The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-06-04

lence and contrary to toe law will never ac-
complish anything, but Righteousness and ac-
cor,ling to law will accomplish it. :.
Well, if this controversy between capltaI
and labor cannot be settled by human Wis
dom, it is time for us to look somewhere else
for relief, and it points from my text roSeats
and jubilant, and puts one hand Oh the
broadcloth shoulder OF capital, ana puts the
other hand Oh the homespun covere1 shoui-
der of toll. and says with voice that will
grandly and g.oriously settle this and settle
everything ''Whatsoever ye would tnat
men should do to you, do ya even SO to them"
That is. the lady Of the household will say:
81 must treat the maid in the kitchen just as
I would like to be treated if were down.
stairs, and it We're my work to wash and
cook, and sweep AMI it wera the duty OF the
maid in the kitchen to presidein the paror."
The maid in the kitchen must say: "If my
employer seems to bs more prosperous taan
l. that is no fault Of hers; shall not treat
he. as an enemy. / will have the same i'll
dustry and fidelity downstairs as I would eI-
pact from my subordinateS If | happened to
be the wife of silk importer"
The owner OF an iron MILL having taken
dose of my text before leaving hone in thu
morning will gointo his foundry. and, pass
ing into what is called the pudding roon
he will see man there stripped to thu waist,
and besweated and exhausted with the labor
and the to, AMI he will say to him: why.
it seems to be very hot in here. You LOOK
very nue. exhausted. I hear your child is
sick with scarlet fever. If you waat your
wages little earlier this week, 50 as to pay
the nurse and get the msdicins5 just coma
into my ofics any time"
After awhile, crash goes the money mar.
ket, and there is no more demand fer tbs
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 I cut down thu mems
wages? He walks ths floor Of his counting
room all day. hardly knowing waa5 to do.
Toward evening he calls all the laborers TO-
gether. They stan1 all around, soma with
arms akimbo, some foldsi arms, wondering
what the boss is going to do nov; The manu-.
facturer says: "Men, business is bad; don't
make twenty dollars where I used to make
one hundred. Somehow, there is no demand
now for what we manufacture, or but very
little demand. You se,, I am at vast expense,
and have called you together this afternoon
to sea what you would advise. don't want
to shut up tins mill, because tnat would forcs
YOU out Of work, aud YOU have always beel
very faithful, aud like you, and You seem
to like me, and the BARNS must be locke
after, and your wife will after awhile want
new dress don't know what to do"
There is dead halt for minute or two,
and then one of the worSmen steps out from
the ranks of his fellows and says: BOSS,
YOU have been very good to us, and waen
you prospsrel we pToSpere1, and now you
are in tight place, ana am sorry, AMI We
have got tn sympathize with you. don't
know how the others feel, but propose taat
we take off twenty per cent. from oar wages,
and that when thu times get goo1 you will
remember US and raise them again" Ths
workman looks around b his comrades AMI
says: "Boys, what do you say to this? All
in favor of my proposition Will say ay."
SAY! ay! ay" shouted two hundred VOICES
But the mill owner, getting in som, 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, telrs rolling down their
caeels and or upon the groun1; but an hour
before the procession gets to the cemetery tna
wives and children of those worHmsn 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 tae tomb.
That night in all the cabins OF the working
people where they have family prayers, the
widowhood and the orpaanage in the man.
sion are remembered. No glaring po2uia-
tions look over the iron fence of the ctms-
terry; but lowering over the scene, the bene-
diction Of God and man is coming for thu
fulfllment of the ChriSt-like injunction,
"Whatsoaver ye would that men should do
to you, do yc even 50 10 them"
"Oh." says sono man here, shat is all
Utopian, that is apocryphal, that is inn
possible" No, l cut out OF paper this:
n,o ,ta-t 1aotc lad in
a long time is reported from Sheffield, Eng
land. The wages of the men in the iron
works al 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 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 to change. To
avoid this difficulty, the worHmen in one OF
the largest steel works in Sheffield hit upon
q 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 strike would be-"
But you 90 with me and will show you
not so far off as Sheffield, acknowledgements,
banking houses store houses and costly en-.
terprises where this Christ-like injunction Of
my texts fully kept, and you could no mora
get the employer to practice an injustice
upon his men, or the men toconspire against
the employer, than you could get yoar rigit
hand and your left hand, Your right eye AMI
your left eye, your right ear anil your LEFT
ear, into physiological antagoais1. Now,
where is this to bsgin? In OR hon,s in our
stores, on our farms-not waiting for other
people to do their duty. Is there diver5-
ence now between the parlor and the
kitchen? Then there is something wrong,
either in the parlor or the kitclen; porhapS
in both. Are tho clerks in your store irAte
against the firm? Then there issonething
wrong, either behind the counter 2: in ths
private Office, or perhaps in both.
The great want of the world to-day is the
fulflment of this Christ-like Injunction,
that which He promulgated in His sermon
Olivetic. All the political economists un-
der the archivo!t Of the heavens in conven-
tion for q thousand years cannot settle
this controversy between monopoly and hard
WORK, between capital and labor During
the Revolutionary war there was 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 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 cor
pora!, why don't you help them lift?
That timber is too heavy for them to lift
''No" he said won't; I am a corporal"
The gentleman got off his horse and came up
to the place. Now he said to tho soldiers,
"all together--yo heavem and the timber
went to its place. Now said the gentle
man to the corporal when you have apiece
of timber too heavy for the man to lift, and
you want help, you send TO your Commander.
in-Chief." 1t was Washington! Now, that
isabout all the gospel l know-the gospel of
giving somebody lift, a lift out Of dark
ness, a lift out Of earth into heaven. That
is the gospel of helping somebody else to lift.
ooh" saws some wiseacre. "talk as you