Owingsville outlook., 1897-09-09

the wages fixed by the board, which
neither employers nor employed have
the power tn change. To avoid this
difficulty the workmen in one of the
largest steel works in Sheffield hit mp
on u device as rare as il was generous.
They offered to- work for their employ
ers one week without any pay what
ever"
But you 20 with me and I will show
you-nOt So far off Sheffield, Eng
land-factOries, banking houses. StOrs:
houses and costly enterprises where
this Christ-like injunction of my text
is fully kept. and you could no more
get the employer to practice an injus-
tice upon his men. or the meh to con-
spire against the employer, han you
could get your right hand and yu'-r left
hand. your right eye and your left eye,
your right ear and your left ear, into
physiological antagonism- Now. where
is this to begin? In our homes, in our
stores, on our farIns-not waiting for
other people To do their duty. Is there
a divergence now between the parlor
and the kitchen? Then there is some
thing wrong, either in the parlor or i'm
the kitchen. perhaps in both. Are the
clerks is your store irate against the
firm? Then there is something wrong,
either behind the counter, or in the
private office. or perhaps in both.
The great want of the world to-day
is the fulfillment of this Christ-like in
junction. that which lie promulgated
in His sermon Olivetic. All the polit-
ical economists under the archivault of
the heavens in convention for l,00)
years can not settle this controversy
between monopolists and hard work,
between capital and labor. During the
revolutionary war there was a heavy
piece of timber to he lifted, perhaps for
a fortress. and a corporal was oversee
ing the work. and he was giving com
mands To some soldiers as they lifted:
''IIeave away there. yo heave.- Well,
| the timber was too heavy; they could
not get it up. There was gentle
man riding by on a horse. and he
stopped and said to this corporal:
why don't You help them lift?
/ That timber is too heavy for them to
/ lift No" he said. Il won't: L
am a corporal The gentleman got
off his horse and came up to the place.
Now" he said to the soldiers, ''all
together-yo heaver~ and the timber
went tn its place. Now said the
gentleman to the corporal, when you
have piece of timber too heavy for
the men to lift. and you want help, you
send to your cOmmander-in-chief." It
was Washington. Now. that is about
all the Gospel | know-the Gospel of
giving somebody a lift, lift out Of
darkness. a lift out of earth into
Heaven. That is all the Gospel know
the Gospel of helping somebody else
| to lift
oh says some wiseaere. talk as
YOU will the law of demand and sup
ply will regulate these things until the
end of time No, they will not. un-
less tod dies that the batteries of the
Judgment day are spiked, and Pluto
and Proserpine, king and queen of the
Internal regions, take full possession
of this world. Do you know who sup
ply and demand are? They have gone
into partnership. and they propose to
swindle the earth. and are swindling
it. You are drowning. Supply and
demand stand ON the shore. one on
one side. the other on the
other side of the lifeboat. and they cry
out to you, now you pay us what we
ask you for getting you To shore, or go
to the bottom" IL you can borrow
5000 you can keep from failing in
business supply and demand say,
Now, YOU pay us exorbitant usury. or
you go into bankruptcy This robber
firm of supply and demand say to you:
THE crops are short. We bought up
all the wheat, and 1t is in our bin. Now,
you pay our price or starve." That is
your magnificent law of supply and
deTand