The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-09-09

fidelity down stairs as would expect from
my subordinates II happened to be the
wife Of q silk importer"
The owner Of an iron mill. having taken
a dose OF my text before leaving home in
the morning, will go into his foundry, and.
passing into what Is called the puddling
room, he will see man there stripped to
the waist and besweated and exhausted
with the labor and the toll, and he will saw
to him: "Why, 1t seems to be- very hot In
here. You look very much exhausted.
hear your child is sick with scarlet fever.
II you want your wages 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, distractions on the rail
track in front Of midnight express trains
because the offenders do not like the Presi l.
dent OF the company, strikes on shipboard
the hour they were going to sail or in the
printing offices tho hour the paper was to
go to press, or in mines the day the coal
was to be delivered, or on house scaffold-
ings 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 sprung suddenly upon employers
and violence never took one knot out of the
knuckle Of toll or put one farthing of
wages into a callous palm. Barbarism will
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to get 1t. 1t was owned by miller. He
offered the miller three times the value of
the property. The miller would not take it
because 1t was the old homestead, and he
felt about as Naboth felt about his vine
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| WI. never aGcomPlish nnythlnS, put right
eoushess anu according 10 law Will accom-
pi'sh IT,
After awhile cra,h goes the money mar
ket, and there Is no more demand for the
articles manufactured in that iron mill,
and the owner does not hnow what to do
He says: "Shall | stop the mill, or shall
run 1t on half time, or shall / cut down the
mems wages2" He walks the floor of his
counting room all day, hardly knowing
what to do. Toward evening he calls ali
the laborers together. They stand all
around, some with arms akimbo, some with
folded arms, wondering what the boss Is
| going to do now. The manufacturer says:
Men, times are very hard. l don't make
| 800 where used to make 800. Somehow,
| there Is no demand now for what we manu-
| facture, or but very little demand. You
| see, am at vast expense, andI 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
new dress. don't know what to do"
There is dead halt for a minute or two.
and then one Of the workmen steps out
from the ranks Of his fellows and saws
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 sympathize with you. |
don't know how the others feel but | pro-
pose that we take off twenty per cent. from
our wages aud that when the times get
good you will remember us and raise them
again" The workman looks around to his
comrades and says: Boys, what do you
say to this2 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 into pneumonia
and he dies. In the procession to the tomb
are all the workmen, tears rolling down
their cheeks and off upon the ground, but
an hour before tho procession gets to the
cemetery the wives and the children ofthose
workmen are ut the grave waiting for the
arrival of the funeral pageant. The minis
ter OF religion may have delivered an elo-
quent euloSium 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 work
ing people where they have family prayers
the widowhood and the orphanage In the |
mansion are remembered. No glaring pop
ulations look over the iron fence Of the |
cemetery, but lowering over the scene, the |
benediction of God and man is coming for |
:he fuliillment of the Christlike injunction, |
whatsoever ye would that men should do |
to you. do you even so to them"
"Oh," says some man here, "that is all |
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