The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-09-17

ever We would that men should do to
Won. do We even so them" That |
is, the lady of the household |
will say: Il must treat the maid in !
the kitchen just as l would like to be
treated if l were downstairs, and it !
were my work to wash, and cook, and |
sweep, and it were the duty of the
maid in the kitchen to preside in this
parlor." The maid in the kitchen must
say: IF my employer seems to be more
prosperous than l, that is no fault OF
hers; shall not treat her as an enemy.
1 will have the same industry and
fidelity downstairs as 1 would expect
from my subordinates, if happened
to be the wife of silk importer"
The owner of an iron, mill having
taken dose of my text before leaving
home in the morning, will go into his
foundry, and, passing into what is
called the pudding room, he will see
man there stripped to the waist, and
besweated and exhausted with the
labor and the toll, and he will say to
him: "Why, it seems to be very hot In
here. You look very much exhausted.
L hear your child Is sick with scarlet
fever. If you want your wages a little
earlier this week, so as to pay the nurse
! and get the medicines, just come into
my office any time"
After awhile, crash goes the money
market, and there is no more demand
| for the articles manufactured in that
mill, and the owner does not know
what to do. He says: shall stop
| the mill, or shall l run it on half time,
! or shall l cut down the mems wages?"
! He walks the floor of his coun ting
room all day, hardly knowing what to
! do Toward evening he calls all the
| laborers together. They stand all
around, some with arms akimko, some
with folded arms, wondering what the
boss is going to do now. The manu-
facturer SAYS: men, times are very
hard; l don't make $40 where L used
| to make S1OO. Somehow, there is no
demand now for what we manufacture,
or but very little demand. You see
am at vast expense and have called
YOU together this afternoon to see
what you would advise. 1 don't want
to shut down the mill, because that
would force you out of work, and you
have always been very faithful, and l
like you, and you seem to like me, and
the BARNS must be looked after, and
YOUR wife will after awhile want new
dress. l don't know what to do"
There is a dead halt for a minute or
two. and then one of the wOrkmen
steps out from the ranks of the fell
lows, and says: BOSS, you have been
very good to us, and when you pros
pered we prospered, and now you are
in tight place and L am sorry, and we
have got to sympathize with you.
don't know how the others feel, but
propose that we take off 20 per cent.
!, from our wages, and that when the
times get good you will remember US
and raise them again" The workman
looks around to his cOmra des, and says;
''Boys, what do you say to this? All
in favor of my proposition Will say
ave" Ave! aye! ayeV' shout 200 voices
Z But the mill owner, getting in some
new machinery, exposes himself very
much, and takes cold, and it settles into
. pneumonia, and he dies. In the process
> sion to the tomb are all the workmen
t tears rolling down their cheeks, and on
! upon the ground; but an hour before
: the procession gets to the cemetery th'
! wives and the children of those work
men are at the grave waiting for the
. arrival of the funeral pageant. The
minister of religion may have delivere'
= an eloquent eulogium before the.
o started from the house, but the mos
= impressive things are said that day b.
+ the working classes standing aroun'
= the tomb.
That night in all the cabins of tn
9 working people where they have fam
: ilv PRAYERS the widowhood and the or
phana ge in the mansion are remem
bered. No glaring populations loo
( over the iron fence of the cemetery
. but, lowering over the scene, the be1
:, ediction of God and man is coming 10
- the fulfllment of the Christlike IN
y junction: Whatsoever we would tina
;, men should do to you, do you even S
: to tn en-"
+ 'Oh," says some man, "that is a
% Utopian, that is apocryphal, that is IN
Is possible" No. l cut out of pape
l. this: lone of the pleasantest incident
p recorded in a long time is reporte
q from Sheffield, England. The wage
a of the men in the iron works at Shethel
Is are regulated by a board of arbitr;
os ton. bv whose decision both master
ID and men are bound. For some tin
OF mast the iron and steel trade has bee
lg extremely Improbable, and the e.
+ pIovers can not, without much los
Oh nav the wages fixed by the boar
which neither employers nor employt
ne have the power to change To avo
Id this difficulty, the worl1men in one
Dy the largest steel works in Sheffield
ee upon the device as rare as it was ge
| TO
as employers one week without any p'
as whatever"
en- But YOU 90 with me and will sho
at vou-not SO far off as Sheffield, 4
he gland-factories, banking houses sto
e; houses and costly enterprises vine
nd this Christ-like injunction of my te
es is fully kept, aud you could no mo
lis get the employer to practice an
zee Justice upon his men. or the men
nd conspire against the employer, tn
" YOU could get your right hand a.
es- your left hand, your right eye a
~, your left ear into physiological antf
i'll ouism. Now, where is this to oegl
1 In our homes, in our stores, on @
II farms-not waiting for other peoE
lat to do their duty. Is there div
he pence now between the parlor and
he kitchen? Then there is somethi
ore wrong, either in the parlor or
he kitchen, perhaps in both. Are
no. clerks in your store irate against
aw firm? Then there is something wrol
either behind the counter, or In
-en private Office, or perhaps in both.
by ''Oh," says some Wlseacre' 'alA
nd YOU will, the law of demand and o
lch ply viii regulate these things un
me the end of time. NO, they WI.