Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-05-22

'sWhatsoever We would that men should do
to you, do ye even so to Them
"Oh, y says some man here, that is all
Utopian, that is apocryphal, that is impos-
sible." No, Icut out of a paper this: Ono
of the pleasantest incidents recorded IN a
long time is reported from Sheffield, Eng
and The wages of the men in the iron
workssat Sheffield are regulated by board
of arbitration, by whose decision both mas
tiers 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 workmen in one
| of the largest steel works in Sheffield hit
upon 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 a strike
would be"
GOLDEN RULE CORPORATIONS.
But you go with me and will show you
not so far off as Sheffield, England-fac-
tories, banking houses, store houses, and
costly enterprises where this Christlike
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 you right hand and your left
hand, your right eye and your left eye,
your right ear and your left ear, into physi-
illogical antagonism Now, where is this
to begins In our homes, in our stores, on
our farms-not waiting for other people to
do their duty. Is there a divergence now
between the parlor and the kitchens Then
there is something wrong, either in the
parlor or the kitchen, perhaps in both.
Are the clerks in your store irate against
the firmi Then there is something wrong,
either behing the counter, or in the private
office, or perhaps in both.
The great want of the world today is the
fulfillment of this Christlike injunction,
that which he promulgated in his sermon
Oliyetic. All the political economists I'M
der the archivolt of the heavens in conven-
ton for a 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 oversee
ing the work, and he was giving commands
to some soldiers as they lifted "Heave
was too heavy; they could not get it up.
There was a gentleman riding by on
horse, and he stopped and said to this cor
poral, "Why don't you help them lift
That timber is too heavy for them to lift
mo-" he said, ~ won't; am corporal"
The gentleman got off his horse and came
up to the place Now" he said to the
soldiers, ''all together-yo heave" and the
timber went to its place. "Now," said the
gentleman TO the corporal, when you have
piece Of timber too heavy for the men to
lift, and you want help, you send TO your
commander-in-chief." II was Washington
Now, that is about all the gospel know
the gospel of giving somebody lift, a lift
out of darkness, a lift out of earth into
heaven. That is the gospel of helping
somebody else TO lift.
"Oh,n says some wiseacre, talk as you
will, the law of demand and supply will
regulate these things until the end OF
time" No, 1t will not, unless God dies
and the batteries of the judgment day are
spiked, and Pluto and Proserpine, king
and queen of the Internal regions, take full
possession of this world. Do you know
who Supply and Demand are? They have
gone into partnership, and they propose to
swiHdle this earth and are swindiing it,
You are drowning. Supply and Demand
stand on the shore-one on one side, the
other on the other side of the life boat, and
they cry out TO you: ''Now, You pay us
what we ask you for getting you TO shore,
or 90 to the bottomP If you can borrow
5000 you can keep from failing in bust
ness Supply and Demand say "Now, you
pay Us exorbitant usury or you go into
bankruptcy This robber firm of Supply
and Demand say to you: "The crops are
short We bought up all the wheat and it
is in our bin. Now, you pay our price or
starveln That is your magnificent law of
supply and demand.
Supply and Demand own the largest mill
ON earth. and all the rivers roll over their
wheel, and into their hopper they put all
the men, women and children they can
shovel out Of the centuries and the blood |
and the bones redden the valley while the
mill grinds That diabolic law of supply |
and demand will yet have to stand aside, |
and instead thereof will come the law Of |
love, the law of cooperation, the law Of |
kindness, the law of sympathy, the law Of |
Christ.
A RECONCILIATION Is PROMISED.
Have you no idea of the coming of such |
a timer Then you do not believe the Bible. |
All the blDlt Is Illll Oh PROMISES on InlS L
subject, and as the ages roll on the time
will come when men of fortune will be
giving larger sums to humanitarian and
evangelistic purposes, and there will be
more James Lenoxes and Peter Coopers
and William 4. Dodges and George Pea
bodys As that time comes there will be
more parks, more picture galleries, more
gardens thrown open for the holiday peo-
pie and the working classes
was reading some time ago, in regard
to charge that had been made in England
against Lambeth palace, that it was exclu-
sive; and that charge demonstrated the
sublime fact that to the grounds of that
wealthy estate eight hundred poor families
had free passes, and forty croquet compa-
MES, and on the half day holidays four
poor people recline on the grass,
walk through the paths, and sit under
the trees. That is gospel-gospel on the
wing, gospel out of doors worth just as
much as in doors. That time is going to
come.
That is only hint of what is going to
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