The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-11-16
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The whole truth Is. the course OF IN
management IN this tiasco and the beai
ing of our people toward II at ever
) stage Of develOi Inent has made clea
one thing-;he nation has rendered
verdict upon the sabbath question tina
must tell in shaping our future.
ONE DAYS REST IN SEVEN
In this conflict the people have re
emphasized the truth of the Christial
Sabbath namely. that one day $ rest II
seven Is moi the invention Of priestcraft
but is the primal ordinance Of human
ity. To whose sanctity eCclesiasticisil
can add nothing. from whose glory In
fidelity can subtract nothing.
First. we say they have reaffir med tn,
true basis of the Sabbath All urdinanc,
primal Of the human race. The peopl,
have said. Moses or no Moses. command
ment or no commandment, Bible or nj
Bible, right or wrong. orthodox or heter,
odox, whatever dogs and eats may b,
able to do, as for man, the Sabbath
| with its rest Is To him an absolute ne
cessity of nature! Such necessity in.
deed that, if God did not establish q
of creating a being who can not live
without one. And this is but "A re
affirmation of the unvarying record of
history. France went mad with rage
once against ecclesiasticism. They
mistoOk the Sabbath for an invention
OF prlestcraft 10 cheat them out of a
day. They abolished it by law, only
to wake iii a short time from their de-
fusion to find that God had founded the
Sabbath in love for man and had writ
ten it i'll the red blood or natures eter-
nal decree. They found the Jaw of the
Sabbath written on their tired hands
and feet, in quivering muscle and throb-
bling nerves.
What any nation of the old world has
found necessity for rest to the hu-
man body is IA double necessity to the
people of America. While the old
world travels one mile we rush over
two. We are nation of maniacs in
rush and drive. The pressure of life
with us is becoming more and more an
insanity. OF all the people God has
created we should cherish the Sabbath.
1t Is the one oasis i'll the desert of our few
erlsh host. 1t is our one remaining bull
wark against the greed of the century.
Our lust for gold is taking the heart
out OF the nation. The Sabbath is the
one pause in the mad rush 1t is the
one hour left when we may return to
reason for the moment-gain the con-
seriousness of our humanity. Every
effort we have made in our national life
to drive through this day with the
rush and roar of the week has proved
or is proving a failure. Men who are
forced to work on Sundays never give
the best service. They break down
early. Their overwrought nerves and
muscles are the cause Of many fatal &C
cldents in which the nation pays life
for taking life.
NOT THE WORKINGMAN'S WISH.
Every attempt to break down the
rest of the Sabbath in the name of the
American workingman is subterfuge
and a lie. The workingman does not
desire to work seven days in the week.
The hue and cry set up in his name is
the thinly guised hypocrisy of greed
crying for the last possible tribute of
bis muscle and his hearts blood. The
men who seek to break down the Sab
bath as day of complete rest are the
enemies of labor: their twaddle on the
subject is but the echo Of some capital |
Istlc glutton behind the scene who |
wishes to work them to the last drop of |
blood in their veins. No class of work
ngmen desire to work on Sunday. A |
tool editor of a weekly sheet in New
ork tried to get up sensation to sell |
lis paper some time ago by advocating |
he opening of the theaters on Sunday. |
he wrote to all the managers of the /
heaters and the leading actors and |
asked their views. And he got them.
3ut they were not what he had ex-
'ected. To man manager and actor
denounced the movement And one of
he reasons brought forward against
was the fact that Sunday opening in
he west had proved itself a curse.
they declared that 1t made the life of
ne actor well nigh impossible and did
lot increase the revenue Of the theater,
what they gained on Sunday being in
arlably lost on the first DAYS of the
week, and the extra labor was so much
cad loss in the long run.
What we need to do for the working
nan Is more and more to shorten his
ours of labor. The world is the gamer
y 1t, directly and indirectly. Thou
ands OF street car men are now forced
work from 70 70 Is hours day, and
ome OF them do not get a Sunday off
4 year. Such system is the Guin-
essence of brutality.
The workingman is overworked now.
WHAT he needs, what he demands and
nat ne will have is fewer hours Of {
ork and more days of rest. Every 6
tempt 70 rob him Of the perfect rest OF I
10 oaDpath is a CRIME against human
J. why the great mass of WORKING
en- nave not spoken with louder en- /
lasls upon this question Is explained I
part by that awful silence which /
g heartless grind of toll so often i
ings.
BRUTEs BETTER TREATED THAN MEN. i
we are kinder 70 dogs and horses r
an we are 70 one another. We give | v
9 morse the rest needed to prolong his
g and give us tho best possible serv. Il
3. We pile work on men ~ntiI there =
no heart power left to d.: the tired O
osce. The world is nun ~ heart b
wer, not horsepower, whether in man T
peast: We forget this n
mr.. Montague Williams has given MS b.
description lately of that pathetic 81
Ice that hangs over this overwroupht
'rld of muscle. He describes a cheer O,
. fo9tn in London where a man and 81
wife were working mfpr dear life" T
thelr respective occupations, while W
youngest Of the six children dozed | Ii
'ay the minutes in "a corner and the n,
Ter ones were silently helping IA
=" Ihe woman was making button a,
les in heap Of ~aistcoats, and the W
sband bent over BENCH, stitching tt
pers to boots. - IN
NO one spoke, no one looked up even Be
2 glance from the window. and aft a.