The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-10

most impressive things are said that
day by the working classes standing
around the tomb.
That night all the cabins of the
working people where they have family
prayers the widowhood and the orphan
g in the mansion are remembered.
No glazing populations look over the
iron fence of the cenetry, out. hover
ing over the scene, the benediction of
God and man Is coming for the fulfill
ment of the Christlike injunction.
Whatsoever we would that men should
do to you. 10 you even SO to them"
FRIENDLY FEELINGS.
oh" a some man here. that is
all Utopian. that is apocryphal, that is
impossible" No. / cut out of a paper
this: One of the pleasantest incidents
recorded in a long time is reported
from Sheffield. England. Tn wages of
the men in the iron works # Sheffield
are regulated by a board "a arbitration,
by whose decision both masters and
men are bound. For some time past
the iron and steel trade ha been ex-
tremely Improbable, and the employ
ers cannOt, without much loss, pay the
wages fixed by the board, which neither
employers nor employed have the pow
er to change. To avOid this difficulty
the workmen in one Of the largest steel
works in Sheffield hit upon a device as
rare as it was generous. They offered
to work for their employers one week
without any pay whatever"
But you go with me, and l will show
you-not so far off as Sheffield, Eng
land-factOries, banking houses, store
houses and costly enterprises where
this Christlike injunction Of my text is
fully kept, and you could no more get
the employer to practice an injustice.
upon his men, or the men to cOnSplre
against the employer, than you could
get your right hand and your left hand,
your right eye and your left eye, your
right ear and your left ear, into physi-
illogical antagonism. Now, where is
this to begin? In our homes, in u
stores, on our farms-nOt waiting for
other people 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
the kitchen, perhaps in both. Are the
clerks in your store irate against the
firm? Then there is something wrong
either behind the counter or in the pri-
vate office, or perhaps in both.
The great want Of the world today is
the fullfillment of this Christlike in
junction, that which he promulgated
in his sermon Olivetic. All the pOliti-
cal economists d the archivault of
the heavens in convention for LOCO
years cannot settle this controversy be-
tween monopoly and hard work, be-
tween capital n labor. During the
revolutionary war there was a heavy
piece Of timber to be lifted, perhaps for
some fortress, and a corporal was over
seeing the work, and he was giving
commands to some soldiers as they
lifted: "Heave away, there! 70
heave!" Well, the timber was too
heavy; they could not get it up.
There was a gentleman 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" mo-" he said, Il won't. 1 am
a corporal The gentleman got off his
horse n came up to the place.
"Now," he said to the soldiers. "all to-
gether-yo heave!" and the timber went
to it's place. "NOw," said the gentle
man to the corporal, when you have
a piece of timber too heavy for the men
to lift, n 0 want help, you send to
your cOmmander-in-chief." 1t was
Washington. Now, that is about all
the gospel I know-theg gospel of giving
somebody a lift, a lift out of darkness,
a lift out Of earth into heaven. That is
all the gospel I know-the gospel Of
lSip1IS ioS ~ IL
SUPPLY AND DEMAND
oh" says some wiseacre, talk as
| you will, the law Of demand and sup
ply will regulate these things until the
end of time" No, they will not, unless
God dies and the batteries of the judg-
! ment day are spiked, and Pluto and
Proserpine, king and queen of the in
fernal regions, take full possession of
ILL., x~-1I n %, 1~or- " ~nrN~lry
/, and demand are? They have gone into
die this earth and are ~swindling it.
You are drowning. Supply and de-
mand stand on the shore, one on one
side, the others on the other side of the
lifeboat, and they cry gu to you, NOV.
you pay us what we ask o for get
ting you to shore or go to the bOttOm!"
| If you can borrow SIS, OOO, you can keep
| from failing in business. Supply n
demand say, Now, you pay us exorbi-
ant usury or you go into bankruptcy
This robbie firm of supply and demand
| say to you: THE crops are short. We
bought up all the wheat and it is in
our bin. Now, you pay our price or
s%tarve." That is your magnificent law
of supply and demand.
Supply and demand own the largest
mill on earth, and all the rivers roll
over their wheel, and into their hopper
/! they put all the e women and chill
| dren they can shovel out of the centu-
| ries, and the blood and the bones red
den the valley while the mill grinds.
That diabolic law of supply and de-
mand will yet have to stand aside, and
| instead thereof will come the law Of
love, the law of cooperation, the law Of
kindness, the law Of sympathy, the law
of Christ. Have you no idea of the
| coming Of such a time? Then you do
not believe the Bible. All the Bible is
full of promises on this subject, and as
the ages roll on the time will come
when men of fortune will be giving
larger sums to humanitarian and
| gelistic purposes, and there will be
more James Lenoxes and Peter Coop
ers and William E. Dodges and George
Peabcdys. AS that time comes there
will be more parks, more picture gall