The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1890-05-22

iered the miller three times ths value ut ths
property. Tn miller woui not take IT, be
cause IL was tne old honest .ad. and he felt
about II rs Naboth felt about his vineyard
when Ahab wanted IT, Frederick the Great
was rough and terrible man, and he ordered
the miller into his presence and the King,
with stick in has hand-a stick with which
he sometimes struck his officers OF state said
10 this miller: Now, | have offered you
three times the value Of that property. and
II you won't sell i I'll take it anyhow The
miller said. Your Majest YOU won't y
Yes" said the King, II will take it,"
Then said the miller, III your Majesty
does take II | will sue You in the chancery
court AT that threat Frederick the Great
yielded his infamous demand Aud the most
imperious outrage against the working
classes will vet cower before the law Nio-
lence and contrary to the law will never ac-
complish anything, but Righteousness and ac-
cordiug to law will accomolish IL.
Well II this controversy between capital
and labor cannoC be settled by human wis
dom, IL Is time for us u look somewhere else
for relief. and it points from my text roseate
and iubilant, and puts one hand on the
broadcloth shoulder OF capital. and puts the
other hand on the homespuu covered shou'-
der of toi and says. with voice that will
grandly and gloriously settle this and settle
everything. Whats )evsr We would that
men should do u you do We even 80 To thpm"
. inhN -, NtlH lhlN VI tue nOur'nOhu VIII NdN
II must treat the maid in the kitchen just A.
| woull like Ia be treated If | were down
stairs. and IL were my work to wash. and
cook, and sweep AMI IL were thu duty ot the
maid in the kitcnen 60 preside in the parlor.'
The maid In the kitchen must say: III my
employer seems u bs more prosperous than
l. that j. no fault OF hers: | shall not treat
hcr "A, an eu'my. | will hays the sim' in.
dustry and fidelity downstairs ~ | would ex-
prct from my subordinatsS II | happ'ncl tb
be the wife OF II silk importer
The owner ~ an iron mill, having tlien
dos, " my text before leaving hpnA ia tho
morning, WILL gointp his foun lrv. aul. pIss.
ing into what is chllel the pulling room,
he will sea inan there stripped to the vast
and bhswrate and exhausted with the labor
aud tn toll. an ne will Sly - him; Why
Il seems b Ue very hot in here. You LOOK
very mu"h exha.sted. | hear your CHILD Is
sicS with scarlet fever IL YOU want your
wages little earlier this wssk. :, aS u pay
the nurse aud get the medicines, just com,
into my oAics any time
After awhile. crash goes the money mar.
k"t, and there Is no more demand fer the
articles manufacture in that iron mill and
the owner does not know wnat t. do. lie
says "Shall | stop the mill, or shall | run "
on half time. or shall cut down the men ,
wages" He walks thu floor nf his counting
room all day. hardly knowing what to do.
gether. They stanl all around, some with
arms akimoo. some foidsl arms, won lering
what the boss ~ going tO dn now. The IN anu.
facturer SAYS: Men buSiueS, /, bad; don't
make twenty dollars wner. I uS,l L. make
one nun irrt. SoT. .now, th'rh is M demand
now 10: wlat " mNnuta ',ur', ~ but very
little demnr. You -. am AT vast exp su>r.
aud | nee rallei You together this afternoon
to 80. VIVA. yoa would advise don't want
, smut u" tn, MILL becau1e that would fore
you "us ~ WORK, aud You have always been
very faithful. and like you. ani you seem
- Ike m, and the BARNS must be looSe
after. aui your wife will after awhile want n
nav dress. don't know what to do
There is IA dead halt for IA minut, or two,
and then one os the "orkmen steps out fro n
the ranks of his fellows and says; Boss,
You have been very good to Us, and when
you proSDered We prOsperel and now you
are in n tight place, and am sorry, aud We
have got T. Sympathiz, with you. don't
know how the Others feel. but propose that
we take OIL twenty per cent. from our wages,
and that when the times get good you will
I remember Us and raise them again The
workman looks around t. his comrsde' and
says: Boys. what do YOU say Ia this, Al
in favor of my proposition will say ay.
"Ay' ay, ay" shouted two hundred voices.
But the mill owner. getting in some new
machinery. exposes himself very much. and
| takes cold and il settle, into pneumonia aud
| he dies. In the procession 10 the tomb ar,
all the workmen. tears rolling down their
cheeks and oif upon the ground; but AN hour
before the procession gets to the cemetery tn,
wives and children ~ thosa workmen are al
tue grave waiting 10" the arrival ot the fu
neral pageant. The minister uf religion may
have delivered an eloquent eulogium before
they started from the mouse, but the most
impressive things are said that day bv th'
working classes standing around the tomb.
That night in all the cabins of the working
people where they have family prayers tn,
widowhood and the orphanags in the man
sion are remembered. No glaring popua
tions look over the iron fenc" of the c.me
terry: but lowering over IN" scene the bene
dictiDn OF God aud man X coming for tn,
falfllment of the Chrst-liks injunction,
Whatsoever We would that men should d,
20 you, do ye even 50 70 taem.'
OH says some man here that is all
CtOpian, TN & is apocrYphnl, that Is lm
possible No, | cut out Os paper this
"One OF the pleasanUest incident, recorded il
n long time Is reported from Sheffield, Eng
land The wages oi the men in the iroI
works at Sheffield are regulated by boar,
OF arbitration, by whose decision botl
masters and men are bound. For some tim'
past the iron and steel trade has been ex
rremely Improbable, and the employer can
not, without much loss pay the wages IKE,
by the hoard, which neither employers no
. employed have the power to change. T,
avoid this difficulty, ths workmen in one O
the largest steel works in Sheffield hit upoi
a device as rare as IL was generous. They
offered to work for their employers one weei
! without any pay whatever. How muci
better that plan Is than "A strike would be
But you 90 with me and will snow you
not so far of as Sheffield England-tactories
banking houses, store houses, and costly en
terprises whore this Christ-like injunction OF
my text is fully kept, and you could no mor'
get the employer to practice an inlustic
upon his men, or the men 10 cOnspire aganS
the employer, than you could get your rI3hl
hand and your left hand, your right eye AN
Your left eye, your right ear AMI your lef
ear, into physiological antagonism Now
where is this 20 gin, In our homes, in Oul
stores on our farms--not waiting tor Othe
p,ople 20 do their duty. Is there a diyerg
rnca now between the parlOr and tn
kitchen, Then there Is something wrong
either in the parlOr or the kitchen, parhap
in both. Are the clerks in your store irtt.
against the firm? Then there is somethin;
wrong either behind the counter, OF IN TIA
private office, or perhaps in both,
The great want of the world to-day is tn
fuhlment OF this Christ.liks injunction
that which He promulgated in His sermon
Oliyetic. All the political economists IN
der the archivolt OF the heavens IN conven
ton for "A thousand years cannot settl
this controversy between monopoly and har
worG between capital and labor Durin,
the Revolutionary war there was heav