Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-09-15

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 ia called the pudding
room, he will see man there stripped ia
the waist and hesweated 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. 1
hear your child Ia sick with scarlet fever
II you want your wages IA little earlier this
week, so as to pay the nurse and get the
medicines, just come into my office any
time
In this country the torch put to the fac.
tories that have discharged hands for good
or bad reasons, instructions on che rail
track in front OF midnight express trains
because the offenders do not like the Pres l.
dent of the company, strikes on shipboar,i
the hour they were going to sail or in the
printing offices the hour the paper was to
go to press. or in mines the day the coal
was to be- delivered, or ON house scaffold-
inSs so the builder, fails In keeping his con-
tract-all these are only a hard blow on
the head of American labor and cripple its
arms and lame Its feet and pierce his heart
! Traps sprang suddenly. upon EMPLOYERS
and Violence never took one knot out of the
knuckle of toll or put one farth.ng of
wages into cailous palm. Baybarism will
never cure the wrongs St civilization
Mark that,
Frederick tho Great admired some land
near his palace at Potsdam, and he resolved
20 get 1t. 1t was owned by a miller. He
offered the miller. threa times the value Of
the property, Ihe miller would not take 1t
Hbec0Use was the old homestead, and he
felt about As Naboth snit about his vine>
yard when Ahah wanted 1t. Frederiok the
Great WAS /. rough and terrible man. and
/ he os1i-red the miller into his presence, and
the king, with n Stiok In his hand-a stick
with which he sometimes struck hts officers
Of stGta-said to this miller, Now, have
offered you three times the value of that
property, and Il You. won't sell it I'll take it
anyhow The miller said. 'Your majesty,
you won't" Eyes" said the king, Il will
take it." ''Then," said the miuer, f'if your
majesty does take it ! will sue you in the
| ehaneery court" At that threat Frederick
the Great yielded his infamous demand.
And the most imperious outrage against
she working cha ises Will yet cover before
will never accomplish anything, but right
! eousness and according to law will accom-
plish it,
After awhile crash goes the money IN ar
Set, and there is no more demand for the
articles manufactured in that iron mill,
| and the owner does Lot hnow what to do.
He says: shall ! stop the mill or shall L
run 1t or hair time. or shall | cut down the
mems waSes?" He walks -. tIoor of his
counting room e.s day, hardly knowing
! - to do. Toward evening he calls all
| the laborers togetkes. They stand all
| around, some With arms akin bo, some with
folde! arms wondering what the boss is
going to do now. The manufacturer says:
1 Men, times are very hard. / don't make
$40 where used 10 make 300. Somehow,
there IS no demand now for what we manu-
facture, or but very little demand. You
| see, am at vast expense, and 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 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 do
There Is dead halt for q 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 prospered, and now
/ You are in atight place and am sorry and
we have got to sympathiz. with you. |
lont know how the others feel, but l pro-
| pose that we take off twenty per cent. from
our wages and that when the times get
| good you will remember and raise them
! again. The workman looks around to his
| comrades and says: Boys, wha. do You
say to this? All In favor of my proposition
| will say aye
Aye, aye, aye!'' shout 200 voices
] But the mill owner, getting in some new
l machinery, exposes himself very much and
] ;akes cold, and it settles into pneumonia
and he dies. In the procession to the tomb
are all the workmen, tears rolling down
their checks and off upon the gr ,und. but
an hour before the procession gets to the
cemetery the wives and the children of those
l 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
| nj .li haf law Inv ha in, al
| standing around the tomb.
| That night in all the cabins of the work
ing people where they have family prayers
the wiiowhood and the orphanage IN the
mansion are remembered. No glaring pop
ulationS look over the iron fence of the
Hcemetery, but, lowering over the scene, the
lbenodioLion of God and man is Dming for
:he fuhilment of the Christlike injunction,
t'Thatsoever ye would that men should do
to You, do ycG oven so to them
] "ok,' y says some man here, 'that Is all
Ctoptan, that Is apocryphal. that Is impos-
sible." No. cut out Of a paper this: "One
Of the pleasantest Incidents recorded In
long timn Is reported from Sheffield Eng
land. The wages Of the men In the iron
works at Sheffield are regulated by board
of arbitration, by whose decision both mas
ters and men are bound. For some time
past the iron and steel trade has been ex-
tremely unprotabe, and the employers
,aunot, without much loss, pay the wages
fixed by the board, which neither employ
| ers nor employed have the power to change
To avoid this difficulty the workmen in one
Of the largest steel works in Sheffield hit
upon Il device rs rare as It was generous.
| rhey offered to work for their employers
one week without any pay whatever
But You go with me, and will show you
not so far off as Sheffield, England-fac-
| tories, banking houses, storehouses and
| costly enter prises where this Christlike in
junction of my text Is fully kept, and you
could no more get the employer to practice
| an inj ustice 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 antaSonism. Now where is
this to begin? In our homes, in our stores,
on our farns-not waiting for other people
to do their duty. Is there a divergence
now between the parior 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 something wrong
either behind the counter or in the private
| office, or perhaps in both.
| The great want Of the world to day is the
! fultiiment of this Christlike injunction,
that which he promulgated in His sermon
Oiivctic. All the political economists un-
der the archvault of the heavens in con
vention for 1000 years cannot settle this
controversy between monopoly and hard
work, between capital and labor. During
the Revolutionary War there was heavy
piece of timber to be lifted, perhaps for
some fortress, and the corporal was over
seeing the work, and he Was giving com
mands to some soldiers rs they lifted
"Heave away, therel YO heavel' Well the
timber was too heavy; they could not get
it up. There was n gentleman riding by
on a horse, aud he stopped and said 1,
this corporal: "Why don't you help then
lift? That timber is too heavy for them t.
lift" Mo- he said, Il won't. l am
corporal" The gentleman got OF hi
horse aud came up to the place. "Now,
.le said to the soldiers, all tngether-y
leayc!'' and the timber went to its place
Now said the gentleman tothe corporal
"when you havea piece of timber too
heavy for the men to lift, and you wan
help, you send to your commander in
, chief 1t was Washington. Now, that /
| about all the gospel know-the gospel o
| giving somebody n lift a lit out of dark