Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-05-17

COMMITTEE Some OF the members
What members do you mesnT' asked tie
visitor. THE plowmen and laborers who
are appointed by Us as a committee.
belong to the new systemites."
You say that there have been great
failures in that direction. l admit it.
Every great movement at the start is
failure. The application of steam power
failure, electro.telegrsphy a failure, rail
roading failure, but after awhile the
worlds chief successes. l hear some say:
why, it is absurd to talk of surplus to
be put into this CO operative association,
when meu can hardly get enough to eat
and wear and take care of their families.
l reply: Put into my hand the money
spent IN the last FIVE years in this country
by the lsboring classes for rum and tobac.
co, and | will start a cooperative institu-
ton Of monetary power that will surpass
any financial institution in the United
States.
Again: Iremsrk that relief will come
to the working classes through
MORE yAoRouGR Rlsooxssv s;
on the part Of employers that it is best for
them to let their employees know just how
matters stand. The most OF the capitalists
Of to-day are making less than six per cent,
less than five per cent, less than four per
cent, on their investments. Here and
there is an anaconda swallowing down
everything, but such are the exceptions 1t
is often the case that employees blame their
employer because they suppose he is get
ting along grandIy, when he is oppressed
to the last point Of oppression. / knew q
manufacturer who employed more than
thousand hands l said to him: "Do You
ever have any trouble with your workmen?
do you have any strikes2' mo" he said
"Wbs, in this time Of angry discussion
between Capital and Labor, no trouble2"
None at sll-none," he said: "Hov is
thatY "Well," he said, Il have way OF
my own. Every little while | call my en-
ployes together, and l 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 the manu-.
facturer, I'VE are always unanimous. When
we suffer we all suffer together. When we
advance we advance together, aud my
men would die for me" But when man
goes among bis employees with supercil
rous air, aud drives up TO his factory IS
though he were the autocrst Of the uni
verse, with the sun and the moon in his
vest pockets, moving amid the wheels OF
he factory, chiefly anxious lest creased
or smirched hand should touch bis i'm
maculste broadclolh, 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 ss possible,
to explain matters 10 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 RECTIFICATIoN
of the country. Labor is appreciated and
rewarded just in proportion as country is
Christisnized. Why is our smallest coin g
penny, while in China it takes ak or doz
en- pieces to make one penny, the Chinese
carrying in his own country the "cash," as
it 10 called, around his neck like string Of
beads, dozen of these pieces necessary TO
make the value OF one OF our pedhiesr 10
this country, for nothing do we want TO pay
less than penny. In China, they often
have TO pay the sixth of q penny, or the
twelfth of penny. What is the differenceH
Christianity. Show me community that
is thoroughly infdel, aud will show you
community where wages are small
Show me community that |
is thoroughly Chris,iapi2sd, and | will show
yon community where wages are com
paratively large. How do Ioccount for itY
The philosophy is easy. Our religion is q
democratic religion. 1t makes the owner
Of tine mill uEderatand he is brother 10
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 fu-
preme mercy. No putting on Of airs in the
sepulchre Or
IN THE JUDGMENT.
An engineer in q New England factory
gets sleepy, and he does not watch the
steam gauge and there is q wild thunder
Of explosion, and the owner Of the mill and
one workman are slain The Two slain
men come up toward the gate Of heaven.
The owner Of the mill knocks at the gate.
The celett al gstekeeper cries: Who 10
there2' The reply comes: i was the
owner Of O factory at Fall River, where
there was an explosion just now,
apd l lost my life, aud
want to come in" why do you want to
come in, and by what right do you come
in2 asks the celestial gatekeepes. "Ohr'
says the man, \ employed two or three
hundred hands. was great man at Fall
River" "You employed TWO or three hun
dred men" says the gatekeeper, but how +,
much Christian grace did you euployf
None at al" ssYs the owner of the mill
Step back," says the celestial gatekeeper;
no sdmittance here for you" Right after
comes up the poor workman. He knocks
at the gate. The ahiuing gatekeeper Gays:
WHO Is thereT He says Il AN poor
workman; come up from the explosion
in Fall River; would like to enter"
whit IS your right 70 cOne IN nereI
asks the shining gatekeeper. The work
man says: II heard that shining mes.
ssuger cotae forth IRON your world to our
world to redeem it; / have been q bad
man; / used to swear when ! hurt
nv hand with the wheel; | used to be IN
gry; have done q great many wrong
things, but confessed it all 10 the imessen
ger who came from your country, aud after
! I confessed it he told me to come up here,
and that you may know have right to
come, there is his name On the palm Of
my hand, hare is his name on my fore
head Then there is q sound Of working
pulleys, and the gates lift and the working
man goes in. There was vas, difference
between the funerals a. Fall River. The
owner Of The NIL hsd great funeral The
poor WORKMAN had email funeral The
man who came up on his own ponpous re
sources vas shut out Of heaven. The poor
man, trusting in the grace Of the Lord
Jesus Christ, entered heaven.