paid TIE wages Of Saturday
oh k.r4s - ~ Er.s~ a-4
the thrift and the god morals O. their
employees. they are paving wages from
generation . generation forever.
Again. counsel ali employers T. look
vel after the physical nssI:h Of their
unfortunate. You srs expected = II.
ders:and hsttsr than they al thess g1-s.
tons Of ventilation And sunsb y. All sn
tie laws # hygiene.
There are stores ani BANKING houses
and factories and news3apar establish.
Eents whore the atmosphere = dsa.n.
Your employee may Mt always app.-ai.
az ypuT Work. 3 that style II kind.
ness vas not appreciated il M instance
m@n, oHz3 ~ Charle. Reaie. - 1e-e p Z
great "a tyry fan va provided
for the slyR n away-of tbe iq., o. metal
and c:one. The dust sri-ing tran ne ma.
chinsry. and some q ne wors Il r.:u.si
% put this great fan IN u5..eu. TaeY
seemed u prefer 70 n1ale :ne #llngs. ne
poisonous filings. .nto their .lu-s. BI.
IN the vas. majority Of cas-. yo1r en-
pl9ye. vii appreciate every k.uin=s. u
tina, 1 rect.gu.
Then / would have you carry n. this
sanitary .ea. ard pu. IN a. few hours
a. possible the woIk u ta- dsy. Some
time ago-wbethsr II Las ten hanged
know not-there were one th.u-aAd gro.
Ger CLERKS u Brooklyn who went 70 bust.
ness at FIVE O'Clock in the morning and
continued until ten O'Clock at ight. Now,
that ! inhuman.
1t scans 70 me all the merchants in all
departm ought, by simultaneous move
uent, 70 come yut IN behalf Of The early
closing theory. Thee Young men ought
n have an opportunity OF going 70 the
Mercantile library. - the read ng rooms,
- the concert hall, 70 the gymnasium, -
the church. They have nerves, they have
trains, .hey Lave ,rtelle -'0al aspirations,
they have immortal sp!rIts. II they can
do a good round days work in the ten or
eleven hour, YOU have no right 70 keep
them harm -ssed for seventeen. ! do OF
think that any intelligent employer can
afford 10 re reckless Of the physical and
mental health If MS subordinates.
But above all, | charge yo1. . employ
ers, that you look after the moral and spir-
itul welfare Of your employees First,
know where they spend their evenings.
That decides every thing You do not
want around you money drawer a young
man who went last night 70 e ack Shep-
pard. A man that comes into the store in
the morning ghastly with Midnight revel-
~ is not the man for your store. The
young man who spends his evenings in the
society Of refined women, OF in musical or
artistic circles, or in literary improve.
ment, is the young man for your store.
Without any disgusting inquisitiveness,
without any imperti hence, you ought to
have your young men understand that you
are interested 50 much in their welfare
that You want 10 know where they spend
their leisure hours, and they viii frankly
, AMI gladly tell you.
One Of my earliest membranes is of
old Arthur Tappan. There were many
differences Of opinion about mis- politics,
but no one who ever knew Arthur Tappan,
and knew him well, doubted his being an
earnest Christian. In his store in New
| York he had a room where every morning
| he called his employees together, and be
prayed with them, read the Scriptures to
! them, sang with them. and then they en-
tered on the duties Of the day. On Mon
| day morning the exercises differed, and
! be gathered the young men together and
| asked them where they had attended
church, what had been their Sabbath ex.
! periences and what had been the sermon.
Samuel Budget had the largest BUSH
! ness in the west Of England. He had in
! room of his wareh ouse place pleasantly
I furnished with comfortable seats and
/ 'Fletcher's Family Devotions' and Wes-
| leyan hymn books, and he gathered his
/ employees together every morning, and,
having sung, they knelt down and prayed
! side by side-the employer and the en-
| ployes.
Do you wonder at that mans success,
| and that though thirty years before he
had been partner in small retail shop
! in small village, at his death he be-
/ queathed many millions. God can trust
| such a man as that with plenty of money.
| Sir Titus Salt had wealth which was be-
| yond computation, and at Saltaire, En-
/ gland, he had a church and a chapel built
! and supported by himself-the church for
| those who preferred the Episcopal service,
and the chapel for those who preferred
| the Methodist service. At the opening of
| one of his factories he gave great din-
| ner, and there were three thousand FIVE
hundred people present, and in his after
dinner speech he said to these people
| gathered: