The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-05-29


be the wife OF a silk Importer"
The owner of an iron mill, having taken
dose Of my text before leaving hona in tho
morning, will gointo his foua IT,, an pass
ing into what is clllei tho pudding roam,
he will 500 man there stripped to thu waist,
and beswestel AMI exhausted vita th, hoe
and the toll, an no will say t. him; "Way,
ii seems to be very hot in here. You loDi
very much exhausted. l hear your chilli Is
wages a little earlisr tAls wseS, So as TO pay
the nurse aud get tho medicines, Just coma
into my o.iics any time"
After awhile, crash goes the money mar.
ket, and there Is no more demand fer the
articles manufactured in that iron mill. AMI
the owner does not know what to do. He
says, "Shall stop the mill, or shall run it
on half time or shall cut down the mems
wages@ He walks ths flooc OF his counting
room all day, hardly knowing what TO do.
Toward evening he calls all the laborers to-
gether. They stand all around, soma with
arms akimbo, some foldet 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 usei to make
one huulred. Somshow, there isno demand
now for what we manufacture OF but very
little demand. You sea, am at vast expense,
and have called you together this afternoon
to SEQ what You would advise. don't want
to shut up the MILL because that would forcs
you out Of work, anl You have always bssn
very faithful, and like you, AMI you seem
to like me, and the BARNS must DO looEel
after. and your wife will after ayaile want
new dress. | don't know what to do"
There is dead halt for a minuts or two,
and then one OF the work nen steps out from
the ranks of his fellows aud says; Boss,
you have been very good to US, an wien
you prosperei We pros2erel, and now you
are in tight place. anl am sorry, AMI We
have got to sympithi1s with you. don't
know how the 9th, rs feel, but propose that
we take of twenty par cant. from oar wages,
and that when ths TINS get goot you will
remember us and raise them again" The
workman looks around to his comrades an !
says: "8oys, what do you say to thtsG All
in favor of my proposition will say ay."
"Ayl ayl ayr shouted two huldrs1 voices.
But the mill owner, getting in soma new
machinery, exposes himself very much, and
takes cold aud itsettles into pnsamonia AMI
he dies. In the procession to the tono are
all the workmeu, tears rolling down their
cheeks and off upon the groun1; but an hour
before the proc sssion gets to the cemetery thu
wives and children of taoS, workmen are at
the grave waiting for the arrival OF the fu-
neral pageant The minister of religion may
have delivered an eloquent euloglum before
they started from the house, bat the m 1st
impressive things are said that day by the
working classes stin1iag aroun the ton1.
That night in ali tde cabins of the worxiu.
people waere they have family prayers, ths
widowhool and thu orphauage in tas man
sion are remembered. No garing pooIla-
tons LOOK over the irol fencs OF the cAme
terry; but lowering over the scans, the bane
dicJ IN of Col AMI man is coming for th3
fu,illment of the Christ-like injunction,
Whatsoever We would that men should do
to you, do We even 50 to them"
ooh" says some man here "that is all
Utopian, that is apocrYpha', that is inl-
possible No, | cut out of paper this!
Zone OF the pleaSantest incidents recorded in
a long tins is reported from Sheffield, Eng
land. The wages OF the men i'll tue iron
works at Sheffield are regulated by board
of arbitration, by whose decision both
masters and men are bound. For scms 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 "a one OF
the largest steel works in Shetfield hit upon
a device as rare as it was generous. They
offered to WORK for their e nployers one wees
without any pay whatever. How much
better that plan is than striks wosld be"
But you 20 with me AMI | vii! slov yol-
not so far off as SheHad, En- gland, factories,
banking houses, store houses AMI costly en-
terprises where this Carist-lik3 in Iul,tiOn Of
my text is fully kept, aud you couldn more
get the employer to practice al injustice
UPON his men, or the men to cons ors against
the enployer, than you could ge5 you: rlsat
hand and your left han |. your ri INT eye an
your left eye your ri yh5 ear an yJlr let
car, into physio.o gical antagonist. Now.
where is this to osI in. In on ~ n,s, in our
stores, OH our farns---;ot waiting for OTHER
people to do their duty. Is thare diverg.
ence now between tbs parior aui tia
kitchen? Thea there is so netting wrong,
either in the parior o. ths kitchen; perhaps
in both. Are the ce:,ls in your stora irats
against the firm? Then there issonethny
wrong either behin the counter, O. in the
private o.tice, or perhaps in ooth.
The great want of the w5rld to-day is the
fulfilment Of tnis Christ-like injunction
that which He promulgated in His sermon
Olivetic. All the political economists i'm.
der the archivolt of the heavens il conven-
ton for 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 fol-
some fortress, and a corporal was overseeing
the work, and he was giving command:
to some soldiers as they lifted: "Heavt
away, there! 70 heavem 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
poral, "Why don't you help them lift
That timber is too heavy for them to lift
"No," he said, | won't; am corporal
The gentleman got off his horse and came u.
to the place. Now" he said to the soldiers
"all together--yo heaven and the timber
went to its place. snow" said the gentle
man to the corporal, when you have a piect
of timber too heavy for the men to lift, ant
you want help, you send to your Commander
in-Chief." 1t was Washington! Now, tina
is about all the gospel know--the gospel o
giving somebody a lift, lift out of dark
ness, a lift out of earth into heaven. Tha
is the gospel of helping somebody else to lift
'Oh," says some wiseacre, talk as 20
viii, the law OF demand and supply Wi
regulate these things until the end o
time" No, it will not, unless God die
and the batteries of the judgment day ar
spiked, and Pluto and Proserpine, kin;
and queen Of the Internal regions take full
who Supply and Demand are? They hav
gone into partnership, and they propose t.
| swindle this earth and are swindling it
You are drowning. Supply and Demant
| stant on the shore-one on one side, tn
other on the other side of the life boat, an
they cry out to you: Now, you pay u
what we ask you for getting you to shore, O
| goto the bottom" If you can borrow $500
| you can keep from failing in business. Sup
ply aud Demand say: ''Now, you pay us ex
oroitant usury or you go into bankruptcy
This roboer firm of Supply and Demand sa,
TO you: "The crops are short. We bough
up all the wleat and 1t is in our bin. Now
| you pay our price or starvem That is you
magnificent law OF supply AMI demand.
! Supply and Demand own the largest mil
on earth, and all tbs rivers roll over thei
wheel. and into their hopper they put all tn
men, women and children they can shove
| out of the centuries aud thu blood AMI tn
bones redden the valley while the mill grinds
That diabolic law of supply and demand vii
| yet have to stand aside, and instead thereo
will come the law of love, the law of &C
| operation, the law of kindness, the law o
| sympathy, the law of Christ.
Have you no idea of the coming of such
| time? Then YOU do not believe the Bible
All the Bible is full OF promises on this sub
| ject, and as the ages roll on the time vii
come when men of fortune will be givin
larger sums to humanitarian and evangt
listic purposes, and there will be NOR
James Lenoxes and Peter Coopers and vii
lam Z. Dodges and George Peabodys. A
that time comes there will be more park
more picture galleries, more gardens throw
open for the holiday people and the wori
ing classes.