Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-05-22

knot out Of the nuckle Of toll. or put one
farthing OF wages into a callous palm. Bar
barism viii neyer cure the wrongs OF civil
ization. Mark thatl
Frederick the Great admired some land
near his palace at Potsdam and he resolved
TO get it. 1t was owned by miller. He
offered the miller three times the value of
the property. The miller would not take il,
because itwas the old homestead. and he
felt about 1t as Naboth felt about his vine-
yard when Ahab wanted il. Frederick the
Great was O rough and terrible man, and he
ordered the miller into his presence; and
the king. with stick in his hand-a stick
with which he sometimes struck his officers
OF state-said to this miller: Now, have
offered you three time the value Of that
property. and II you won't sell it I'll take it
anyhow The miller said: Your majesty.
you won't Yes" said the king. I viii
take 1t. Then said the miller, IF your
majesty does take it 1 will sue you in the
chaneery court At that threat Frederick
the Great yielded his infamous demand.
And the most imperious outrage against the
working classes will yet cover before the
law. Violence and contrary to the law will
never accomplish anything, but righteous
ness and according to law will accomplish
1t.
The owner Of an iron mill. having taken a
dose Of my text before leaving home in the
morning. will go into his foundry, and,
passing into what is called the pudding
room. he will see a 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 child is sick with scarlet fever.
Ii want your wages q 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
market. and there is no more demand for
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 enening he calls all the
laborers together. They stand all around,
some with arms akimbo. some folded arms,
wondering what the boss is going to do
now. The manufacturer says: Men, busi-
ness is bad; l don't make twenty dollars
where used to make one hundred. Some
how. there is no demand 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 to 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"
There is dead halt for minute or two.
and then one OF the workmen 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 I am sorry, and we
have got to sympathize with you. l don't
know how the others feel. but Ipropose that
we take on 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."
"Ayl ay! ayl" shouts 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 are
all the workman, 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 work.
men are at the grave waiting for the arrival
OF the funeral pageant. The minister of re-
ligion may have delivered an eloquent
house, but the most impressive things are
said that day by the working classes stand
ing around the tomb
That night in all the cabins of the working
people where they have family prayers, the
widowhood and orphanage in the mansion
are remembered. No glaring populations
look over the iron fence Of the cemetery;
but, lowering over the scene, the benedic-
ton OF God and man is coming for the full
fillment of the Christlike injunction, What
soever We would that men should do to YOU
de ye even so to them"
But you go with me and will show you
mot so far off as Sheffield, England-fac-
tories, banking houses, store houses. and
costly enterprises where the 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
oonspire against the employer, 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 physiologi-
cal antagonism. Now. where is this to be-
gin2 In our homes, in our stores. on our
farms-not waiting for other people to do
their duty. Is there divergence now be-
tween 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 irate against the
firm? Then there is something wrong,
either behind the counter, or in private
office, or perhaps in both.
The great want of the world to-day is the
ful1llment OF this Christlike Injunction, that
which he promulgated in his sermon Oil
vetic. All the political economists under
the archivolt Of the heavens in convention
for thousand years cannot settle this con-
troversy 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 a corporal was overseeing the
work. and he was giving commands to some
soldiers as they lifted: "Heave away, therel
70 heave!" Well, the timber was too heavy;
they could not get it up, There was a
gentleman 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,
Il 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 heavel" and the timber went to it's
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 Washington Now, that is
about all the gospel know-the gospel of
giving somebody lift. a lift out Of dark
ness. lift out Of earth into heaven. That
is the gospel Of 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 time"
No, 1t will not, unless God dies and the bat
teries 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 part
nership, and they propose to swindle the /
earth and are swindling it. You are drown 4
ing. Supply and Demand stand on the
Shore-one on one side, the other on the