The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-09-15

ii T0it = on tStit u, | = ti"> II a--1 Hu". iac
yI;s,cr sai3 Your majesty. you Won :"
..l-c~," sal the king, Il will take it.
Then. sd lac miller, III your majesty
does take i. Will sue yoU il the caancery
court." it tAat th-ea; Frederick the Great
Welded MS infamous denaud. And the
most iupcriouS outrage against the working
classes viii yet cover before the law. Eiol-
ence and contrary to the law will never &C.
complish anything. bat righteousness and
according 10 the law will accomplish 1t
Vel, II this controversy between capital
ana labor csLu0t be settled by human Wis
dom, il today capital an Il labor stand with
their thumbs on each other ; throat-as they
dot is ;!G!c tec Us TO look somewhere else
for relief, auG Il poiu,S from my text, roSea'e
and iub%ant, and puts one hand on the
broaicloth shoulder OF capital and puts the
other or the homespun covered shoulder OF
toll and says. with voice that VII. sran3ly
aud c!o-iously ses,,e this and settle every
thing Whatsoever ye would tAas men
should 60 10 you, 30 you even - 10 them.
That IS, The lady OF the household VIII say:
Il must treat the maid in the kitchen aSt as
! would like to be treated i! were down
stairs and it were nv work 10 wash and coos
and sweep. AID 1t were the doty OF the nlalo
IN the ki;ckhen 10 pres de IL ihlS PaI!or
The maid iathe kitchen must say. II my
enpIgver seems to. be more prosperous than |
that is no fault Of hers shall not treat her
as an enemy. viii have the same industry
aud flel:ty down stairs as would expect
fro.o mySu5ordiaa;es ii happened to be the
vite Of 2 silk importer.
The owner Of an iron mill, having taken
. dose of nly text before leaving home IN
tho morning. will 90 into his foundry, ard
,,qss;or into what is called the pudding room
he viii see man there stripped to the waist
and beswea;ed and exhausted with the labor
and the 10 I: and he will say to him: ''N ny,
il seeE,s to be very hot IN here. You LOOK
very much exhausted. hear your child IS
SIC; with scarlet fever. II you want your
WAGES a little earlier this week, so rs to pay
the nurse and get the medicines. just come
into my cflice any time.
After awhile crash goes the money mar
ket. and there is no more demand Tor the
articles manufactured in that iron mill, and
the owner does not know what to do. lie
SAYS. Shall stop TIE mill or shall run 1t
on haIf time. or shall cut down the men
wages. lie walks the tioor o; his counting
room al! day, hardly knowing what 10 do'
Toward evening he calls all the laboce"5 TO-
cetaer. They stand al! around, some with
arms akimbo, some with folded arms, won
dar;n- wba, the boss IS going TO do now.
The marnfacturer says: Men the times are
very hard don't make $50 where l used
>. - 500 Somehow there IS no demand
NOW for wba, we manufacture. or but very
little demand. You see an az vast expense,
and have called you together this after
noon 10 see what you would advise. don ,
want 10 shut up the mill, because that would
force vou out Of work, and you have always
been very faithful. and like you, and You
saec, 10 like me. and the BARNS must be
locked after. and your vile will after a"hiIe
want = new dress. l don't know what to
dc"
There is deai halt for minute or two
and then one of the workmen steps out roai
the ranks Of his fellows and says: t1ss.
YOU have been very good to US, and when
YOU prospered we prospered, and new you
are in t;ch; place and am sorry, and We
have cot 10 sympathize with you. don
know how the others feel, but propose that
we take of 20 per cent. from our wages, anu
that when the times get good you will re
member US and raise them again The
workman looks around to his comrades aud
sass: 'Boys, what do you say to this? All
in favor Of my proposition will say aye.
cave, ave, are shout 200 voices.
But the mill owner, getting in some new
machinery, exposes himself very nuch, aao
takes cola. and il settles into pneumonia,
and Re dies. In the procession TO the tomb
are all the workmer, tears rolling down
their cheeks and off on the ground, bat an
hoar before the procession gets to the Gene
terry the wires and the children OF those
workmen are at the grave waiting Tor the
arrival OF the funeral pageant. The Nuns
ter Of religion may have delivered an e!o-
oucnt eu?ogium before they started from the
house, bus the most impressive things are
said that day By the working classes sand
ing around the tomb.
That night in all the cabins Of the work
ing people where they have family prayers
the widoRhocd and the orphanage IN ths
mansion are remembered. No glaring pop
ulations look over the iron fence Of the cem'
etery, but, lowering over the scene, the
benediction Of God and man is coming toI
the fulf!lment ofthe Christlike injunction
s.Whatsoever ye would that men should DC
to you, DO ye even SO TO them.
ooh" saws some man here, "that IS a.!
Utopian, that is apochryphal, that is impos'
s;ble' No. I cut out Of paper TINS;
lone Of the pleasantest incidents recorded
IN a long time IS reported from Sheffield,
England. The wages Of the men IN the iron
works at Sheffield are regulated by a board
of arbitration, by whose decision both mas
ters ard ren are bound. For some time
past the iron aud steel trade has been
extremely improbable, and the employer:
cannot. without much loss, pay the wages
fixed by the board, which neither employers
nor employed have the power to change K
avoid this difficulty, the workmen IN one o.
the largest steel works in Sheffield hit upon
device as rare as it was generous. They
offered 10 work for their employers one
week without any pay whatever.
But you 50 with ne and | will show you
not so far off as Sheffield, Eaglaud-facfo
r;es, banking houses, storehouses and costly
enterprises where this ChriStlike injunction
of my tex; IS fully kept, and you could nt
more get the employer to practice an injus
tice upon his men, or the men TO coasp'rt
against the employer, than you could ge
your right hand and your left hand, you'
right eye and Jour left eye, your right ea'
and yoar left ear IN physiological antagon
ism. Now, where is this to begin? In ou'
homes, in our stores, on our farms-no
waiting sor other people to do their duty
Is there divergence now between the par
lor aud the kitchen? Then there is some
thing wrong, either IN the rarlor or th'
kitchen, perhaps in both. Are the clerks il
your store igate against the firm: Ihe'
there is something wrong, either behind the
counter. oriu the private Office, or perhap
! N both.
The great want Of the world today is tn
tu,Gl1men; Of this Christiike Injunction, tAa
which he promulgated in his sermon Oh
ye;ic. Al the political economists under tn
archivault Q: the heavens il convention TO
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