The Red Cloud chief., 1891-04-03

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hand of toll that had been wrung and
worn ont and blistered until the skin
came of should be placed against the
elegant wall paper. leaving its mark Of
blood-four fingers and O thumb; or
that some day. walking the halls, there
should he a voice accosting the occu-
pant saying, six cents for making q
shirt" and. flying the room. another
voice should say, Twelve cents for an
army blanket" and the man should try
to sleep at night. but ever and anon be
aroused, until getting up on one elbow,
he should shrek out, who's there?"
One Sabbath night, in the vestibule
Of my church after service, i woman
fell in commissions. The doctor said
h needed medicine not so much as
something 10 eat As she began 10 re-
vive in her delirium, she said gaspingly:
Eight cents! Eight cents, / wish I
could get it done; ] am so tired, wish
] could get some sleep, but must get
IT done! Eight cents! Eight cents
We fOupd afterward she Was making
garments for eight cents apiece, and
that she could make but three Of them
in a day! Three times eight are twenty
four. Hear II, men and women who
have comfortable homes.
Some of the worst villains OF the city
are the employers Of these women.
They beat them down 20 the last penny,
and try % cheat them out Of that The
woman must deposit a dollar or two be-
fore She gets the garments to work on
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spected, the most insignificant flaws
picked out, and the wages refused and
sometimes the dollar deposited not
given back
A merchant can, 20 the last item, be
thoroughly honest. There Is never any
need Of falsehood Yet how many will,
day by day, hour by hour. utter what
they know 20 he wrong? You say that
you are selling at less than cost IL so,
then il Is right 10 say it. But did that
cost you less than what you ask for IL?
II not. then you have falsiHed.
You may consider il insignificant be-
cause relating 10 an insignificant pur-
chase. You would dcspise the man
who would falsify in regard TO some
great matter in which the city or whole
country was concerned, but this is only
a box Of buttons or a row of pins or a
case OF needles Be not deceived. The
article purchased may be SO small you
can put II in your vest pocket, but the
sin was bigger than the pyramids and
the echo Of the dishonor will rcverber-
ate through all the mountains of eter-
nifty.
~, l-zny =, $3.50. t.ll. .z--, --.ot
mems of handkerchiefs. Your customer
asks: rs that all silk2 no cotton in ftp"
You answer: at is all silk" Was il all
silk? II so. all right But was il part
ly cotton? Then you nave falsified.
Moreover, you lost by the falsehood.
The customer. though he may live at
Lynn, or Doylestown, or Poughkeepsic,
will find out that you nave defrauded
him and next spring when he again
comes shopping he will look at your
sign and say: i Will not try there.
That IL the place where ! gotthat hand
kerchief." SO that by one dishonest
bargain you picked your own pocket
and insulted the Almighty.
In the mex: place | notice mechanical
lies There Is no class of men who ad-
minister more 10 the welfare of the city
than artisans. To their hand we
must look for the building that shelters
Us, the garments that clothe Us, for the
car that carries us They WELD q wide |
spread influence. There is much deris-
ion OF what is called muscular Christi
anity," but in the latter day Of the
worlds prosperity / think that the
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he right Ia expect of those stalwart
men Of toll the highest possible integ-
rity. Many of them answer our high
est expectations and stand at the front
of religious and philauthropic enter
priscs.
But this class, like the others that j
have named, has in il those who lack In
the element of veracity. They can not
all bc trusted. In times when the de-
mand for labor il great il is impossible
TO meet the demands of the public Or
do work with that promptness or per-
lection that would at other times bc
possible. But there are mechanics
whose word cannot Toe trusted AT any
time. No man has n right 10 promise
more work than he can do. There are
mechanics who say that they will come
on Monday, but they do not come until
Wednesday. You put work in their
hands that they tell You shall be com
plcted in ten days, but 1t is thirty.
There nave been houses built of which
il might lee said that every nail driven,
every foo Of plasiering put on. every
yard Of pipe laid. every shingle ham
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OF falsehood connected Herewith.
There are men attempting to do ten or
fifteen pieces of work who nave not the
time or strength to do more than five or
six pieces; but 10y promises never full
filed keep all the undertakings within
their own grasp This is what they
call nursing" the job.
How much wrong To his soul and in
suit 10 God n mechanic would save. IL he
promised only 50 much rs he expected
Ia be able Ia do. Society has no right
10 ask of You Representatives, You can
no; always calculate correctly. and You
may fail because you cannot get the
help that you anticipate. But now I
am speaking Of the willful making Of
promises that you know you cannot
keep Did You say that that shoe should
BE- mended, that coat repaired. those
bricks laid. that harness sewed, thai;
door grained. that spout fixed. or that
window glazed by Saturday. knowing
that you would neither he able TO do il
yourself o get any "a else TO do it?
Then before God and man you are q liar.
/ next notice ecclesiastical lies; that
is, falsehoods told for the purpose Of
advancing churches and sects or for 5
the purpose Of depicting them. II i I
almost impossible for one denomination +,
Of Christians without prejudice or mis- .
TO state the sentiment
Of an opposing sect II a man haste I
frcsbyterians, and you ask him what ;
Prcsbvterians believe, he will tell you !
they believe that there are infants c
in hell a span long. i
IL il strange also how individual
churches Will sometimes make nisstate- I
'ncnts about other individual churches :
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