Connecticut western news., 1890-05-21


 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 orphanage in the mansion are re- membered. No glarine populations look over the iron fence of the ceme- tery; but, lowering over the scene, the benediction of God and man is coming for the fulflllment of the Christlike injunction, 'eWhatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them"
 IT IS EMMENTLY PRACTICABLE.
 "Oh," says some man here, that is all Utopian, that is apocryphal, that is impossible" No, cut out of paper this: "One of the pleasantest incidents recorded in a long time is reported from Sheffield, England. The wages of the men in the iron works at Shelf field are regulated by board of ar bitration, 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 cannot, without much loss, pay the wages fixed by the board, which neither employers nor employ cd have the power to change. To avoid this difficulty, the workmen in one of the largest steel works in Shef- field hit upon a device as rare as it was generous. They offered to work for their employers one week without any pay whatever. How much better that plan is than strike would be-" But you go with me and Twill show you-not so far off as Sheffield, Eng land-factories, banking houses, store houses and costly enterprises where this Christlike injunction of my text is fully kept and you could no more get the employer to practice an injus- tice upon his men, or the men to con- spire 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 begin9 In our homes, in our stores, on our farms not waiting for other people to do their duty. Is there a divergence now between the parlor and the kitcheni Then there is something wrong, either in the parlor or the kitchen, perhaps in both. Are the clerks in your store irate against the firm2 Then there is something wrong, either behind the counter, or in the private office, or perhaps in both.
 The great want of the world today is the fulfillment of this Christlike in junction, that which he promulgated in his sermon Olivetic. All the polit- ical economists under the archivolt of the heavens in convention for thou. sand years cannot settle this contro versy between monopoly 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 sol diers as they lifted: "Heave away therel yo heave" We'll, the timber was too heavy; they could not get il up. There was a gentleman rid ing by on horse, and he stopped and said to this corporal: "Why don't you help them liftG Ina timber is too heavy for then to lift" "No," he said, II won't I an corporal" The gentleman got of his horse and came up to the place "Now," he said to the soldiers, "al togethcr-yo, heave!'' and the timber went to its place. "Now," said thu gentleman to the corporal, "when yo, have piece of timber too heavy fo the men to lift, and you want help you send to your conmander-in-chie It was Washington! Now, that il about all the Gospel I know-the Cos pei of giving somebody lift, Tiff out of darkness, a lift out of earth int heaven. That is the Gospel of helping somebody else to lift.
 "Oh, says some wiseacre, talk a! you will, the law of demand and sup ply will regulate these things unti the end of time" No, it will not un less God dies and the batteries of tn, Judgment day ere spiked, and Plutt and Proserpine, king and queen of th' internal regions take full possession of this world. Do you know wht Supply and Demand are7 They hay, gone into partnership, and they pro pose to swindle this earth, and ar' swindling it. You are drowning Supply and Demand stands on thu shore, one on one side, the other or the other side, of the life boat, ant they cry out to you, "Now, you pay us what we ask you for getting you tt shore, or go to the bottom!" If yo, can borrow $5, 900 you can keep from failing in business. Supply and De mand say, "Now, you pay us exorbi tant usury, or you go into bankrupt c;;-:" The robber firm of Supply ane Demand say to you: ''The crops ar, short. We bought up all the wheat and it is in our bin. Now, you pay our price, or starvev' That is you magnificent law of supply and de mand.
 DEMAND AND SUPPLY FALLACIES.
 Supply and Demand own the larges mill on earth, and all the rivers rol over their wheel, and into their hopper they put all the men, women, and chil F dren they can shovel out of the cen turies and the blood and the bones redden the valley while the mil grinds That diabolic law of suppl, and demand will yet have to stand aside, and instead thereof will com, the law of love, the law of co-opera ton, the law of kindness, the law o