Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-07-28
levied the taxes! He puts up the reu..,

Then a great trial comes TO clerks i'm
the fact that they see the parsim onious
side of human nature. You talk about
/ lies behind the counter-there are inst
as many lies before the counter Au-
/ gustine speaks of man who add
vertised that he would on a
certain occasion, tell the people what
was IN their hearts A crowd
assembled, and he stepped to the
front and said: ~ will tell YOU what
is IN your hearts: To buy cheap and
sell dearI On, lay not aside your ur-
oanity when you go into a store.
Treat the clerks like gentlemen and
ladies' proving yourself to be a gen
| tleman or LADY. Remem Der, that il
The prices are high and your purse 5
lean, that II is no fault of the clerks.
And If you have "A son or daughter
| amid those perpleNities OF commercial
life, and such one comes home all
| worn out, be leuient, and know that
the martyr at the stake no more cec-
talnty needs the grace of God than our
young people amid the seven-times
heated corporations of a clerks life.
Ihen there are all the trials which
come TO clerks from the treatment Of
inconsideratc employers. There are
proiesscd Christian men who have no
more regard for their clerks than thoy
have for the scales on which the supats
are weighed. y clerk is no more than
50 much store furniture. No consider
alton for their rights or il.
terests Not one word of encou,.
agemcnt from sunrise to sunset
nor from January to December.
But when anything goes wrong
a streak of dust on the counter. or
box with the cover T-thundcrsho,v-
ers OF scoldinS. Men imperious. Capri.
cious, cranky toward their CLERKS
their whole manner as much 4, to say,
"AD the interest have in YOU is to sea
what can get ont of YOU Then
there are all the trials of incompetent
wages, not in such times as these
when If man gets half n salary for
ms services ne ought to be than lsful.
out mean IN prosperous times
Some of you remember wher the
war broke out and all merchandise
went mp, and merchants were mad,
m'I'"naIres in six months by the sim
pie rise IN the value of goods. Did the
cIeaNS get advantage of that rise?
Sometimes, not always | saw states
- AZ NHoat times over winch
1 nc '"'Sc Oh "oa mas hung ever since.
- nc cry oi unpaid men and women in
- ''o'cS reached the Lord of Sa'
anu the Indignation IF
- mas "een around those establish.
ever since nashing IN the chan
glowing from the crimson up
.io'S 'eIS, rum oI'hg IN the long roll of
.il' teI pm "I'ey' SUCH men may build
wnaal
~ Paiaccs OF merchandise Heaven
- U"' utter aWalIe disaster VIII |
I'm. ~. aIo"E' ana VIII put one hand on /
'n'S P'''a'' ana another hand Oh that /
par anu throw itself forward until /
w" II WA. come the whole structure, /
~ uS.'''E 'Ht W"rNhlpetS as grapes arc |
'ii, ISL nc ~ 'he W'ne-Pres'.
Iheh' there are boys ruined by tho .
~'''' ei'SH'loh, IN now many /.
p ~ GUS stores IL has been for tho I
'.9' ~ ears 'hat boys were given just .
s,,,i5 ''.o'ey 10 'ehch them how TO .
- nm were 5e!|eu upon by the .
NJ '"s' majority of instances .
..-I-l,- - ~. ne head OF the hrm
""''c Is george now ION, [
any NOR lad might .
80. 10 "ea'h on blasted
80, NAN axe one farthlng from his
80 'ot DC |" that employer
-, 80. -, ''y puts temptation Iu
T.; mere nave oeen great estab-
''' '.S' ''''cS' Ouliulng mar
~. ""c'S dying worth
- az 'i''''i"hS' and mhHons,
an" uhI OF their cs-
-. - ''e o'oou- ana muscle, and
III, P''I clcr"S' SUCH men
viii not mention any