The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-06-04

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 l
am sorry, and we have got to sympathize
with you. don't know how the others
feel, but l propose that we take off
twenty per cent. from our wages, and
that when the times get good you will
remember us and raise 'hem again."
rades, and says: Boys, what do you say
to this? All in favor of my proposition
will say ay." "Ay! ay! ay!" shout 200
voices.
But the mill-owner, getting in soM o
new machinery, exposes himself very
much, and takes cold, and it settles into
pneumonia, and he dies. In the process.
sion to the tomb are all the workmen,
tears rolling down their checks, and off
upon the ground; but an hour before the
procession gets to the cemetery tho
wives and the children of those worllmen
are at the grave waiting for the arrival
of the funeral 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 cabins of the work.
ing-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, lowering
over the scene, the benediction of God
and man is coming for the fulfillment OF
the Christlike injunction, whatsoever
We would that men should do to you, do
We even so to them"
son. says some man here, "that is all
Utopian, that is apocryphal, that is i'm
possible" No, cut out of paper this:
lone of the pleasantest incidents re-
corded for 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 of
one of the largest steel works hit upon
a device as rare as it was generous.
They offered to work for their employ.
ers one week without any pay whatever.
How much better that plan is than .
strike would be?"
But you 60 with me and will show
you-not so far off rs Sheffield, England
fac tories, banking 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 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 be-
gin? In our homes, in our stores, on
our farms-not waiting for other people
to do their duty. Is there divergence
now between the parlor and the kitchen?
Their there is something wrong, either
in the parlor or the htchen, perhaps in
both. Are the clerks in your store
irate against the firm? Then there is
something wrong, either behind the
counter or in the private Office, or per.
haps in both.
The great want of the world to-day Is
the fulfillment of this Christ-lilSe in.
junction, that which lie promulgated in
His sermon Olivetic. All the political
economists under the archivolt of the
heavens, in convention for thousand
years. can not settle this controversy
between monopoly and hard work, be.
tween capital and labor.
During the Revolutionary. War there
was heavy piece of timber to be lifted
perhaps for some fortress, and Cor.
poral was overseeing the work, and he
was giving commands to some soldiers
as they lifted: "Heave away, there! W
heave!" Well, the timber was too
heavy; they could not get it up. There
was gentleman riding by on horse
and he stopped and said to this Corporal
why don't you help them lift" Tha
timber is too heavy for them to lift.
NO" he said 81 won't: am Corporal.
The gentleman got off his horse ant
came up to the place. Nov" he sail
to the soldiers, "all together-y'
heave!" and the timber went to its place
Now said the gentleman to the Cor
poral, "when you have a piece of timbe
too heavy for the men to lift and yo,
want help, you send to your comman
der-in-chief." 1t was Washington! Now
that is about all the Gospel know-th
Gospel of giving somebody a lift, lif
out OF darkness, lift out Of earth int
Heaven. That is the Gospel of helping
somebody else to lift.
oh" says some wiseacre, "talk a
you will, the law Of demand and suppl
will regulate these things until the en-
Of time" No, it will not, unless 60
dies and the batteries OF the Judgmen
day are spiked, and Pluto and Prosel
pine, king and queen of the inferna
regions, take full possession of thi
world. Do you know who Supply an
Demand are? They have gone int
partnership, and they propose to swindl
this earth, and are swindling it. 70
are drowning. Supply and Deman
stand on the shore, one on one side. tn
other on the other side Of the life-bo
and they cry out to you, Nov, you la
us what we ask you for getting you t
shore, or 60 to the bottomw II you ca