Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-05-24


After awhile. crash goes the money mar
| ket, and there is no more demand fer the
4 articles manufactured in that iron mill. and
| the owner does not know what to do. He
says, 'Shall stop the MILL or shall run it
on half time or shall | cut down the mems
/ wages" He walks the floor of his counting
| room all day, hardly knowing what to do.
! Toward evening he calls all the laborers to-
! gether. They stand all around, some with
arms akinllSo, some folded arms, wondering
| what the boss is going to do now. The manu-
/ facturer says Men, business is bad; don't
/ make twenty dollars where ! used to make
| one hundred Somehow, there is no demand
| now for what we manufacture, or but very
little demand You seq, am at vast expense,
| and have called you together this afternoon
to sea 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 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 don
! There is 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 prospere1 and now you
are in tight place, and am sorry, and we
have got to sympathize with you | don't
know how the others feel, but propose that
we take off twenty per cent. from our wages,
and that when the times get good you will
| remember us and raise them again" The
workman looks around to his comrades and
says Boys, what do you say to this2 All
| in favor of my proposition will say ays
GAY ayl ayr shouted two hundred voices.
But the mill owner, getting in some new
machinery, 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 and off upon the ground but an hour
before the procession gets to the cemetery the
wives and children of those workmen are at
| the grave waiting for the arrival of the fu-
neral pageant. The minister of religion may
have delivered an eloquent eulogium before
they started from the house, but the most
/ impressive 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 orphanage in the man
sion are remembered. No glaring popula-
/ lions look over the iron fence OF the csme-
/ terry; but lowering over the scene, the bene-
l diction of God and man is coming for the
I fufillment of the Christ-like injunction.
Whatsoever We would that men should do
/ to you, do ye even SO TO them
/ "0h," says some man here that is all
| Utopian, that is apocryphal. that is i'm
possible No, | cut out OF paper this:
{ Zone of the pleasaltest incidents recorded in
a long time is reported from Sheffield. Eng
/ land. The wages of the men in the iron
works at Sheffield are regulated by a board
7 of arbitration, by whose decision both
( masters and men are bound For some time
past the iron and steel trade has been ex-
tremely Improbable and the employer can
not, without much loss, pay the wages fixed
by the board, which neither employers nor
employed have the power 10 change. To
avoid this difficulty, the workmen in one of
the largest steel works in Sheffield 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 than a strike would be
But you go with me and will show you
not so far off as Sheffield. England factories,
banking houses store houses, and costly en-
terprises where this Christ-like injunction of
my text is fully kept and you could no more
get the employer to practice an injustice
upon his men, or the men toconspire against
the employer, than you could get your right
hand and your left hand. your right eve and
your left eve, your right ear and your left
ear, into physiological antagonism. Now,
where is this to begin2 In our homes, in our
stores on our farms--not waiting for other
people to do their duty. Is there diverg-
ence now between the parlor and the
kitchen? Then there is something wrong,
either IN the parior or the kitchen; perhaps
in both. Are the clerks in your store irate
against the firmY Then there is something
\
private Office, or perhaps in both.
The great want of the world to-day is the
fulflment of this Christ-ike injunction,
that which He promulgated in His sermon
Oivetic. All the political economists un-
der the archivolt of the heavens in convelI-
I ton for a thousand years cannot settle
/ this controversy between monopoly and hard
/ wora, between capital and labor. During
J the Revolutionary war there was a heavy
/ piece of timber to be lifted, perhaps for
! some fortress, and corporal was overseeing
| the work, and he was giving commands
/ to some soldiers as they lifted: "Heave
away there yo heaven Well, the timber
was too heavy; they could not get it up.
/ There was a gentleman riding by on a
horse and he stopped and said to this cor
1 pora', why don't you help them lift?
| That timber is too heavy for them to lift
''No," he said, | won't; I am corporal"
The gentleman got off his horse and cameup
TO the place. Now, he said to the soldiers,
all together--yo HEAVIER and the timber
/ went to its place Now" said the gentle
man TO the corporal, when you have piece
/ of timber too heavy for the men to lift, and
| you want help you send to your Commander
! ln-Chief y II was Washington Now, that
is ABOUT all the gospel 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 TO lift
/ oh" says some wiseacre, talk MS you
viii, the law of demand and supply will
regulate these things until the end of
time No. it will not, unless God dies
and the batteries Of the judgment day are
spiked, and Pluto and Proserpna king
4 and queen of the Internal regions take full
/ possession of this world Do you know
who Supply and Demand are? They have
| gone into partnership, and they propose to
swindle this earth and are swndling it,
/ You are drowning. Supply and Demand
/ stand on the shOrc-one on one side the
other on the other side of the life boat. and
they cry out to you Now, you pay us
what we ask you for getting you to shore, or
/ go to the bottomm If you can borrow 5000
you can keep from failing in business. Sup
ply and Demand say; "Now, you pay us ex-
orbitant usury or you go into bankruptcy
! This robber firm of Supply and Demand say
to you: THE crops are short We bought
up all the wheat and 1t is in our bin. Now,
, You pay our price or starvew 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 all the
men, women and children they eau shovel
! out of the centuries and the blood AMI the
+ bones redden the valley while the mill grinds
] That 6iabolic law of supply and demand will
yet have to stand aside and instead thereof
will come the law of love, the law of co.
/ operation, the law of kindness the law of
sympathy, the law of Christ
Have you no idea of the coming of such
/ timer Then you do not believe the Bible
/ All the Bible is full of promises on this sub
/ ject, and as the ages roll on the time will
come when men of fortune will be giving
/ larger sums to Humanitarian and eyange-
hstic purposes, and there will be more
James Lenoxes and Peter Coopers and Will
lam E. 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 work
ing classes.
was reading some time ago, in regard to
a charge that had been made in England
against Lambeth palace that it was exclu-
slve; and that charge demons trated the
sublime fact that to the grounds of that
! wealthy estate eight hundred poor families
had free passes, and forty croquet companies.
and on the half day holidays four thousand
poor people recline on the grass, walk
through the paths and sit under the trees.
out of doors worth Just as much as in doors
That time is going tocome.
That's only hint of what is going to be-
The timeis going TO come when, if You have
| anything in your house worth looking at
pictures, pieces of sculpture--you are going
TO invite me to come and see it: YOU are go
ing to invite my friends to come AMI see it.
and you viii say, ''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 dismounte1 from tl1a stare and want