The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-08-08


her as an enemy. will have the same in.
dustry and fidelity downstairs as 1 would ex-
pect from my subordinates if 1 happened 70
be the wife Of a silk importer
line oSnar OF an iron mill, having taken
a dose Of my text before leaving home in the
morning, will gointo his foundry, and, pass
ing into what is called the pudding room,
he Will see man there stripped to the waist,
and besweated and exhausted with the labor
and the toll, and be win say to him: ''Why,
1t seems to be very hot in here. You look
very y 1ch exhausted. / hear your child is
sics WITT scar 81 lever. II you want your
wages a 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 the money mar
ket, and there is no more demand fer the
articles manufactured in that iron mill. and
the owner does not know what to do. He
says Shall l stop the mill, or shall run it
oD half time, or shall cut down the mems
iFagesY 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 akimbo, 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 l used TO make
one hundred Somehow, there isl demand
now for what we manufacture, or but very
little demand. You see, I am at vast expense,
and have called you together this afternoon
to see what you would advise. 1 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 me, and the BARNS must be looked
kfser, and your wife will after awhile want 2
new dress. don't know what to dor
There is a dead halt for 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 a tight place, and l 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 thiss All
in favor of my proposition will say ay-'
'.Ayi ayl ayr shouted two hundred voices.
But the mill owner, getting in some new
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 payers, the
widowhood and the Orphanage In the man
sion are remembered No glaring popula-
III ~.
terry; but lowering over the scene, the bene-
liction of God and man is coming for the
fulfillment of the Christ-like injunction,
Whatsoever ye would that men should DO
10 you, do ye even SO 20 them"
'Oh.n says some man here, that is all
Utopian that is apocryphal, that is i'm
possible" No, l cut out of a paper this:
'One of the pleasantest incidents recorded in
1 long time is reported from Sheffield, Eng
and. The wages of the men in the iron
works at Sheffield are regulated by board
If arbitration, by whose decision both
masters and men are bound For some time
last the iron and steel trade has been ex-
iremely Improbable, and the employer can
lot without much loss, pay the wages fixed
~ the board, which neither employers nor
Employed have the power &c change To
lvoid this difficulty, the workmen in one Of
he largest steel works in Sheffield hit upon
/ device as rare as it was generous. They
,ffered to work for their employers one week
Without any pay whatever. How much
)etter that plan is than a strike would be-"
But you 90 with me and will show YOU
lot so far off as Sheffield, England-factories
,anLing houses store houses, and costly en-
erprises where this Christ-like injunction Of
ny text is fully kept, GTld you could no more
,et the employer to practice an injustice
lpOn his men, or the men to conspire against |
he employer, than you could get your right
Iand and your left hand, your right eye and |
our left eye, your right ear and your left |
ar, into physiological antagonism. Now, /
There is this to beging In our homes, in our |
torres, on our farms-not waiting for other 1
eople to do their duty. Is there a diverg- |
nee now between the parlor and the |
itchen3 Then there is something wrong. |
ither in the parlor or the kitchen; perhaps |
4 both. Are the clerks in your store irate
gainst the firm2 Then there is something |
rrong, either behind the counter, or in the /
rivate Office, or perhaps in both.
I grea5 want of the world to-day is the |
ulf.n Of this Christ-iike injunction, /
nat which He promulgated in His sermon
'livetic. All the political economists I'M
er the archivoIt of the heavens in conven-
on for a thousand years cannot settle
MS controversy between monopoly and hard
-orx, between capital and labor During
he Revolutionary war there was n heavy
iece of timber to be lifted, perhaps for
,ms fortress, and a corporal was overseeing
lie work, and he was giving commands
, some soldiers as they lifted: ''Heave
way, there! 20 heaven Well the timber
as too heavy; they could not get it up.
here was gentleman riding by on a
orse, and he stopped and said to this cor
oral, "Why don't you help them liftg
,1,.r- fort 70, !
No" he said, 1 won't; am corporal
he gentleman got off his horse and cameup
, fhe place. Now he said to the soldiers,
all together-yo heaven and the timber
ent to its place Now said the gentle
AN to the corporal, ''when you have piece
timber too heavy for the men TO lift, and
On. want help, you send to your Commander
Chief" It was Washington Now, that
about all the gospel know-the gospel Of
wing somebody lift, lift out of dark
sss, lift out of earth into heaven. That
fhe gospel of helping somebody else to lift.
i'Oh," says some wiseacre, "tslk as you
Ill, the law or demand and -ypi, III
'gulate these things until the end OF
me-" No, it will not, unless God dies
Id the batteries of the Judgment day are
liked, and Pluto and Proserpine, king
I'd queen of the internal regions, take full
'sseSsion of this world Do you know
ho Supply and Demand are? They have
NE into partnership, and they propose to
indie this earth and are swindling it.
GU are drowning. Supply and Demand
and on the shOre-one on one side, the
her on the other side of the life boat. and
ey cry out to you: NOW, you pay US
hat we ask you for getting you to shore, or
to the bottom" II you can borrow $1,000
u can keep from failing in business. Sup
y and Demand say: Now. you pay US ex-
bitant usury or you go into bankruptcy
lis robber firm of Supply and Demand say
you: 1.-THE crops are short. We bought
81 the wheat and 1t is in our bin. Now,
N pay our price or starver That is your
agnificent law of supply and demand.
Supply and Demand own the largest mill
earth, and all the rivers roll over their
heel, and into their hopper theyput all the
en-. women and children they can shovel
1t of the centuries and the blood and the
mes redden the valley while the mill grinds.
nat diabolic law of supply and demand will
It have to stand aside, and instead thereof
i'll come the law of love- the law Of CO
Ieration, the law of kindness, the law OF
mpathy, the law of Christ.
Have YOU no idea of the coming Of such a
me? Then you do not believe the Bible.
u the Bible is full Of promises on this sub
CT and as the ages roll on the time will
me when men of fortune will be giving
rser Suns to humanitarian and eyange-
tic purposes, and there will be more
.mes Ienoxes and Peter Coopers and Will
m Z. Dodges and George Peabodys. As
at time comes there will be more parks,
ore picture galleries, more gardens thrown
len for the holiday people and the work
2 classes.
l was reading some time ago, in regard 20
in. /