The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-10-14

broadcloth shoulder of capital and puts
the other on the homespun covered
shoulder Of toll, and says, with voice
that will grandly and gloriously settle
this, and settle everything. ''Whatso-
ever We wouiu that men should do to
you, do ye even SO them" That
is, the lady of the household
will say: Il must treat the maid in
the kitchen just as | would like to be
treated if | 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 |, that is no fault Of
hers; shall not treat her as all enemy.
| will have the same industry and
fidelity downstairs as | would expect
from my suborIinates, if | happened
to be the wife of a silk importer"
The owner of an iron, mill having
taken dose of my text before leaving
home in the morning, will 60 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
J him: 'Why, it seems to be very hot in
here. You look very much exhausted.
| hear your child is sick with scarlet
fever. If you want your wages little
earlier this week, 50 as to pay the nurse
and get the medicines. just come into
Iay office any time"
After awhile, crash goes the money
market, and there is no more demand
| Tor the articles manufactured in that
! mill, and the owner does not know
| what to do. He says: "Shall : stop
the mill, or shall [ run it on half time,
or shall | cut down the mems wages?"
lie walks the floor OF his counting
room all day, hardly knowing what to
/ do. Toward evening he calls all the
labcrerS together They stand ali
! around. some with arms a!1imllo, some
with folded arms, wondering what the
| boss is going to do now. The manu-
| facturer says: MEN, times are very
| hard; | don't make $40 where | used
! to make 500. Somehow. there is 10
demand now for what we manufacture,
y i
am at vast expense, and | have called
| you together this afternoon to see
| what you would advise. | don't want
to shut down 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 anew
dress. l don't know what to do"
There is d dead halt for 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
pcred we prospered, and now YOU are
IN tight place and | am sorry, and we
have got to sympathize with you. |
don't know how the others feel, but l
propose that we take off % per cent
from our wages, and that when the
times get good you will remember us
and raise them again The work. man
looks around to his comrades. and SAYS:
Boys, what 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 machinery, exposes himself very
much, and takes cold, and it settles to
pneumonia, and he dies. In the process
sion to the tomb are all the workmen,
tears rolling down their cheeks, and off
upon the ground; but an hour before
the procession gets to the Genet terry the
| wives and the children of those work
| arrival Of the funeral pageant. The
minister of religion may have delivered
an eloquent eulOgium before they
started from the house, but the most
impressive things are said that day by
the working classes standing around
the tomb.
That night in all the cabins of the
working people where they have fam
lily prayers the wiIowhood and the Or
phana sc in the mansion are remem-
bered. No glaring populations look
over the iron fence of the cemetery;
but, lowering over the scene, the ben
ediction Of God and man is coming for
the fulfillment of the Christlike in
! junction: whatsoever We would that
men should do to you, do you even SO
| to tn en-
''Oh,' says some man. "that is all
Utopian, that is apocryphal, that is i'm
| possible" No. | cut out of paper
this: 'One of the peaslnte, st incidents
recorded in long time is reported
from Sheffield, England. The wages
of the men in the iron works at Sheffield
are regulated by a board of arbtra-
ton, by whose decision both masters
and men are bound. For some time
past the iron aad steel trade has been
, extremely Improbable, and the en-
pioyerS can not, 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 the device as rare as it was gem
erous. They 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. En-