Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-05-19

! hcart. As Il result OF one OF our great
American strikes you find that the
operatives lost four hundred thousand
dollars worth Of wages, and have had
poorer wages ever since. Traps sprung
suddenly upon employers, and violence,
never took one knot out of the knuckle
of toll, or put one farthing of wages
into callouS palm. Barbarism will
never cure the wrongs of civilization.
Mark that
THE REAL REMEDY.
Well, If this controversy between Cap
| ital and Labor cannot be settled by hui
man wisdom, it is time for Us to look
somewhere else for relief, and it points
| from my text roSeate and jubilant, and
puts one hand on the broadclotch Shout
der of Capital, and puts the other hand
on the homeSpun covered shoulder Of
| Toll. and says, with a voice that will
grandly and gloriously settle this, and
settle everything. Whatsoever We
would that men should do to you, do We
/ even SO to them" That is, the lady Of
the household will say: Il must treat
the maid in the kitchen just as | would
/ like TO be treated If l were down stairs,
and il were my work to wash, and cook,
and sweep, and it were the duty
of the maid in the kitchen to
/ preside in this parlor." The maid
+ i'm the kitchen must say: If my en-
IplOyer seems to be more prosperous than
I /. that is no fault of hers; shall not
treat her as an enemy. will have the
same industry and fidelity downstairs
as l would expect from SubordinateS, if
/ / happened 10 be the wife of silk i'm
porter
| 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 puddlng-roOm. he will see a man
there stripped TO the waist, and beSweat-
/ ed and exhausted with the labor and the
toll, and he will say to him; "Why. it
seems % be very hot in here. You look
very much exhausted. hear your child
/ is sick with scarlet fever. If you want
your wages a little earlier this week, so
as 70 pay the nurse and get the medi-
zines, 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 | run it on half-time, or
shall | cut down the mems wagcS|'
/ He walks the floor of his counting-rOOm
all day. hardly knowing what 10 do.
/ Toward evening he calls all the laborSrS
/ together. They stand all around, some
with arms akimbo, some with folded
arms. wondering what the boss is going
| % do now. The manufacturer says:
Men. business is bad; don't make
twenty dollars where | used to make
one hundred Somehow, there is no de-
mand now for what we manufacture, or
/ but very little demand. You see | am
at vast expense, and | have called
YOU together this afternoon 10
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 faithful, and | like
You, aud You seem TO like me, and the
/ BARNS must be looked after, and your
wife Will after awhile want new dress.
/ don't know what to do"
There is dead halt for a 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
10 us: aud when you prOSpered we pros
pered. aud now YOU are in tight place,
and 1 am sorry. and we have got TO SYM
pathize with YOU. l don't know how
the others feel, but l propose that we
take oil 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 COM
radeS. and says: Boys, what do you
saw 10 this? All in favor Of my propo-
sition will say ay." "Ay. ay. ay." shout
TWO hundred voices.
TIE WANT OF THE WORLD.
The great want of the world to-day
is the fulfllmcnt of this Christ-like in
junction. that which He promulgated
lin His sermon Olivetic. All the politl-
cal economists under the archivolt oil
the heavens i'm convention for thou-
sand wears. cannot settle the contro-
versv between monopoly and hard work
between capital and labor During the
Revolutionary War there was heavy
niece of timber to be lifted, perhaps Tor
some fortress. and corporal was over
seeing the work, and he was giving
commands to some soldiers as they
lifted: "Heaye away, there, yo heaYe!
Well. the timber was too heavy
they could not get il mp. There