The Penn's Grove record., 1897-09-10

Mark that,
Frederick the Great admired some land
near his palace ut Potsdam, and he resolves
to get II, II was owned by d miller. nc
offered the miller three times the vaineo o.
the property. The miller would not tasen
because 1t was the old homestead, anu he
felt about as Naboth felt about MS VINE
yard when Ahab wanted it, Frederick ths
drent was a rough and terrible man, anu
he ordered the miller into his presence, anu
the king, with d stick in his hand-a stlcA
with which he sometimes struck his olneers
OF state-said to this miller, Now, / nave
offered you three times the value OF tnas
property, and II You won't sell 1t III teSen
anyhow" The miller said, 'Your majesty,
you WON'T eyes" said the king, II VIII
take It," Then" said the miller, I'll your
majesty does take 1t l will sue you IN the
ehancery court" At that threat FREDERICK
tho Great yielded his infamous demand.
And the most imperious outrage against
the working classes will yet cover before
the law. Violence aud contrary TO the law
will nevef accomplish anything, but fignt'
oousness and according to law will accom-
plish 1t.
After awhile crash goes the money mar
ket, and there is no more demand for the
articles manufactured In that iron mill,
and the owner does not hnow what TO DO
He SAYS: "Shall / stop the mill, or shall
run 1t on half time. or shall | cut down the
mems wages2" He walks the floor OF his
counting room all day, hardly knowing
what to- do. Toward evening he calls al
the laborers together. They stand all
around, some with arms akimbo, some with
folded arms, wondering what the boss Is
going to do now. The manufacturer says:
hMen, times are very hard. l don't make
800 where / used to make 300. Somehow,
there Is no demand now for whatw we manu-
f~actere, or but very little demand You
see, I am at vast expense, n have called
you together this afternoon to see what
you would advise. / don't want to shut
up the mill because that would force you
out Of work, and you have always been very
faithful, and I like you, and you seem to
like me, and the BARNS must be looked
after, and your wife will after awhile want
a new dress. l don't know what to To-"
There is q dead halt for a minute or two:
and then one of the workmen steps out
from the ranks of his fellows and says:
Boss, you have been very good to us. and
when you prospered we p~rospered, and now
you are In atight place and l am sorry, n
We have got to sympathize with you. l
don't know how the others feel, but l pro-
pose that we take of twenty per cent. from
our wages INT that when the timos get
good you will remember Us and raise them
again. The workman looks around to his
comrades and says: Boys. what do you
say to this2 All In favor OF my proposition
will say aye"
aye. aye, ayel'' shout 200 voices.
But the mill owner, getting In some new
machinery, exposes himself very much and
takes cold, and 1t settles into pneumonia
and he dies. In the procession to the tomb
are all the workmen, tears rolling down
their cheeks and on upon the ground, but
an hour before the procession gets to the
no-aANnwrAh H. --.,,na u-1 Al,a a1,tI1ran afthnoo
workmen are at the grave, waiting for the
arrival Of the funeral pageant. The minis
ter OF religion may have delivered an elo-
quent eulogium before they started from
the house, but the most impressive things
are said that day by the working classes
standing around the tomb.
That night In all the cabins of the work.
ing people where they have. family prayers
the widowhood and the ofphanage In the
mansion are remembered. No glaring pop
I~lations look over the iron fence Of the
cemetery, but, lowering over the scene, the
benediction Of God and man is soming for
.he fulallment OF the Christlike injunction,
Whatsoever ye would that men should do
to you, do you even so to them"
"0h," says some man here, "that Is all
Utopian, that Is %apocryphal, that is impos-
sible." No. l cut out OF a paper this: Zone
OF the ~pleasantest incidents recorded In q
AobA NthA0 10 " OAib no
land. The wages Of the men In the iron
works at Sheffield are regulated by a board
of arbitration, by whose decision both mas
tiers and men are bound. For some time
past the iron and steel trade has been ex-
tremely Improbable, and the employers
cannot, without much loss, pay the wages
fixed by tho board, which neither employ
ers noremployed hayetho power to change.
To avoid this difficulty the workmen In one
Of the largest steel works In Sheffield hit
upon a device as rare as 1t was generous.
They offered to work for their employers
n week without any pay whatever"
The great want Of the world to-day is the
fulfillment Of this ChrIstlike ~in1ifNction,
that which he promulgated in His sermon
Olivetic. All the pollticaI economisJsdn
der the archivault of the heavens In cons
vention for 1000 years cannot settle this
controversy between monopoly and hard
work, between capital and labor. During
the Revolutionary War there was u heavy
piece Of timber to be lifted, perhaps for
some fortress, and the corporal was over
seeing the work, and he was giving COM
mauds to some soldiers as they lifted:
'Heave away, there! 70 heayel' Well, the
timber was too heavy; they could not get
1t up. There was a gentleman riding by
on a horse, and he stopped n said TO
this corporal: "Why don't you help them
lift2 That timber Is too heavy for them to
lift" 'No," he said, 81 won't. / am q
corporal" The gentleman got off his
horse and came up to the place. Now"
he said to the soldiers, "ail together-yo
heavep' and the timber went to its place.
"Now," said the gentleman othe corporal,
when you havea piece of timber too
heavy for the men to lift, and you want
help. you send to your commandment
chief" II was Washington. Now. that is
about all the gospel l know-the gospel OF
giving somebody a lift, a lift out Of dark
a lift out OF earth into heaven. That
Is all the gospel l know-the gospel OF
helping somebody else to lift.
"Oh," says some w~iseaere, "talk as you
will, the law Of demand and supply will
regulate these things until the end OF
time No, they will not, unless God dies
and the batteries OF the judgment day are
and Pluto and Proserplne, king
and queen of the Internal regions, take full
possession OF this world. Do you know who
supply and demand are? They have gone
into partnership, and they propose to
swindle this earth and are swindling it.
You are drowning. supply and demand
on the shore, one ON one side. the
other on the other side of the nfeboat. n
they cry out to you, snow, you pay us
what we ask you for getting you to shore
or go to the bottoml" II you can borrow
$4,000 you can keep from failing in busl-
ness. Supply and demand say, 'Now, you
pay us exorbitaut usury or you go into
This robber firm of supply
and demand say to you: "The crops are
short. We bought up all tho wheat and 1t
is in our bin. Now, you pay our price or
starve." That Is your magnificent law OF
supply and demand.
The great patriot OF France, Victor Hugo,
died. The $40, 900 in his will given to the
poor of the city was only a hint Of the work
he did for oil Nations aud for all times. /
wonder not that they allowed eleven days
to pass between his death and his burial,
his body meantime kept under trIumphal
arch, for tho world could hardly afford to
let go this man who for more than eight
decades had by his unparalleled genius
blessed It. His nam shall be q terror to all
despots and an encouragement to the strug-
CLING. He made the worlds burden lighter
and Its darkness less dense and Its chain
less CALLING and its thorns of iniquity less
secure.
But Victor Hugo was not tho overtower-
ing friend of mankind. The greatest
friend OF capitalist and toiler and the one
who will yet bring them together in COM
plete accord was born one Christmas night
while the curtains of heaven swung, stirred
by the wings angelic. Owner Of all things
all the continents, all the worlds and all