Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-05-24

continent A sublime posture for an
American statesman! You and To-Day
stand on the mountain top of privilege, and
on the rock of ages, and we look of, and we
hear coming from the future the happy iu-
dustries, and smiling populations, and the
consecrated fortunes, and the lnnun1eraole
nrosperities of the closing nineteenth and
the opening twentieth century.
And now / have two words one to cap
italists and the other to laboring men.
To the capitalists: Be your own executors.
Make investments for eternity. Do not be
like some capitalists I know who walk
around among their employees with supercl-
ious air, or drive up to the factory IN manner
which seems to indicate they are the auto
crafts of the universe with the sun and moon
in their vest pockets chiefly anxious when
they 90 among the laboring men not 10 DC
touched by the greasy OF smirchcd hand ana
have their broadcloth injured. be
Christian employer Remember those
who are under your Charge are bone OF
your bone and flesh of yota. flesh, that
Jesus Christ died for thom, and that they are
immortal Divide up your estates. OF por,
tions 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 will twenty naiu-
ion dollars. yet giving how much LOT Sne
alton of human suffering? He gave some
money little while before he died. Thac'
was we'll: but in all this will of twenty
million dollars, how much? One million! NO:
Five hundred thousand? No. Ono hundred
dollars? No. Two cents? No. Ono cent!
No. These great cities grooming in anguish
nations crying out for the bread OF ieverlast-
ing life. A man in a will giving twenty
millions of dollars and not one cent to, 1oo
1t is disgrace to our civilization:
To laboring men: | congratulate youson
your prospects. congratulate you on tHe
fact that your are getting your representa-,
tives at Albany at Harrisburg, and at at
Washington This will go on until you VIII
have representatives ut all the headquarters,
and YOU will have full justice. Mark that. l
congratulate you also on the appearances
for your children. Your children are gong
to have vast opportunities; congratulate
YOU that you have to work and that when
Won are dead your children will have to
work. congratulate you also on your OPP
portunities OF information. Plato paid
one thousand three hundred dollars
for two books. Jerome ruined hImselt,
financially. by buying one volume OF Orlgen.
What vast opportunities for Intelligence 1or
YOU and your children! A workingman goes
along by the show window of some great pub
fishing house and he sees book that costs
Ave dollars! He says, II wish could nave
that information: | wish | could raise nve
dollars for that costly and beautiful booS
4 few months pass on and he gets the value
of that book for fifty cents IN pamPniet
There never was such day for the working
men of America es the day that is coming. =
Bnt 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 thincs-all the continents, all worluss
and all the islands Of light. Capitalist OIL
immensity, crossing over to our con-
dtion. Coming into our world, NOT
by cato 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 adzc and saw, and chlsel, ana
az and in u carpenter shop, showing HIM
salf brother with tho tIldesmen. owner
of all things. and vet on g hillock back OF
Jerusalem ore day rcsigning everything
for others. keeping not so much as a shehe,
to pay for His obscguics. by cnarity
buried in the suburbs OF q city that had
r,sf Him out. Before the cross oil sucn I.
c,nitalist and such a carpenter, al men
con afford to shake hands and worship
Hero is the every mans Christ. None So high
but He was higher. None so poor bur he was as
noorer. At His feet the hostile extremes VIII
Vet renounce their aniulosities, and coun-
fenances which have glowered with the Pre3,
udces and revenge oil centuries shali
br;chten with the smile OF heaven as lie
commands "Whatsoeyer ye wouid that lieh
should do to you, do ye even SO TO tneni.