News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-22


terry; but, lowering over the scene,
the benediction of God and man is
coming for the fulfllment of the
Christiike injunction, Whatsoever
We would that men should do to you,
do We even so to them.
TT IS F.MINENTLY PRACTICABLE.
ooh" SAYS some man here, that is
all Utopian, that is apocryphal, that is
impossible" No, cut out of paper
this: Zone of the pleasantest incidents
recorded in a long time is reported
from Sheffield, England. The wages
of the men in the iron works at Shelf
field are regulated by a board of ar
bitration, by whose decision both
masters and men are bound. For some
time past the iron and steel trade has
been extremely improbable, and the
employers cannot, without much loss,
nav the wages fixed by the board,
which neither employers nor employ
ed have the power to change. 10
avoid this difficulty, the workmen III
one of the largest steel works in Shelf
field hit upon a device as rare as 1t
was generous. They offered to work
for their employers one week without
any pay whatever. How much better
that plan is than a strike would be. =
But YOU 90 with me and Twill show
vou-not so far off as Sheffield, Eng
and-factories, banking houses, store
houses and costly enterprises where
this Christlike injunction of my text
is fully kept, and you could no more
get the employer to practice an lnJus-
tice upon his men, or the men to con
spire 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 physiological antagonlsm.
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 the kitchen, perhaps
in both. Are the clerks in your store
irate against the firm2 Then there IS
something wrong, either behind the
counter, or in thu private office, or
perhaps in both.
The great want of the world today
is the fulfllment of this Christllke In
junction, that which he promulgated
in his sermon Olivetic. All the polit-
ical economists under the archivolt Of
the heavens in convention for thou
sand years cannot settle this contro-
versy between monopoly and hard
work, between capital ard labor.
During the Revolutionary war there
was a 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 sol
diers as they lifted: "Heave away,
there! yo heaven Well, the timber
was too heavy; they could not get it
up. There was a gentleman rid
ing by on a horse, and he stopped
and said to this corporal: "Why
don't you help them lift2 That
timber is too heavy for them
to lift" NO" he said, Il won't; L am
a corporal" The gentleman got of
his horse and came up to the place
"Now," he said to the soldiers, al
together-yo, heavew and the timber
went to its place. "Now," said the
gentleman to the corporal, 'swhen YOU
have a piece of timber too heavy fol
the men to lift, and you want help
you send to your commander-in- chief.
It was Washington! Now, that il
about all the Gospel l know-the Cos
pei of giving somebody lift, a lif
out of darkness, a lift out of earth int
heaven. That is the Gospel of helpin:
somebody else to lift
"Oh," says some wiSeacre, talk a
YOU will. the law of demand and sup
ply will regulate these things unit
the end of time" No, it will not uI
Nless God dies and the batteries of tn
Judgment day are spiked,' and Plut
and Proserpine, king and queen of tn
internal regions, take full possessio
of this world Do you know VIII
Supply and Demand are2 They hav
gone into partnership, and they pre-
pose to swindle this earth, and al
swindling it. You are drowning
Supply and Demand stands on tn
shore, one on one side, the other o
the other side, of the life boat, an
they cry out to you, Now, you pa
|, us what we ask you for getting you
|, shore, or go to the bottom" If yo
can borrow $4,000 you can keep frol
failing in business. Supply and D.
, mand say, "Now, you pay us exorb
tant usury, or you go into bankrup
cyP' The robber firm of Supply an
, Demand say to you: "The crops al
t short. We bought up all the whea
and it is in our bin. Now, you pa
our price, or starved" That is yor
r magnificent law of supply and d
S mand.