The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-08-08

continent" A sublime posture Tor an
American statesman You and I to-day
stand on the mountain top of privilege, and
N the rock Of ages and we look of, and we
near coming from the future the happy in
iustries, and smiling populations, and the
sonsecrated fortunes, and the innumerable
properties of the closing nineteenth and
the opening twentieth century.
And now | have two words enc to can
I italists and the other to laooring men.
To the capitalists: Be your own executors.
I Make investments for eternity Do not be
| like some capitalists I know who walk
1 around among their employ with supercil-
I ious air, or drive up to the factory in manner
which seems to indicate they are the auto
Gratis of the universe with the sun and moon
| in their vest pockets, chiefly anxious when
they 90 among the laboring men not to be
touched by the greasy or smirched hand and
have their broadcloth injured. Be
Christian employer. Remem Der those
who are under your charge araSbone of
your bone and desh of your flesh, that
Jesus Christ died for them, and that they are
immortal. Divide up your estates, or por-
tons Of them, for the relief of the world
before you leave it. Do not go out of the
world like that man who died eight or ten
years ago, leaving in his VIII twenty mill
ion dollars Yet giving how much Ton the
church of God? How much for the R1ieFi-
alton Of human suffering? He gave some
money a llLLlt Willie before lie altE- ~
was we'll; but in all this VIII % twenty
million dollars how muchg One n1ilfonf 10.
Five hundred thousand? No. One hundred
I dolarss No. Two cents? No. One cent
No. These great cities grooming "a anguish,
nations crying out for the bread 81 eyerlast-
inc life. A man in a viii giving twenty
millions of dollars and not one cant ID God
1t is a disgrace TO our civilization
To laboring men: l congratnlAte you on
your prospects. 1 congratulate xoE on the
fact that your are getting your rsprasanta-
tives at Albany, at Harrisburg, and at
Washington. This will go on INF yon will
have REPRESENTATIVES at all tl4e ht2lritf uartefs
and you win have full justice. Marx that. l
congratulate you also on the uI5portunities
for your children. Your Children are going
to have vast opportunities. cqngratuiate
you that YOU have to work aud that when
you are dead your children VIII have to
work. 1 congratulate you also On your OPP
portunities of information. Plato paid
one thousand three hrndred dollars
for two books. Jerome rulued himself,
financially. by buying one volume OF Origen.
What vast opportunities for intelligence for
you and your childreni A worlzingnan goes
along by the show window OF some great pub
fishing house and he sees = book 80 costs
I've dollarsl BE says Il wish CT haze
that information; l wish l could raise five
dollars .or that costly and beautiful book
A few months pass on aud he gets the value
of that book for fifty cents in a pamphlet.
There never was such day for the working
men of America as the day that IS coming
But the greatest friend Of capitalist and
toiler. and the one who will yet bring them
together in complete accord, was born one
Christmas night while the curtains OF heaven
swung, stirred by the wings angelic. Owner
of all things-all the continents, all worlds,
and all the islands of light. Capitalist OF
immensely. crossing over to our con-
dition. Coming into our world, not
by gate of palace, but by door Of
barn. Spending His first night amid
the shepherds. Gathering afterward around |
Him the fishermen to be His chief attend |
ants With adze and saw, and chisel, and
ak, and in a carpsnte, shop, showing Him
self brother with TIN tradesmen. Owner
of all things. and YETI lock back OF |
Jerusalem one day res, everything |
for Others keeping not 50 s shekel |
to pay for His obsequf ' charity |
buried in the suburbs OF ATTY that had |
cast Him out. Before the cross of such
capitalist, and such a carpenter, all men /
can afford to shake hands and worship. |
Here is the every mans Christ. None so high |
but He was higher. None so poor but He was
poorer. AT His feet the hostile extremes will /
yet renounce their animosities and coun-
tenances which have glowered with the pref
udices and revenge of centuries shall
brighten with the smile OF heaven as He
commands: Whatsoever We would that men
should do to you, do ye even so to them"