Connecticut western news., 1897-09-09


 are bound. For some time past the iron and steel trade has been extremely un- profitable, and the employers cannot, without much loss, pay the wages fixed by the board, which neither employers nor employed have the power to change To avoid this difficulty the workmen in one of the largest steel works in Sheffield hit upon device as rare as 1t was gen. erous. They offered to work for their employers one week without any pay whatever.
 But you go with me, and I will show you-not so far off as Sheffield, Eng land-faotories, 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 conspire 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 physiological antagonism. Now, where is this to be- gin? In our homes, in our stores, on our farms-not waiting for other people to do their duty. Is there divergence now between the parlor and the kitchen? Then there is something wrong either in the parlor or the kitchen, perhaps in both. Are the clerks in your store irate against the firm? Then there is some thing wrong either behind the counter or in the private office, or perhaps In
 both.
 The great want of the world today is sx. junction, that which he promulgated in his sermon Olivetic All the political economists under the archivault of the heavens in convention for l 1000 years cannot settle this controversy between monopoly and hard work, between capi- tai and labor During the Revolutionary war there was a heavy piece of timber to be lifted, perhaps for some fortress, and corporal was overseeing the work, and he was giving commands to some soldiers as they lifted: "Heave away, therel To heavep' We'll, the timber was too heavy; they could not get it
 up. There was gentleman riding by on horse, and he stopped and said to this corporal: "Why don't you help them liftp That timber is too heavy for them to lift 1" "No," he said, 1T won't I am a corporal" The gentleman got off his horse and came up to the place. Now" he said to the soldiers, "all together-yo heavel" and the timber went to 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 I know-the gospel of l giving somebody lift, lift out of darkness, lift out of earth into heaven. That is all the gospel know-the gos- | pei of helping somebody else to lift. Supply and Demand.
 "Oh," says some wiseacre, "talk as i you will, the law of demand and SUD- 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 l this world. Do you know who supply | and demand are? They have gone into partnership, and they propose to swim de this earth and are swindling 1t. You are drowning. Supply and de-
 mand 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 l getting you to shore or go to the bot toml'' If you can borrow $5, 900, you
 can keep from failing in business. Sup ! ply and demand say, "Now, you pay us exorbitant usury or you go into bank I ruptcy." This robber 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 i price or starve." That is your magnifi- cent law of supply and demand.
 l Supply and demand own the largest mill on earth, and all the rivers roll l over their wheel, and into their hopper
 they put all the men, women and chil- dren they can shovel out of the centu- ] ries, and the blood and the bones redden
 the valley while the mill grinds. That
 diabolic law of supply and demand will yet have to stand aside, and instead thereof will come the law of love, the law of cooperation, the law of kind
 ness, the law of sympathy, the law of
 Christ. Have you no idea of the coming
 of such time? Then you do not believe
 the Bible. All the Bible is full of 1 promises on this subject, and as the ages I roll on the time will come when men
 of fortune will be giving larger sums
 to humanitarian and evangelistio pur- | poses, and there will be more James
 Lenoxes and Peter Coopers and William
 E. Dodges and George Peabodys As
 that time comes there will be more
 parks, more picture galleries, more gar dens thrown opeI for the holiday peo-
 pie and the working classes.
 l was reading in regard to a charge
 that had been made in England against
 Lambeth palace that it was exclusive, and that charge demonstrated the sub lime fact that to the grounds of that | wealthy estate 800 poor families have
 free passes and 40 croquet companies, and on the half holidays 4,000 poor people
 recline on the grass, walk through the | paths and sit under the trees. That Is
 gospel-gospel on the wing, gospel out
 of doors worth just as much as indoors
 That time is going to come. That is
 only hint of what is going to be. The
 time is going to come when, If you
 have anything in your house worth
 looking at-pictures, pieces of sculp-
 ture-you are going to invite me to
 come and see them, you are going to in- l vite my friends to come and see them,
 and you will say: "See what I have
 been blessed with. God has given me
 this, and, so far as enjoying it, 1t is
 yours also. That Is gospel
 | Glance Ahead.
 In crossing the Alleghany mountains
 many years ago the stage halted, and
 Henry Clay dismounted from the stage I and went out on a rock at the very
 verge of the cliff, and he stood there with his cloak wrapped about him, and l he seemed tn be listening for sone-