Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-05-24

Piles, to earn fortune. It is your desir
to do your whole duty to the men an
women in your service.
First o fall then,
PAY AS LARGE WAGES AS ARE REASONABLE
and as your business will afford. No
necessarily what others pay. certsinl
not what your hired hell
say you must pay, for that i
tyranny on the part Of labor unbsarable
The right of q lsborer to tell his employee
what he must pay, implies the right Of 81
employer to compel q man into a servic,
whether he will or not, and either Of these
ideas is despicable. When any employer
allows laborer to say what he must do Of
have his business ruined, and the employer
submits to it, he does every business mar
in the United States wrong and yields &c
principle which, carried out, would dis
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
think you ought to pay him.
"God bless yous" are we'll enough in
their place, but they do not buy coal nol
pay house rent, nor get shoes for the chill
dren. At the same time you, the employer,
ought to remember through what straits
and strains you got the fortune By
which you built your store or run
the factory. You are to remember
that you take all the risks and employe
takes none or scarcely any. Yon are to
remember that there may be reverses in
fortune, and that some new style of ma
chinery may make your machinery value
less, or some new style OF tariff set your
business back hopelessly and forever. You
must take all that into consideration, and
then pay Whist is reasonable.
DO NOT BE TOO READY TO CUT DOWN WAGES.
AS far as possible pay all, and pay prompt
ly. There is great deal OF Bible teach
ing on this subject. Mslscbi:-I will be
swift witness against all sorcerers, and
against all aduIterers, and against those
who oppress the hireling in his wages
Levlticus:-"Thou shalt not keep the
wages OF the hireling all night unto the
morning" Colossisus: Masters give
unto your servants that which is
Just aud equal; knowing that ye
also have Master in heaven." So yo1 see
it is not question between you and your
employe 30 much as it isl question between
you and God.
Do not ssy to your employees Nov if
you don't like this place get another" when
you know they cannot get another As far
as possible once year visit at their homes
your clerks and your workmen. That is the
only way you can become acquainted with
their wants. You will Oy such process find
out that there is a blind parent or sick
sister being supported. You will find some
Of your young men in rooms without
FIRE in winter, and in summer swelterlng IN
ill.veutilated apartments You will find
how much depends on the wages you pay
or withhold. On Saturday morning when
you come into yolr counting.room aud
draw the check which will bring the money
for the wages or 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 reliet to the dire nee assities which
stand back OF him.
Moreover, it is your duty as employer,
ss far as possible, 10
MOULD THE WELFARE or THE EMPLOYEES
You ought TO a1vise him about invest.
msnts, about lie insurance, about savings
bauks. You ought to give him the benefit
OF your experience. There are hundreds
and thousands OF employers in this couu-
try and Englsnd, ! am glad to cay, who
are settling in the very best possible Why
the destiny of their employees. Such meu
as Marshall, OF Leeds; Lister, Of Bradford;
Akroyd, Of Halifax; and men so near al
home it might offend their molesty If ]
me eltiored their nam4s. These men have
oult resdingrooms librarier, concert hslls.
afforded Croquet lawns, cricket grounds
oymnasiums, choral sooleties for
heir employees, and they have not
merely paid the wages of Saturday night,
but through the conteutment and The
thrift and the good morals Of their EN-
ployes, they are Paying wages from gener-
alton 10 generation forever.
Again | counsel oil employers TO look
we'll after the physical health OF their sub
ordiuate5 You ere e4pected 10 under
stand better than they all these questions
of ventilation ard sunshine, and all the
laws Of hygiene.
There ara at"".aa1 aui banking houses
and factories and newspapers establish
ments where the atmosphere ls death
Your employees mGy always appreciate
your work as that style OF klndness was
not appreciated IN the instance mentioned
by Charles Resde, where IN great fac.
t3ry fan was provided for the blowing
off the dust of metal and stone, the dust
arising from the machinery, and some OF
the workmen refused to pu. this great tan
in motion. They seemed to prefer to in.
hale the Filings, the poisonous filings, in.
to their lungs. But in the vast majority
of cases your employees will appreciate
ey nv kindness il that direction.
DO NOT PUT on THEN ANY UNNECESSARY
FATIGUE.
I never could understand why the drivers
IN our CITY cars must stand all day when
they might iUst as we'll sit down and drive
Il seems to me most Qnrighteous that so
many OF the female clerks in our stores
should be compelled TO stand all day, and
tbroush those hours when there are but
few or 70 customers. These people have
aches and annoyance and weariuess enough
without putting upon them additional
fatigue. Unless those female clerks must
90 up and down on the business of the
store let them sit down. At the end of the
year you will find that they hsVe 80 ID as
many goods and made as fine Bargains
yea better; for one clerk with a clear
brain and rested body and radiance will
sell more goods than two clerks with health
bedraggled. =.
Then / would have yor carry out this
sanitary ides, and put into as few hours as
possible the work OF the day. Some time
apo-whe,her it has been changed know
not-there were one thousand grocer clerks
in Brooklyn who went to work at five
O'Clock 10 the morning ana eoptinped until
ten o'clock at night. Nov, that is inhu
man.
1t seems to ne all the merchants in all
depArtme ats ought bY simultaneous move
ment, to come oct in behalf OF the early
closing theory. These young men oug b
IN have An opportunity of going to the