Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-05-22

james Lenoxes and Peter Coopers and
William Z. 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.
And now have two words. one 10 capi-
talists and the other to laboring men.
To the capitalists: Be your own execu-
tors. Make Investments for eternity. Do
not be like some capitalists I know who
walk around among their employees with q
supercilious air. or drive up to the factory
in manner which seems TO indicate they
are the ahtocrats OF the universe with the
sun and moon in their vest pockets. chiefly
anxious when they go among laborlng men
not to be touched by the greasy or smirched
hand and have their broadcloth injured. Be
Christian employer. Remember those
who are under your charge are bone Of your
bone and flesh Of your flesh. that Jesus
Christ died for them and that they are inn
mortah Divide up your estates. or portions
OF them. for the relief OF the world before
you leave 1t. Do not go out Of the world
like that man who died eight or ten years
ago, leaving in his will twenty million dol
lars, yet giving how much for the church Of
God? How much for the alienation OF
human suffering2 He gave some money
elittle while before he died. That was well;
but in this will Of twenty million dollars.
how much? One million? No. Five
hundred thousand2 No. One hundred
dollars? No. Two cents? No. One cent?
No. These great cities groaningin anguish.
nations crying out for the bread of everlast-
ing life. A man in a will giving twenty
millions OF dollars and not one cent to Godi
1t is a disgrace to our civilization.
To laboring men: / congratulate you on
your prospects. congratulate you on the.
fact that you are getting your representa-
tlyes at Albany, at Harrisburg, and at
fo m
have representatives at all the headquar-
ters. and you will have full justice. Mark
that. congratulate you also on the oppor-
tunities for your children. Your children
are going to have vast opportunities. 1
congratulate you that you have to work and
that when you are dead your children will
have 10 work. / congratulate you also on
your opportunities OF information. Plato
paid one thousand three hundred dollars
for two books. Jerome ruined himself,
financially, by buying one volume of Origen.
What vast opportunities for intelligence for
you and your childrenl A workingman
goes along by the show window of some
great publishing house and he sees book
that costs five dollars. He says. Il wish
could have that information; wish could
raise five dollars for that 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 day that
is coming.
But 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 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
immensity, 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 ak, and in a carpenter shop
showing himself brother with the trades
men. Owner of all things, and yet on
hillock back Of Jerusalem one day
resigning everything for others. keep
ing not SO much as shekel
to pay for his obsequies. By charity buried
in the suburbs of a city that had cast him
out. Before the cross of such capitalist,
and such carpenter. all men can afford to
shake hands and worship. He is the every
mans Christ. None so high but he was
higher. None SO poor but he was poorer.
AT his feet the hostile extremes will yet re-
nounce their animosities, and countenances
which have glowered with the prejudices
and revenge Of centuries shall brighten
with the smile Of heaven as he commands:
Whatsoever ye would that men should do
to you,. do ye even so to them"