The Russellville Democrat., 1890-05-29


sweated and exhausted with the labor
and the toll, and he will say to him:
why, II seems 70 be very hot In here.
You look very much exhausted. hear
yonr child is sick with scarlet fever. II
you want your wages d little earlier this
week so as TO pay the nurse and get the
medicines, just come into my Office any
| time
! After awhile, crash goes tho money
market, aud there is no more demand
/ for the articles manufactured in that
iron mill, and the owner does not know
what TO do. He says: 'Shall stop tho
mill, or shall run it on half-time, or
shall cut down the mems wages?" He
walks the floor Of his eounting-room all
day, hardly knowing what to do To-
ward evening he calls all the laborers
together. They stand all around.
some with arms alximbo, some with
folded arms. wondering what the
boss is going to do now. The
manufactures says; MEN, business
is bad; | don't make twenty dollars
whore used TO make one hundred
dollars. Somehow, there is no demand
now for what we manufactures or but
very little demand. You see am at
vast expense, and have called you To-
gethel this afternoon to see what you
would advise. | don't want to shut up
the mill, because that would force you
out OF work, and you have always been
very faithful, and l like you, and you
seem to like mo, and the BARNS must be
looked after and your wife win after
awhile want a new dress. don't know
what TO do"
There is dead halt for a minute or
two, and then one of the workmen steps
out from the ranks Of his follows, and
says; ''Boss, you have been very good
10 us, and when you prospered we pros
pered, and now you are ina tight place,
and am sorry, and we have got to sym
pathize with you. dontknow how the
others feel, but propose that we take
off twenty per cent from our wages,
and that when the times get good you
viii remember us and raise them again.
The workman looks around to his com
rades, and says: Boys, what do you
say to this? All in favor OF my PROPOSE
tioa viii say ay." "Ayl ay! ay!" shout
ed two hundred voices
But the mill-owner, getting in some
new machinery, exposes himself very
much, and takes cold, and ii settles in
to pneumonia, and he dies In the pro-
cessiou to the tomb are all the work
mer, tears olling down their cheeks
and of upon the ground; but an hour
before the procession gets TO the GENE
terry the wives and children of those
workmen are at the grave waiting for
tho arrival of the funeral pageant The
minister of religion may have delivered
an eloquent eulogium before they start
ed from the house, but the most inn
pressiye things are said that day by the
working classes standing around the
tomb.
That night in all the cabins OF the
working people where they have family
prayers the widowhood and the orphan
age in the mansion are remembered.
No glaring populations look over the
iron fence of the cemetery; but hover
ing over the scene, the benediction Of
God and man is coming for the fulfill
ment of the Christlike Injunction:
Whatsoever We would that men should
do TO you, do We even so TO them,s
"oh, says some man here, ''that is
all Utopian, that is apocryphal, that is
impossible. No. | cut out of paper
this: zone OF the pleasantest incidents
recorded in 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 un-
profitable, and the employers can not
without much loss, pay the wages fixed
by the board, which neither employers
nor employed have the power to change.
To avoid this difficulty the workmen in
one of the largest steel works in Shelf
field hit upon 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 thap strike would be-"
But you go with me and l will show
you-not SO far of as Sheffield, England
factories, hauking-houses, store-houses
and costly enterprises where this Christ
like injunction OF my text is fully kept,
and you could no more get the employer
10 practice an injustice upon his men.
or the men 10 conspiro against the en-
ployer, than YOU could get your right
hand and your left hand, your right eye
and your lefteye. your rightear and your
left ear, into physiological antagonism.
Now, where is this 70 begin? In our
homes, in our stores, on our farms mot
waiting for other people to do their
duty. Is there divergence now be-
tween the parlor aud 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 firna Then there is some
thing wrong. either behind the counter,
or in the private office, or perhaps in
both
The great want Of the world to-day is
the fulhllment Of this Christlike in
junction, that which He promulgated in
His sermon 'rolivetic, All the polit-
ical economists under the archivolt OF
the heavens. in convention for thou
sand years, can not settle this eontro-
versy between monopoly and hard
work, between capital and labor Dur
AhA tlt ftANAAAtNl4fl war tucft Was a
heavy piece Of timber to lifted. perhaps
for some fortress, and corporal was
overseeing the work, and he was giving
commands 10 some soldiers as they
lifted: Heaye away. thcrei 70 heave.s
Wen, the timber was too heavy;
they could not get il up There
was gentleman riding BY on
a horse, and he stopped and said 70 this
corporal; "Why don't you help them
lst2 That timber IS too heavy for
them 70 lift" NO" he said, II WON'T;
l am corporal" The gentleman got
OF his horse and came up to she place.
Nov he said 10 the soldiers, .all to-
gether- 80 heave,7 and The timber went
Ia is place. Now, said the gentle
man 80 the corporal. when you have a
piece o. timber too heavy for the men
to lift. and you want help, you send 20
your commandments II was
Washington, Now. that Is about all
the Gospel ! EnoW-the Gospel Of CIV