Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-19

" pau; don't make t20 where useQ 10 maho
slOO. Somehow there is no demand now Tor
what we manufacture or but very little de-
mand. You see, am at vast expense, and
nave called you together this AFTERNOON 10 see
what you would advise. don't want TO smut
up the MILL because that would force you out
OF work. and you have always been very faith
ful, and like you, and you seem to like me,
and the BARNS must be looked after, and your
wife will after awhile want new dress.
don't know what to do"
There is a dead halt for a minute or two and
then one Of the workmen steps out from the
ranks OF his fellows, and says: BOSS, you have
been very good to US, and when you prospered
we prospered and now you are in tight place.
and am sorry, and we have got TO sympathize
with you. l don't know how the others feel
but propose that we take of 20 per cent from
our wages, and that when the times get good
and you will remember us and raise them
again." The workman looks around to his
comrades, and says Boys. what do You say
to this? All in favor of my proposition VIII
say ay." "Ay! ay! ayr shouts 200 voices.
chinery. exposes himself very much, and takes
cold, and it settles into pneumonia, and he
dies. In the procession to the tomb are all the
workmen. tears rolling down their cheeks,
an d of upon the ground; but an hour De1ore
the procession gets to the cemetery the wives
and the children OF those workmen are at the
grave waiting for the arrival of the funeral pa
geant The minister of religion may have de-
livered an eloquent eulogium before they
started from the house. but the most impress
sive things are said that day by the working
classes standing around the tomb.
THE MEMORY OF THE JUST.
That night all in the cabins of the working
people where they have family prayers, the
widowhood and the orphanagc in the mansion
are remembered. No glaring population look
over the iron fence Of the cemetery; but, hover
ing over the scene, the benediction of God and
man Is coming for the fulflment Of the Christ
like injunction, Whatsoever ye would that
men should do to you, do We even so to them"
"Oh," says some man here. "that is all Uto-
plan. that is all apocryphal, that is impossi-
ble." No. cut out OF paper this: 'One Of
the pleasantest incidents recorded in q long
time is reported from Sheffield. England. The
wages Of the men in the iron-works at Sheffield
are regulated by board of arbitration, 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 EN-.
ployers nor employed have the power to
change. To avoid this difficulty, the workmen
in one OF the largest steel-works IN Sheffield hit
upon device as rare as 1t was generous. They
offered TO work for their employers one week
without any pay whatever. How much better
that plan is than n strike would be-"
But you go with inc and will show you-no
so far of as Sheffield. England-factories, bank
ing houses stcrehouses, and costly enterprises
where this Christ-like injunction Of my text is
fully kept and you could no more get the en-
ployer TO practice an injustice upon his men. or
the men TO conspire 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 beginf 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 kitchenf Then there is something wrong,
either in the parlor or the kitchen, perhaps in
both. Are the clerks in your storc irate against
firm? Then S0mRfhinN
either behind the counter. or in the private
Office, or perhaps in both. The great want Of
the world to-dayi is the fulflment of this Christ
like Injunction, that which He promulgated in
His sermon Olivetic All the political ccono-
mists under the archivolt Of the heavens in
convention for thousand years, cannot settle
this controversy between monopoly and hard
work, between capital and labor.
A LESSON WASHINGTON TAUGHT.
During the Revolutionary War there was a
heavy piece OF timber to be lifted, perhaps for
some fortress, and a corporal was overseeing
the work, and he was giving commands to some
soldiers as they lifted: "Heave away, there
yo heavew Well, the timber was too heavy:
they could not get it up. There was a gentle
man riding by on a horse, and he stopped and
said to this corporal, "Why don't you help
them lift :? That timber is too heavy for them
TO lift" NO" he said. II won't; / am a
The poe sSs of hi: sS horse
the soldiers "all together-yo heave y 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 Com
mander-in-Ch 1t was Washington! Now
that is about all the gospel l know-the gospel
of giving somebody a lift, lift out of dark
ness, a lift out of earth into heaven. That is
the gospel of helping somebody else 20 lift.
"Oh," says some wiseacre, talk as you will.
the law of demand and supply will regulate
NHaeo lTrarro fhrn n e.,
not. unless God dies and the batteries of the
judgment day are spiked, and Pluto and Pros
erpine, king and queen of the Internal regions
take take. full of Of this world Do
have gone into partnership. and they propose
to swindle this earth, and are swindlinp it You
are drowning. Supply and Demand stand on
the shore. one on one side the other on the
other side, of the lifeboat, and they cry out to
you,. Nov, you pay US what We ask you for get
ting you to shore or go to the bottomr' If Won
can borrow SoOOO you can keep from failing in
business. Supply and Demand say Now. YOU
pay us exorbtant usury or you 90 into bank
ruprcyr' This robber firm of Supply and De-
mand say to you: The crops are short, We
bought up all the wheat, and it is in our bin.
Now, you pay our price, or starver' That is
your magnificent law of supply and demand
Supply and Demand own the largest mill on
earth. and all the rivers roll over their wheel
and into their hopper they put ali the men
women and children they can shovel out of the
centuries and the blood and the bones redden
the valley while the mill rrinds. That diaboiic
law OF supply aud demand will vet have to
stand aside, and instead thereof will come the
law of love- the law of cooperation. the law of
kindness, the law Of sympathy, the law of
Christ
Have you no idea of the coming of sncb n
time? Then you do not believe the Bible. All
the Bible is full of promises on this subiect
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 William E. Dodges and George
Peabodys AS that time comes there will be
moro parks, more picture galleries. more gar
dens thrown open for the holiday people and
the working classes.
The time is going to come when, If you have
anything in your house worth looking at-pic-
lures. pieces of sculpture-you are going to in
vite me to come and see it: and you will saw.
'See what have been blessed with God has
given me this, and. so far as enjoying it, it is
yours ALSO" That is gospel
In crossing the Allegheny Mountains, many
years ago, the stage halted, and Henry Clay
dismounted from the stage, and went out on a
rock at the verge OF the cliff, and he stood
there with his cloak wrapped about him, and
he seemed to be listening for something Some
one said to him: What are you listening for?''
standing there, on the top of the mou ntain, he
said: II am listening to the tramp of the foot
steps OF the coming millions of this continent"
a Sabine posture for an American statesman
You anosI to-day stand on the mountain-top of
privilege, and on the Rock of Ages, and we
look on, and we hear coming from the future
the happy industries and smiling populations
ana tne consecrated fortunes and the innumer-
able properties of the closing nineteenth aud
the opening twentieth century.
ana now have two words, one to capitalists
and the other to laboring men.
To capitalists: Be your own erecutors
Make investments for eternity. Do not be like
some capitalists 1 know who walk around
among their employees with supercilions air.
or drive up to the factory In a manner which
seems TO Indicate they are the autocrat of the
universe, with the sun and the moon in their
vest pockets. chiefly anxious when they 90
among laboring men not to be tonched Nv t66e
greasy or smirched hand and have their broad
cloth injured. Be Christian employer. Re
member, 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 arc
immortal. Divide up your estates or portions