Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-06-05

dollars worth Of wages. and have had poor
er wages ever since Traps sprung sud
denly upon employers, and violence. me- CT
took one knot out Of the knuckle OF toll, OF
pat one farthing OF wages into a callous
palm. Baroarism will never cure the
wrongs Of civilization Mark that!
Well, il this controv ersy between Capital
and Labor cannot be settled by human
Wisdom, it is time for US to look somewhere
else for relief, and it points from my text
roseate and jubilant, and puts one hand on
the broadcloth shoulder of Capital and
puts the other hand on the homespun- Gov
cred shoulder Of Toll. aud says. with a
voice that will grandly and gloriously
settle this and settle everything, "What-
soever We would that men should do to You,
do ye even so to them" That is. the lady
OF the household will say: II must treat
the maid in the kitchen just as l would
like to be treated If I were down stairs,
and 1t were my work to wash, and COOK,
and sweep, and it were the duty OF the
maid in the kitchen to preside in this par
lor." The maid in the kitchen must say:
III my employer seems to b more pros
porous than l, that is no fault Of hers; l
shall not treat her as an enemy. / will
A0So VIC SoAuo AuuuStCy Ouu AuSAtJ Uo"u-
stairs as l would expect from my SUBJ
ordinates, If happened to be the wife Of q
silk importer"
The owner Of an iron mill, having taken
dose Of my text before leaving home in
the morning, will 60 into his foundry, and
passing into what is called the pudding
room, he will SEQ man there stripped to
the waist, and besweated and exhausted
with the labor and the toll, and he will say
to him: "wh by, it seems to be very hot in
here. You look very much exhausted. I
hear your child Is sick with scar ct fever.
II you want your wages a little earlier this
week, so as to pay the nurse and got the
medicines, just come into my Office any
time"
After awhile, crash goes the money mar.
ket and taere is no more dsmanl for 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 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 together. They stand all
around, some with arms akimoo, somo
with folded arms, wondering what the
boss 10 going to do now. Tho manufac-
turer says. "Men, business is bad; Idon't
make twenty dollars where used to make
one hundred. Somehow. there is
no demand now for what we manufacture,
or but little demand. You see, I am at
vast expense, and have called you togeth.
err this afternoon to sac 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, ami
your wife will after awhile want new
dress. don't know what t, do"
There is dead halt for a minute or two.
and then ono Of tn, workmen steps out
from the ranks OF his fellows, an SAYS:
BOSS, you have been very good to US, and
when you prospered we prospsrel, and now
you are in tight place, AMI am sorry.
and we have got to sympathize with you
l don't know how the others feel, but I
propose that we take of twenty psr cent
from our wages, and that when the times
got good you will rememeber Us AMI raise
them again." The workman looks around
to his comrades, and says ''Boys, what do
you say to this! AL In favor OF my propo.
siton will say ay. LAY! ay! ayw
shout two hundred voices.
But the mill-owner, getting in some new
machinery, exposes hims III very m lch, and
takes cold, AMI 1t settles into pneumonia,
and he dies In the procession to the tomb
are all the worknen, tears rolling down
their cheeks, and on upon the ground; but
I'm hour before the procession ,ts to the
cemetery the wives and the children OF those
workmen are at the grave waiting for the
arrival OF the funeral pageant The min.
lister OF religion may have delivered an
eloquent eulo GUM before the 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 tn, work.
ing-peoplc where they nave family prayers,
the widownood and the orphAnaxs in tn
mansion are remembered. No glarinv
populations look over the iron fence of the
cemetery; but, lowering over this scens.
the ben sdiction OF God and man is coming
tor tho fuifllment Of tn !, Chri,tiike in1unc.
ton, Whatsoever We would that men
should do to you, do 80 even so to them"
"Oh," says some man here, ''that is all
Utopian. tast 10 apocryphal, that is impos.
sible." No. cut out OF paper this:
Zone Of the pleasantest incidents recorded
in long time il reported from Sheffield.
Dagland. The wages Of the msn in the
iron-works at Shefleld ara regulated Nv q
board OF arbitration. by W ,ose decision
both masters and men are bouod. For some
time past the iron and steel trade has been
extremely Improbable, AMI the employers
cannot, without much loss pay the wages
fixed by the board, whicn either employ.
ers nor employ cd have the power to chan ga
To avoid this difficulty. the workmen in one
of the largest stsel-works in Sheffield hit
upon . device as rare as 1t was generous.
They offered to work for their employers
one week without any pay whatever. How
much better that pan is than strike
would be-"
Hut you go with mo and will show you
not SO far of as Sheffield, England-fac.
tories, banking houses, store- houses, and
costly enter prises where this Christie like
injunction is kcpt and you could no more
get the employer to practice an injustic,
upon his men, or the men to cons pire
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 antag
onism. Now, where Is this to begina In
our homes, in our stores, on our farms
not waiting for other people to do their
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