The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-05-21

dress. don't know what to do"
There is dead halt for minute or
two, and then one OF the worlmen steps
out from the ranks OF his fellows and
says: "Boss, you have been very good
to US, and whom you prospered we pros
pered, and now you are in tight place
and am sorry and we have got to
sympathize with you. don't know
how the others feel, but propose that
we take of twenty per cent from our
wages, and that when the times get
good you will remember US and raise
them again" The workman looks
around to his comrades and says.
"Boys, what do you say to this9 All in
favor Of my proposition will say ay."
SAY! ayl ay!" shout two hundred
voices.
But the mill-owner, getting in some
new machinery, exposes himself very
much, and takes cold, and it settles into
pneumonia, and he dies. In the pro-
cession to the tomb are all the workmen,
tears rolling down their cheeks, and
off upon the ground; but an hour before
the procession gets to the cemetery the
wives and the children OF those work
men are at the grave waiting for the
arrival Of the funeral pageant. The
minister Of religion may have delivered
an eloquent eulogium before they
started from the house, but the most
impressive things are said that day by
the working-classes standing around the
tomb.
That night in all The cabins Of the
working-people where they have family
prayers, the widowhood and the orphan
age in the mansion are remembered. No
glaring populations look over the iron
fence of the cemetery; but lowering
over the scene, the benediction Of God
and man is coming for the fulfllment OF
the Christian-like injunction, "Whatso.
ever ye would that men should do to
you, do ye even so to them"
"O," says some man here, 'that is all
Utoplan, that is apocryphal, that is i'm
possible" No, cut out Of a paper this:
Zone of the pleasantest incidents re-
corded in long time is reported from
Sheffield, England. The wages Of the
men in the iron works at Sheffield
are regulated by board Of arbitration,
by whose decision both masters and
men are bound. For some time past the
iron and steel trade has been extremely
improbable, and the employers can not,
without much loss, pay the wages fixed
by the board, which neither employers
nor employed have the power to change.
To avoid this difficulty, the workmen in
one the largest steel works in Sheffield
hit upon a device as rare as it was gen.
erous. They offered to work for their
employers one week without any pay
watever. How much better that plan is
than a strike would be-"
But yougo with me and will show you
not 80 far as Sheffield, England-fac-
tories, banking-houses, storehouses, and
costly enterprises, where this Christ
like injunction OF my text is fully kept,
and you could no more get the employer
to practice an injustice upon his
men, or the men to conspire against the
employer, than you could get your right
hand and your left hand, your right
eye and your left eye, your right ear
and your left ear, into physiological
antagonism. Now, where is this to be-
gin? In our homes, in our stores, on
our farms-not waiting for other people
TO do their duty. Is there divergence
now between the parlor and the kitchen?
Then there is something wrong, either
in the parlor or the kitchen, perhaps in
both. Are the clerks in your store irate
against the firm? Then there is some
thing wrong, either behind the counter,
or in the private Office, or perhaps in
both.
The great want OF the world to-day is
the fulflllment Of this Christ-like injuno-
tion, that which he promulgated in his
sermon olivetic All the political econ
omists under the archivolt of the heavens
in convention for thousand years, can
not settle this controversy between mo-
nopoly and hard work, between capital
and labor. During the Revolutionary
war there was heavy piece OF timber to
be lifted, perhaps for some fortress,
and corporal was overseeing the
work, and he was giving commands
TO some soldiers as they lifted: "Heave
away, therel 20 heaye" Well, the
timber was too heavy, they could not get
1t up. There was gentleman riding by
on horse, and he stopped and said TO
this corporal, "Why don't you help
them lift? That timber is too heavy for
thom to lift" "No," he said, ~ won't;
I am a corporal" The gentleman got
off his horse and came up TO the place.
"Now," he said TO the soldiers, "all to-
gether- 70 heAvel" and tho timber went
10 Its place. "Now," said the gentleman
to the corporal, ''when you have piece
OF timber too heavy for the men to lift
and you want help, you send TO your
mmander-in-chief" II was Washing
ton. Now, that is about all the gospel
/ know-the gospel Of giving somebody
q lift, lift out Of darkness, lift out
Of earth into heaven. That Is the gos-
pei OF helping somebody else TO lift
"0," says some wiseacre, talk as you
will! the law Of demand and supply will
regulate these things until the end Of
time" No, 1t win not unless God dies
and the batteries Of Judgment Day are
spiked, and Pluto and Proserpine, king
and queen Of the Internal regions, take
full possession Of this world. Do you
know who Supply and Demand
are9 They have gone. into partner
ship, and they propose 10 swim
die this earth, and are swindling
It. You are drowning. Supply and
Demand stand on the shore, one on one
side, the other on the other side Of the
life boat and they cry out to you: snow
you pay US what we ask you for getting