San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-23

| put yourself In the place OF announcer,
is confession Of judgment
against yourself. What right
have you to judge another at all,
unless you are competent to do so.
Who authorized you to make mer-
chsndise Of his integrity or his
capacities or his standing or his
solvency? II you undertake to do
this, is it not the very least that
you can do to qualify yourself for
this high Office of judgment? II
you say, that il this care were
taken there would be no judg-
ments rendered, that cuts no ice.
1t is not necessary that you render
a judgment, but it is necessary
that il you undertake to do so,
that you do it right, do it righ-
teously. In fact, il the difficulties
Of the case should deter you from
judging at all, who would be the
loser? The LIGHT preacher is Of
the opinion that if judgment of
our fellows were a lost art the
world would be all the better for
the loss.
When the successful merchant
learns to trade places with the
struggling young beginner, IN his
mind only, and to consider all his
surroundings and discouragements,
and in effect to put himself in his
place before passing judgment
upon him, there will be fewer
young business men 60 to the
wall. When experience is more
ready to put itself in the place OF
inexperience, for the purpose OF
judgment, then inexperience will
be more ready to ask Of experience
the way of successful business
methods and to profit by them.
But so long as the supreme effort
OF both is to put the other fellow
In hole instead of putting your
self in his place for the purpose Of
helping him out of a hole, SO long
will the continued preying Of one
upon another be continued and the
business salvation of men be re-
tarded.
Put yourself in his place; is an
admonition that comes with
peculiar force and application to
all who in any way employ the
labor Of others. 1t comes to the
great manufacturer or operator,
with his thousands and tens of
thousands of employees under his
thumb. 1t directs him to put
himself in the place Of those over
whom he rules as an unquestioned
autocrat, and counsels him to
consider them in all things in
which he directs their labors. Let
this be done and it will revolution
ize labor. Strikes will come to a
perpetual end. Such men as Debs
will be without job. The agita-
tors who live upon the disagree.
ments OF labor and the employers
Of labor, will be starved into the
necessity Of doing an honest days
labor for bread. Those who en-
ploy labor will not lose a dollar
that they are justly entitled to in
the operation.
Let those who pay wages to labor
and consider themselves entitled
to all that labor can create outside
Of its barest needs, consider this
truth and profit by it. Let those
who grow fat upon the profits of
labor and roll in wealth and spend
their tens of thousands Of dollars,
or pounds, annually in all manner
Of luxurious living, occasionally
take day of and visit the homes
by whose labor they are thus en-
abled to roll in wealth. 1t will do
them good to trade places with
one of their workmen il only for
day. Put yourself in his place,
then grind out his blood aud bones
and soul II you dare or can. Put
yourself in his place, and then
starve his wife and little children
IL you think there is no hereafter,
no hell in your own heart to be
opened in time with all it's con-
Stunning fires. Put yourself in his
place, and then see his innocent
daughters driven to the street to
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