The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-11-02

| the right and duty to command to liver
Second-The hour gives trumpet call
| to the rich.
Wealth is q tremendous power. There
never was an hour when it could do more
directed in right channels. There never
| was an hour il was capable of greater
harm directed in wrong channels. Will
our rich men and women hear the call
| Of God to conservation and TO service in
this the natal hour of new civilization
Mr.. Bellamy has we'll said: "The only
really safe investment of money today
| for those who have more than they want
for present needs is to put it into the
work Of directing and instructing, whilo
| yet we can, the tremendous popular
forces which soon will be beyond con.
troll Let us while we may prepare chan.
nels for the flood, so that when it comes
it may not prove deluge."
| There are so called heathen nations
that can put to shame our boasted civil
ization in the relations between rich and
poor. 1t is said that in Japan, for in.
stance, the rich do not seek to outsh!re
the poor in fine carriages and palaces
and ieweiry. Wealth Is not thus alb
sorbed, but is put toremunerative uses
The rich and poor are alike courteous.
It is not possible to distinguish employer
from laborer by their behavior. All are
clean. All are easy and restrained.
We are told that the governor lets hia
child go to the common school and sit
next to the child of the casual laborerr
certain that his child will pick up no bGa
manners and get no contamination J.
thought or in person. This equality en-
ables rich and poor to meet as friends,
and gifts can pass without degradation
The rich mobiles in the country, just s.,
the university men with whom we met
in Toxic, are thus able to give to those
whom they know to be in need, and
friendship becomes the channel of char
ity.
We may be able to teach Japan much
in the mysteries of mechanical progress.
but from her treasures of the past she
can surely teach us here one Of the di.
vine lessons we have yet to learn. If the
rich desire the highest and noblest serv-
ice, it can only be obtained by winning
first the love Of the worker.
This is the secret of the great generals
achievements. No great general ever
lived who failed to inspire the devotion
of his men.
It is thisdevotion that gave them serv.
, ice which made them great.
J One of the secrets of the success O..
General Lee was the passionate devotion
, he inspired in his men.
LEE AND HIS OLD COMRADES.
1t is recorded that not long after the
surrender, when rumors were abroad
that Lee was likely to be executed fo.
treason, the general was living at his
! home in Richmond. One day Confe,
crate soldier in the ragged remnants ci
butternut uniform came up to Gener
al Lee as he sat on the veranda of hiE
house and saluted very respectfully
The general saluted III return and asked
I the man what he wanted.
: "General," said he, there's 90 more O
us fellows round the corner"
"Irdccd! Why don't thoy come up I,
the house!"
"Too ragged, general. They're rag
', geder'n me. Now I'll tell you what we'r
2 after, general. We hear that you're t.
= be tried for treason. Now we've got
y mountain hollow way up there, wher
= nobody can't get. There's right smar
= Of good land in it, and if you'll com
= along, We'll work the land for you ant
x take good care of you, and you sham
. never suffer wantp
- Lee was much affected. He called tn
= rest of the ragged veterans into th
- house, and while he told them that
- would not be proper for him to hide i
:, the mountains or TO seek to escape in an
= way from whatever might befall him
IL was very grateful to them for their Offer
- They went sadly back to their noun
50 tain hollow, but soon afterward under
!, stood that they were free to take up tn
p ordinary employments Of life anon
their fellows and that none were to di
70 or lose theirrliberty for their part in tn
,o war.
as This was why it was so hard to en-
n the war. Let those clothed with til
" power of leadership in the possession {
capital learn here lesson. If you al
general in the industrial world, yo
:, cannot hope for much success from ha
:. rebellious, suspicious men. It's not I'll
70 poverty and rags that Cut so much {
= the sense of injustice and the feelin
no that there is no sympathy and love IN
tween the commander and his men. II
men were ragged and half fed and II,
:, paid at all half the time, but they b.
lieved in their commander. Their nlu
O. kets were ever FURNISHED, and they WEI
" ever ready for the battle.
A0 Cannot our great commanders in IL
: world of industry find here the secret
- reconciliation of their own interests an
" that of their laborers if they will bl
~ enter with love and friendship into the
- lives?
Third-The hour calls for the earne
and sacrificing thought of the working
man. His life hangs upon the movemel
.. of the next decade. He cannot afford
~ blunder. He must think. He must rea,
~ He must organize. He must federate.
" ~ And, above all, he must cleanse h
~ organization of traitors before he ente
~ ~ the great trial of endurance. He mu
~ cast out without ceremony from b
councils the criminal wretches who
ready tongues cry for violence and bloo'
II; shed. Your revolution must be bloo
,st less one to be successful one. Anarcf
" Is an insanity. 1t was born in ii
ha wrongs of our social order, but it ca
a. never cure them.
10 NOT WITH FLAME AND SWORD.
"a It is the delusion of the dethroned re
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