The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-05-28

ions both masters and ,nen are bound.
For some time past the iron and
steel trade has been extremely un-
profitable, and the employers cannot.
without much loss, pay the wages
| fixed By the board, which neither.
employers nor employed have the
power to change. To avoid this diff
Guilty, the workmen in one OF the larg-
| est steel work, in Sheffield hit upon
device rs rare US il WAS generous.
They offered to work ioI tI"ir en-
Dloyers one week without any a2y
whatever. How much better that pl;tn
is shan strike would be-
fNlt you so with me and I will show
you.-not so far off as Sheffield, En-
gland - factories, banking houses,
store-houses and costly enterprises
where this Chlist-like 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 your right hand
and your left hand, your right eye shd
your left eye, your right ear and
your left ear, into physiological an
tagonism. Now, whore is this to be-
gin? In our homes, in our stores. on
our farms-not waiting fo' other peo-
pie to DO their duty. Is there di-
rergcnce now between the parlor and
the kitchen? Then there is something
wrong, either in the parlor or III the
Eitche en-, perhaps in both. Are the
clerks in your stores irate against
the firm! Then there is something
wrong, either behind the counter,
CT in the rri7sts Office or perhaps
both.
The great want of Of the world to-
day is the fulfllment Of this Christ
like injunction, tnat which He pro
mulgatca in Eis sermon Olivetic.
"Oh, says some wiseacre, ''talk as
you will. the law of demand and sup
ply will regulate these things until
the end of time" No, it viii not TN
less God dies and the batteries of The
judgment day are spiked, and Pluto
and Proserpine. king and queen OF
the Internal regions, take full posses
sion Of this world. Do you know
who Supply and Demand are? They
have gone into partnership, and they
propo.e to swindle this earth, ard
are swindling it, You are drowning.
Supply and Demand stand on the
shore, one one side, and the other
on the other side Of the llfe-boat, and
they cry out to you, Now you pay
uswhat We ask you for getting you
to the shore. or so to the bottom"
Il you can borrow $4,000 you can
keep from falling in business. Sup
ply and Demand say, Now, You pay |
us exorhitant usury, Or you go into
Bankruptcy" This robber firm OF
Supply and Demand say to you:
The crops are short. We boug hi |
up all the wheat, and it is IN our bin.
Now, you pay our price or starve.
That is your magnificent law Of sup
ply and demand.
Supply and Demand own the larg |
est mill on earth, and al the rivers
roll over their wheel, and into their
hopper they put al the men, women
and children they can shovel out Of
the centrniesand r.the blood and the
bones rcddcn the valley while the
mill grin8s. That diabolical lew Of
supply and demand WI! yet have to
stand aside, and instead thereof Will
come the law OF love, the law OF CO
operation, the law of kindness. the
law OF sympathy, and the lew Of
Christ.
I was reading some time ago, in
regard to charge that had been made
in England against Lambeth Palace,
that it was exclusive; and that charge
demonstrated the sublime fact that
to the grounds of that wealthy estate
600 poor families had free passes, and
forty croquet companises, and on
the halliday holidays 1000 poor peo-
pie 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 ahint of what's going
to be. The time is going to come
when, if you have anything in your
house worth looking at-pictures,
pieces Of scrlpture-you are going to
invite me to come and see it; you are
going to invite my friends to come
and see it, and you will say, "See what
7 have been blessed with. God has
gwen me this, and, SO far as enjoying
It. it is yours also" That is gos-
pei.
And now 7 have two words, one to
capitalists and the other to laboEing
men.
TO capitalists. Be your own ex-
ecutors. Make investments for eter-
nifty. Donot be Ike some capitalists
I know who walk around among
their employees with superclious
air, or drive up to the factory in q
manner which seems to indicate they
are the autocrats Of the universe With
the sun and the moon i'll their vest
pockets. chiefly an1iouswhen they go
among then. laboring men not to be
touched by the greasy or smlrched
hand and have their broadcloth in
irred Be o Christian employer.
Remember, those who are under
your charge are bone OF your bone
and flesh OF your flesh, that Jesus
Christ died for them and that they
are immortal. Divide up your cs-
tstes or portions with them, for the
relief Of the world, before you leave
it. Do not go out Of the world Ike
| that man who died eight OF ten years
ago, leaving in his will S20.000,O0C,
yet giving how much for the Church
of God? How much for the alleyia-
ton Of human suffering? he gave
, l. L.