The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1897-09-10

ana the kltcnenF linen 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
private Office, or perhaps both.
The great want of the world to-day
is the fulfillment of this Christ-like in
| junction. that which He promulgated
in His sermon Olivetic. All the polit-
zeal economists under the archivault
of the heavens in convention for a
thousand years cannot settle this con-
troversy between monopoly and hard
work, between capital and labor
During the revolutionary war there
was heavy piece of timber to be lift
ed, perhaps for some fortress. and a
corporal was overseeing the work.
and he was giving commands to some
soldiers as they lifted: ''Heave away,
there! yo heaver' 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" No he said.
Il won't; am corporal" The gen
tleman got off his horse and came up
| to the place. Now" he said to the
soldiers, ''all tOgether-yO heavew 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 COM
mander-in-chief" 1t was Washington.
Now, that is about all the gospel L
know-rhe gospel of giving somebody
a lift, lift out of darkness, a lift out
of earth into Heaven-the gospel of
helping somebody else to lift.
''Oh," says some wiseacre, talk as
you will the law of demand and supply
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
the world. Do you know who Supply
and Demand are? They have gone in
to partnership and they propose to
swindle this earth and are swindling
it. You are drowning. Supply and
Demand stand on the shore, one on one
side, the other one on the other side of
the lifeboat, and they cry out to you,
Now, you pay MS what we ask you
for getting you to the shore or go OF
the bottom? If you can borrow s., 900
you can keep from failing in
business. Supply and Demand say,
Now, you pay us exOrbitant
usury, or go into bankruptcy" This
robber firm of Supply and Demand say
to you: The crops are short. We
bought up all the wheat that is in our
bin. Now. you pay our price or
starve." 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 the hopper
they put all the men. women, and chill
dren they can shovel out of the CEN
turtles, and the blood and the bones
redden the valley while the mill grinds.
That diabOlic law of supply and de-
mand will vet 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 time? Then do
you not believe the Bible. All the
Bible is full of promises~on this sub
ject, and as the ages roll on the time
will come when men of fortune will be
giving larger sums to humanitarian
and evangelistic purposes, and there
will be more James Lenoxes and Peter
Coopers and William E. Dodges and
George PeabOdys. As that times comes
there will be more parks, more picture
galleries. more gardens thrown open
for the holiday people and the work
ing classes
The great patriot of France, Victor
Hugo, died. The $4,000 in his will
given to the poor of the city was only
hint of the work he did for all ma
tions and all times. l wonder not
that they allowed eleven days to pass
between his death and his burial, his
body meanwhile kept under triumphal
arch, for the world could hardly afford
to let go this man who for more than
eight decades had by his unparalleled
genius blessed it HIS name shall be
terror to all despots and an encourage
ment to the struggling. He made the
worlds burden lighter, and it's dark
ness less dense, and its chain less gall
ing, and its thrones of iniquity less
secure.
But Victor Hugo was not the over
towering friend of mankind. The
greatest friend of capitalist and toiler,
and the one who will yet bring them
together in complete accord, was born
one Christmas night while the curtains
of Heaven swung, stirred by the wings
angelic. Owner of all things--all the
continents, all worlds, and all the is
lands of light Capitalist of immensely,
crossing over to our condition. Coming
into our world, not by gate of pal
ace, but by door of barn. Spending
His first night amid the shepherds.
Gathering afterward around Him the
fishermen TO be His chief attendants.
With ADJ, and saw, and chisel,
and AK, and in carpenter