Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-05-19
TT IS EMrNENTLY PRACTICABLE.

ooh" says some man here, that is
all Utopian, that is apocryphal, that is
impossible" No, [ cut out of a paper
this: lone 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 a 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,
paw the wages fixed by the board,
which neither employers nor employ
ed have the power to change. To
avoid this difficulty, the workmen in
one of the largest steel works in Shelf
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 a strike would be-"
But you go with me and Twill show
vou-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 begin? 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 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 pollt-
ical economists under the archivolt of
the heavens IL 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 a 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,
there! yo heaven Well, the timber
was too heavy; they could not get it
up. There was a gentleman rid
ing by on horse, and he stopped
and said to this corporal: 'Why
don't you help them lift2 That
timber is too heavy for them
to lift" NO" he said, II 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
together-yo, heavel" and the timber
went to its place. "Now," said the
gentleman to the corporal, "when you
have a piece of timber too heavy for
the men to lift, and you want help,
| YOU send to your commander-in-c chief.
1t was Washington! Now, that is
about all the Gospel I know-the Cos
pei of giving somebody lift, a lift
out of darkness, a lift out of earth into
heaven That is the Gospel of helping
somebody else to lift.
''Oh," says some wiseacre, talk as
you will, the law of demand and sup
ply will regulate these things until
the end of time" No, it will not un-
less God dies and the batteries of the
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 are? They have
gone into partnership, and they pro
pose to swindle this earth, and are
swindlfng it. You are drowning.
Supply and Demand stands on the
shore, one on one side, the other on
the other side, of the life boat, and
they cry out to you, Nov, you pay
us what we ask you for getting you to
shore, or go to the bottom" If you
can borrow S., 900 you can keep from
failing in business. Supply and De
mand say, CHOW, you pay us exorbi-
tant usury, or you go into bankrupt
cy!' The robber firm of Supply and
Demand say to you: 1.-The crops are
short We bought up all the wheat,
and it is in our bin. Now, you pay
our price, or starve" That is your
magnificent law of supply and de-
mand.
DEMAND AND SUPPLY PALACES.
Supply and Demand own the largest
mill on earth, and all the rivers roll
over their wheel, and into their hopper
they put all the men, women, and chill
dren they can shovel out of the cen
turies and the blood and the bones
redden the valley while the mill
grinds. That diabolic law of supply
and demand will yet have to stand
aside, and instead thereof will come
the law of love, the law of co-opera-
ton, the law of kindness, the law OF
sympathy, the law of Christ
Have you no idea of the coming OF
such time? Then you do not believe
the Bible. All the Bible is full OF
promises on this subject, and as the
ages roll on the time will come when
men of fortune will be giving larger
sums to humanitarian and evangelistiC
| purposes, and there will be more James
Lenoxes and Peter Coopers and Will
lam E. Dodges and George Peabodys.
AS that time comes there will be more
parks, more picture galleries, more
gardens thrown open for the holiday
people and the working classes.
[ was reading some time ago, in re
gard to a charge that had been made
in England against Lambeth Palace,
that it was exclusive; and that charge
demonstrated the sublime fact that tc
the grounds of that wealthy estate
eight hundred poor families had free
passes, and forty croquet companies,
and on the half day holidays four thou
sand poor people recline on the grass,
walk through the paths, and sit under
the trees That is gospel gospel on
the wing, gospel out of doors worth
just as much as indoors. That time is
going to come.
That is only a hint of what is going
to be- The time is going to come when
if you have anything in your house
worth looking at-pictures, pieces OF
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