Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-22
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new machinery, exposes himself very
much and takes cold, and it settles into
pneumonia and he dies. In the process
sion TO the tomb are all the workmen g.,
tears rolling down their cheeks and off
upon the ground; but an hour before the
| procession gets to the cemetery the wives
and the children OF those workmen are
at the grave, waiting for the arrival of
the funeral pageant. The minister of
religion may have 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 in all the cabins of the
working people where they have family
prayers, the widowhood and the orphan
age in the mansion are remembered, No
glaring populations look over the iron
fence of the cemetery; but lowering over
the scene, the benediotiou of God and
man is coming for the fulfilment of the
Christlike Injunction, Whatsoever ye
would that men should do to you, do We
even SO to them.
'Oh, says some man here, Hthat is
all Utopian, that is apocrYphal, that is
impossible. - No, l cut out of paper
this: "One of the pleasantest incidents
recorded IN long time is reported from
Sheffield. Eng. The wages of the men
In the iron works at Sheffield are regu-
lated by board of arbitration, by whose
decision both masters and men are
bound. For some time past the iron and
steel trade has been extremely unprofita-
BILE, and the employers cannot, without
much loss, pay the wages fixed by
the board, which neither en-
ployers nor employed have the power
to change. To avoid this difficulty, the
workmen in 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 strike would be. -
But you go with me and 1 will show
you-not SO far off as Sheffield, England
factories, banking houses, storehouses
and costly enterprises where this Christ
like injunction of my text is fully kept,
and you could no more get the employer
to practice an injustice upon his men, OF
the men to oonspire against the en-
ployer, 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 antagon-
ism. Now, where Is this to begin? In
our homes, in our stores, on our farms
not waiting for other people to do their
duty. Is there divergence now between
the parlor and the kitchen? Then there
is something wrong either in the parlor
or in the kitchen, perhaps in both. Are
the clerks IN your store irate against the
firm? Then there is something wrong,
either behind the counter or in the
private office, or perhaps IN both.
The great want of the world to-day is
the fulflment of this Christ-like IN
junction, that which he promulgated in
His sermon OlivetIc. All the political
economists under the archivolt of the
heavens in convention for a thousand
years, cannot settle this controversy be-
tween
MONOPOLY AND HARD WORK,
between capital and labor. During !
the revolutionary war there was a heavy
piece of timber to be lifted, perhaps for |
some fortress, and a corporal was over |
seeing the work, and he was giving |
commands to some soldiers as they lifted: !
"Heave away, thereI 20 heave!'
Well, the timber was too heavy; they |
could not get it up. There was a gentle |
man riding by on horse and he stopped |
and said to this corporal, "Why don't
you help them lift? That timber is too
heavy for them to lift "No," he
said, 81 won t; am corporal. - The
up to the place. ''Now,'' he said to
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. - 1t was Wash
ngtonl Now, that is about all the
gospel 1 know-the gospel of giving
somebody lift, lift out of darkness,
lift out of earth into heaven. That is
The gospel off helping somebody else to
lift.
:'Oh,' says some wiseacre, "talk as
you will, the law of demand and supply
will regulate these things until the end of
line. - No, it will not, unless God dies
md the batteries of the Judgment day
Ire spiked, and Pluto and Proserpine,
King and queen of che internal regions,
AXE full possession of this world. Do
'ou know who supply and demand are?
They have gone into partnership, and
hey propose to swindle this earth, and
re swindling it. You are drowning.
supply and demand stand on the shore,
ne on one side, the other on the other
ide, of the lifeboat, and they cry out to
'ou: "Now, you pay us what we ask
'ou for getting you to shore, OF go to the
If you can borrow $4,000 you
an keep from failing in business. Sup
ly and demand say: "Now, you pay
IS exorbitant usury, or you go into
This robber firm of
upply and demand say to you: "The
rops are snort. We bought up all the
heat, and it is in our bin. Now, you
ay our price, or starved" That is
our magnificent law of supply and de-
land.
Supply and demand own the largest
ill on earth and all the rivers roll over
heir wheel, and into their hopper they
ut all the men, women and children
hey can shovel out of the centuries and
he blood and the bones redden the valley ,
hIle the mill grinds.
HAT DIABoLICAL LAW OF SUPPLY AND
DEMAND
Till yet have to stand aside, and instead .
hereof Will come the law of love, the
W of cooperation, the law of kindness, 7
lie law of sympathy, the law of Christ.
Have you no idea of the coming of such '