, 1886-05-23

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] hear some say: why, it is absurd to tall
Of n surplus to be put tito this cooperative
association when men can hardly get enough
TO eat and wear and take care OF their fam
lies | reply: Put into my hand the
MONEY spent in the last five years in this
country by the laboring ella SEES for rum and
tobacco, and | will start n cooperative in
s~titution of monetary power that will sur
pass any financial ins tuition in the United
Stltes.r
Again: | remark that relief will come to
ihs Sorking classes through more thorough
discovery on the part of employers that it is
Lest for them to let their employees know jus
how matters st AMI. The most of the CAPT
talists o, to-day are making less than o per
cent, less than > per cent, less than 4 per
c,nt on their investments. Hero and there
is an anaconda swallowing dowl every
thing, but such are the exception. II is
often the case that employees blame their
employer because they suppose he is
gettiag a,cng grandly, when he is
oppressed to the last point of oppression.
knew n manufactures who employed more
Than a thousand hands | said to him: "Do
you ever have any trouble with your work
mcnl do you have any strikes!' NO he
said. what in this time of angry discu
sion be, ween Capital and Labor. no troublef
None at all-none." Islid: "How is that
"Well," he said. 81 have a way of my own.
Every little while | call my employees
together, and | say: Now, boys, 1
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; I 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 manufacturer. 1--WE are al
ways unanimous. When we suffer we all
suffer together. When W, advance we ad-
vance together, and my men would die for
me- But when n man goes among his en-
ployes with n supercilious air, and drives upto
his factory as though he were the autocrat
of the universe, with the sun and moon in
his vest pockets, moving amid the whee : of
the factory, chiefly anxiou lest a CREASED or
smirched hand should touch his immaculate
broadcloth, he will see at the end 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 explain INIT
tors to their employees. You be frank W tn
them. and they will be frank with you.
Again, ] remark, relief will come to the
laboring classes through the religious rectifi-
cation of the country. Labor is appreciated
and rewarded just in proportion as a country
is Christianizsd. Why is our smallest coin a
rcnny. while in China it takes six or a dozen
pieces to make one penry the Chinese carry
ing in his own country the cash" as it is
called, around his neck like n string of beads,
n dozen of thrsa piece necessary to make the
value of enc of our penniesl In this country,
for rothing do we want to pay less than a
penny. In China, thy often have to
pay the sixth OF n rennv, or the
twelfth of a penny. What is the dif1erence2
lu...+t.ft.- Gill;. -. - communal - that
is thoroughly infidel, an | will show YOU a
community where wages are small. Show
me n community that is thoroughly Chris
tanned. AMI | will show YOU "A community
where wages are comparatively large. How
do | account for iti Tho philosophy is easy.
Our reli zion is n democratic religion. IL
makes the owner OF the mill understand he
is a brother to all thr operatives IN that mill.
Born of the same Heavenly Father. to lie
down in the same dust, 10 be saved by the
same supreme mercy. No putting on of airs
in the sopulcher or in the JUDGMENT.
An engineer in n New England factory
gels sleepy. and he does not watch the steam
gauge, and ther- is n W Id thunder of expo
son. and Il g owner OF the mill anil one of
the workmen are sla II. The two slain men
come up toward the gate of heaven The
owner of the mill knocks at the gate. The
celestial ratekeeper cries: "Who is therei'
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