Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-05-23

James LcnoNes and Peter Coopeys ard
Mllllam r: Dodges and George laei.todys.
As that time comes there will he more
parks. more picture galleries. more gardens
thrown open for the holiday people and the
wtrl:ing classes.
And now | have two words. orc 10 can;-
%talists and the other to laboring mon.
To the capitalists: BE your oWl, cyccl-
tors. Make investments for cterniiv. 10.
MOI be like some capitalists I Encw WHO
walk around among their employees viii. a;
supercilious air. or drive up 40 The i~nr.;ry
in Il manner which seems 10 Indicate {I,"y
are tn. autocrats of the universe with rhu
sun and noon in their vest ENTHUSIASTICALLY
anxious when they so among ahor;nw men
not to be touched blythe greHsy ur%m!rchcd
hand and have their broHdcic.h injur.l. ne
Il Christian employer. Remember those
who are under your charge a.e bono of Your
pnhe ana ilcsh OF your flesh. that Jesus
Christ died for them and that they are i'm
mortal. Divide up your estates. or portions
OF them, for the relief Of the world before
70" leave it. DO not go out of the world
IKE that man who died eight or ten years
ago. leaving i'll his will twenty million dol
lafs, YET giving how much for the ch,irci. of
GOD: How much for tho alienation -
human suffering? He gave some mone.~ d
little White before he died. That VIZ, w.il:
hat in tn, win of twenty million dollars,
hundred thousand? Nc. Cne hundred
dollars? No. Two cents: Nc. One ccnt?
No.. These grcHt cities grooming in anguish.
nations CRYING ont fer the bread vi cv"r!as,-
ing life. A man in IL win giving twenty
millions of dollars and not one cent To God.
LII y y Disgrace to our civilization.
10 iaboring men: congratulate W., cl
Your prospects. l congratulate You on he
I"e' maj YOU az" @H.:....g y,ur r5r"t en,a-
t,ve; ut Albany. At Harrisburg. and ut
Washington. This will go on anti yo,t will
nave representatives. at all tho h~calquar-
tsrs' and YOU Will have full justice. Marx
mat. l congratulate you also on the urlor-
lnhlties Tor your children. Jour children
are gong to have vast opportunities. /
congratulate you that yo, have 10 work and
nave 10 Work. l congratulate" you niso on
Your opportunities of information. Plato
PAD one thousand three hundred dollars
,or two books. Jerome ruined himself,
financially. by b~uEingonc volume of Orisca.
What vast opportunities for intelligence for
you and our children! A w~orkinsman
goes along by the show window of some
great publishing house and he sees a book
that costs five dollars. He says. Il wish I
could have that information: wish could
ritlsc live dollars ortlat costly and beautiful
book" a few months pass on and he gets
the value of that book for fifty cents in a;
pamphlet. There never was such a day for
the workingmen of America as the dav that
is coming.
But the greatest friend of capitalist and
''ii'i' XIV nv yin WIN Will NCU DTln0 1nGIl
together in complete accord, was born one
Christmas night while the curtins 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 condition.
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 attendants. With adze. and saw,
and chisel. and aX. and in a carpenter shop
showing himself brother with the trades
men. Owner of all things. and vet on a.
hillock back of Jerusalem one duy
resigning everything for others, keep
ing not so much as u shckel
to pay for his o%bsequies. Bycharity buried
in the suburbs of II city that had east him
out: Before the cross Of such Il capitalist,
and such Il carpenter. all men can afford to
shake hands and worship. He is the every
mans Christ. None so high but he was
higher. one so poor but he was poorer.
AT his feet the hostile extremes will vet re-
nouncc their animosities, and countenances
which have glowcred With the prcjudices
and revenge of centuries shall brighten
with the smile of HEAVIER as he commands:
Whatsoever We would that men should 10
TO you, do We even SOto them"