Evening journal., 1894-07-24


A Few Words ON Hard Times.
We Just now have hard times. II
pains me to see our industries idle aud
hear thousands cry for bread. deplore
the riot and blood, shed In so many
directions. II l could I would start
every mill to morrow and give employ
ment to Ull at fair and femunerative
wages. But i, at the same time. be-
lleve i've are reaping swhat we have
sowed, and that our good as nation
demands that we suffer for while; that
We, so to say. halt In our rush after tue
uurighteous mammon. so that God g az
have an opportunity TO speak to us. and
remind us Of lessons that we are prone
to forget-to ignore az all events
now and then see 1t suggested that
day of fasting and praying be appointed:
that we as a nation in thls way seek
deliverance from our present industrial
distress. While believe that we ought to
fast and pray far more than we do, such
exercises can bring us no permanent
relief unless we associate with them the
determination that we will exchange
low for high ideals, and carry on our
business according to the di
\ vinely ordained laws OF right and
justice. We, in other words. must
repent change our mind, and say that
getting rich. sxoept In a fair and
legitimate way, Is a very foolish and
costly thing We. for instance, must
quit the impossible part Of making
something ont of nothing. We have
done his till we are a spectacle to the
nations We TO day are the 65 600 600
people who bring silver from the mine
stamp 20 cen s worth of Il, and call il a
dollar. Three quarters are not four
quarters. Three horses cannot DO the
work Of four horses The wagon, soousr
or later, stops II that is required
Neither Is the idea that worth can be
stamped into thing confined 70 the
coinage OF silver We, as a people, are
doing the equivalent Of that Ia other
directions. Something for nothing Is
the motto Of thousands We even
speculate in grain that is never sown
nor harvested We manipulate prices,
and create fictitious values On a scale
that is appalling We secure an acre
Of ground, put buildings on It. and call
it a valuable plant We then enter the
market with stock, as It is called sell
IL. and with the proceeds buy more
ground, erect additional buildings. aud
once more offer stock SO we 20 on till
we have title deeds to property that cost
millions; but we sooner or later overdo
1t, and are buried In ruins greater far
than those which tumbled about Samson
when the temple at Gsza fell One Of
our best honored townsmen, a while ago,
saw things like these in city you often
hear about They, in some measure, at
least, occur everywhere.
SO it goes on. 1t is one thing to day
aud another to morrow. An employer
has men In his service. He pays them
wages they do not earn because they
impose on him, slight their work do in
zen hours what they could do in eight
Workmen have told me with their own
mouth that they have taken hire for
twelve hours when they did only an
ordinary days task That ia rank dis
honesty, and results in harm; leads 20
business embarrassment.
Wages That Are an Insult TO Manhood
Or it is the other way. Multitudes
in the great centres at all events, work
hard ana get little or nothing for theil
labor Many Of the wares and garment,
at whose chespness we marvel are mad,
by poor dependents in garrets and
cellars, for wages that are an insult {,
manhood When women by til,
thousand, for instance, Sc for twenty
five cents day, IN manufacturing what
you and perhaps unblushingly wear on
our back. the gods grit their teeth and
say it is injustice that calls for retribu
ton. l. moreover, add that when al
these and other things l might name
are large part of the nations life and
activity, there must and will be socia
and industrial commissions Neither
tariff laws nor free trade ensctments car
prevent them What cam Nothing bul
the practice of the principles which
make people righteous people. Such
nation does not uuduly hesd the out
ward and material H. has neither gold
! nor silver for the god 10 worsbips II
inearnates right IL enthrones Justice: n
, heeds the voice Of divinity, and Wake In
} the path Of the sweet, pure and exalted
virtues 1t allows 10 distinction bal
the distinction which worth creates. Il
{ gives every man, white or black. a fail
! and equal chance 10 builds railroads.
Pounds cities, lerects warehouses, stars
) manufa ctories and develops resources
But it thinks 10 a grander thing {,
develop character; far nobler employ
ment to rear race of pTincsly men anC
q queenly women, than to fill the land
With good crops and ine horses Ii IL
fine, says that all people every where ar,
: a brotherhood, aud that the colder
chord Of love must bind them together
8 the chord which unites them in tn,
r relations that are characterized b,
/ mutual trust and good will
! "a lady once lgrew tired Of the eros
a she carried. IL became so heavy tha'
she thought Of laying it down. In th,
4 following night she had dream, an,
q saw an angel, who conducted her to
beautiful garden in which were man,
< crosses. They were Of all sizes and o