Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-05-24

L, that Is no faulC OF nerS; snail mol TeaG
her as an enemy will have the same in
dustry and fidelity downstairs as would eS-
pect from my subordinates if | happened to
be the wife of a silk importer
The owner of an iron mill, having taken
@ dose of my text before leaving home in the
morning, will gointo his foundry, and, pass
ing into what is called the pudding room,
he will see man there stripped to the waist,
and besweated and exhausted with the labor
and the toll, and he will say to him: why,
it seems to be very hot in here. You look
very much exhausted. hear your chud IS
sick with scarlet fever. II you want your
wages little earlier this week, so as to pay
the nurse and get the medicines, just come
into my Office any time"
After awhile, crash goes the money mar
ket, and there is no more demand fer the
articles manufactured in that iron mill, and
the owner does not know what to do. He
says, ''Shall stop the mill, or shall I 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 tho laborers to-
gether. They stand al around, some with
arms akinbo some folded arms, wondering
what the boss is going to do now. The manu-
facturer says: "Men. business is bad; don't
make twenty dollars where ] used to make
now for what we manufacture, or but very
little demand. You see, am at vast expense,
and have called you together this afternoon
to see what you would advise. don't want
10 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, and your wife will after awhile want a
new dress don't know what to do"
4 holt for min tyyN
and then one of the worknen steps out from
the ranks of his fellows and says; BOSS,
you have been very good to US, and when
you prospered we prospered. and now you
are in tight place, and am sorry, and we
have got to sympathizs with you. l don't
know how the others feel, but propose that
we take off twenty per cent. from our wages.
and that when the times get good you will
remember us and raise them again. The
workman looks around to his comrades and
says: ''Boys, what do you say to this? All
in favor of my proposition will say ay."
'Ay ayi ayr shouted two hundred voices.
But the mill owner. getting in some new
machinery. exposes himself very much and
takes cold and it settles into pneumonia and
ne dies In the procession to the tomb arc
all lie workmen, tears rolling down their
cheeks and off upon the ground; but an hour
before the procession gets to the cemetery the
wives and children of those worllnnen are at
the grave waiting for the arrival of the fu-
oeral pageant. The minister of religion may
nave 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 the tomb.
That night i'll all the cabins OF the working
people where they have family prayers, the
widowhood and the orphanage in the man
sion are remembered. No glazing popula-
lions look over the iron fence of the Gene
terry: but lowering over the scene. the bene-
diction of God and man is coming for the
fulfillment of the Christ-lile injunction.
whatsoever We would that men should do
to you, do ye even 50 to them"
ooh" says some man here, shat is all
Utopian, that is apocryphal, that is i'm
possible" No. cut out OF paper this:
Zone OF the pleasantest incidents recorded i'll
long time is reported from Sheffield, Eng
land The wages Of tho men in the iron
works at 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 eS-
tremely improbable. and the employer can,
not. without much loss, pay the wages fixed
BIZ the board, which neither employers nor
emploved have the power to change. To
avoid this difficulty. the workplen i'll one of
the largest steel works in Sheffield hit upon
a 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 q strike would be"
But You 90 with me and will Show you
not so far off as Sheffield England-factories,
banking houses. store houses, and costly en-
terprises where this Christ-lilie injunction OF
my TEXTS fully kept, and You could no more
get the employer to practice an injustice
upon his men, or the men toconsplre against
the employer, than you could get your right
your left eye your right ear and your lett
ear. into physiological antagonism. Now,
where is this to Begin IN our homes in our
stores. OH or farnls-not waiting for other
people to do their duty. Is there dlverg-
ence now between the parlor and the
kitchen? Then there is something wrong,
either in the parlor or the kitchen; perhaps
in both Are the clerks in your store lrate
against tile firm? Then there issomethlng
wrong, either behind the counter, OF III the
private Office, or perhaps in both.
The great want of the world to-day is the
fulflment of this Clirist-like injunction,
that which He promulgated in His sermon
Olivetic. 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 aud hard
work, between capital and labor. during
the Revolutionary war there was heavy
piece CT timber to be lifted, perhaps Tor
some fortress, and q 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 1t up.
There was gentleman riding by, on a
horse, and he stopped and said to this co.,
poral, 'Why don't you help them lift?
That timber is too heavy for them to lift
':No,' he said, ! won't: [ am Il corporal"
The gentleman got off his horse and came up
to the place Now lie saidto the soldiers,
''all tosc.l.er--yo heavem and the timber
went to lis place Nov said the gentle
man to the corporal when you have piece
of timber too heavy Tor the men to lift, and
Won want help. you send to your Commander
i,-Chief.' Ii was Washington! Now, that
sahous Ill tic gospel lIncw-the gospel OF
giving somebody u lift, lift out OF dark
ness. a lift cut Of earth into heaven. That
is the gospel Of helping somebody else to MT.
OH says some wiseacre, talk as you
will. the law OF demand and supply will
regulate these things until the end of
time" No, it 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
swindle this earth and are swindling 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
go to the bottomw If You can borrow $4,000
you can keep from failing in business. Sup
ply and Demand say: 'iNow, you pay us ex
orbitant usury or you so into bankruptcy:
This robber firm of Supply and Demand say
to you: THE crops are short. We bought
up all the wheat and 1T is. in our bin. Now,
you pay our price or starvep 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