St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-17

call my employees together, and | say:
Now, boys, | want to show you how mat
tiers stand. What you turned out this year
brought so much. You see it isn't as much
as we got last year. l can't afford to pay
you as much as l 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 you? Come, let us settle this.
And" said that manufacturer, 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-" But when man goes among his
employees with supercilious air, and drives
up to his factory as though he were the
autocrat of the universe, with the sun and
moon in his vest pockets, moving amid the
wheels of the factory, chiefly anxious lest
creased or smirched hand should touch his
immaculate broadcloth, he will see in the
end that he has made an awful mistake.
think that employers will find out after
awhile that it is to their interest,
as far as possible. to eX-
plain 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 rectifcation of the country.
Labor is appreciated and rewarded just in
proportion as country is Christianized.
An engineer in New England factory
gets sleepy and he does not watch the
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
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who is there?" The reply comes:
at Fall River, where there was
just now, and 1 lost my life, and want to
come ill.," why do you want to come in,
and by what right do you come in?'' asks
the celestial gatekeeper. ''Ohn says the
man, Il employed 200 or 500 hands l
was great man at Fall River" "You
employed 200 or 800 men," says the gate
keeper, but how much Christian grace
did you employ?" None at all, says the
owner OF the mill. ''Step back" SAYS the
celestial gatekeeper. No admittance
here for YOU" Right after comes up the
poor workman. He knocks at the gate.
The shining gatekeeper says: ''Who is
there?" He says: Il am poor work
man; come from the explosion in Fall
River. 1 would like to enter" ''What is
your right to come in here?" asks the
shining gatekeeper. The workman says:
II heard that a shining messenger came
forth from your world to our world to re-
deem it; have been bad man; 1 used to
swear when 1 hurt my hand with the wheel.
used to be angry; l have done great
many wrong things; but [ confessed it all
to the messenger that came from your
country. and after confessed it he told me
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have right to come, there is his name on
the palm of my hand; here is his name on
my forehead" Then there is sound of
working pulleys, and the gates lift, and the
workingman goes in. There was vast
ditferencel between the funerals at Fall
River. The owner of the mill had great
funeral. The poor workman had
A SMALL FUNERAL.
The man who came up on his own pomp-
Gus resources was shut out of heaven.
The poor man, trusting in the grace of the
Lord Jesus Christ, entered heaven. So
you see it is a democratic religion. I do
not care how much money you have, you
have not enough to buy your way through
the gate. l do not care how poor you are.
If you have the grace of God in your heart,
no one can keep you out. If the shining
gatekeeper, smitten by some injustice,
should try to keep you out, all heaven
would fly from their thrones, and they
would cry, ''Let HIN in ! Let him in r'
My friends, you need to saturate our popu-
lations with the religion of Christ and
wages will be larger, employers will be more
considerable, all the tides of thrift will set
in. [ have the highest authority for saying
that goodness is profitable for the life that
now is. 1t pays for the employer. 1t pays
for the employee. The religion of Christ
came out to rectify all the wrongs of the
world, and it will yet settle this question
between labor and capital just as certainly
as you sit there and 1 stand here. The
hard hand of the wheel and the soft hand
of the cOunting-room will clasp each
other yet. They will clasp each other
in congratulation. They will clasp each
other on the glorious morning of the millen-
mum. The hard hand will say: 81 pleughed
the desert into garden;" the soft hand will
reply: Il furnished the seed" The one
hand will say: 81 thrashed the mountains"
the other hand will say: Il paid for the
fail" The one hand will say: 81 ham,
mered the spear into a pruning-hook;" and
the other hand will answer: II signed the
treaty of peace that made that possible"
Then Capital and Labor will lie down to-
gether, and the lion and the lamb, and the
leopard and the kid, and there will be moth
ing to hurt or to destroy in all Gods holy
mount, for the mouth of the Lord hath
spoken it.
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