Connecticut western news., 1899-08-17

and that should be added up and put into a cooperative association. And then take all that money expended for overdress and overstyle and overliv- ing on the part of toiling people in order that they may appear as we'll as persons who have more income-gather that all up and you could have CO., operative associations all over this land.
 Trades Unions.
 am not saying anything now about trades unions. You want to know what think of trades unions. think they are most beneficial In some directions, and they have a specific object, and in this day, when there are vast monopo- lies-a thousand monopolies concen- trating the wealth of the people into the possession of few men-unless the laboring men of this country and all countries band together they will go under. There Is lawful use of trade union. If 1t means sympathy in time of sickness, If 1t means finding work for people when they are out of work, if it means the improvement of the financial, the moral or the religious condition of the laboring classes, that is all right Do not artists band to- gether in an art union? Do not singers band together in Handel and Hadyn societies? Do not newspaper men band together in press clubs? Do not min isters of religion band together in con- ferences and associations? There Is not in all the land city where clergy men do not come together, many of them once a week, to talk over affairs. For these reasons you should not blame labor guilds. When they are doing their legitimate work, they are most admirable, but when they come around with drum and fife and flag from their scaffoldings, from their fac tories, then they are nihilisdc, then they are communistic, then they are barbaric, then they are curse. IT a man wants to stop work, let him stop work, but he cannot stop me from work.
 But now suppose that all the laboring classes banded together for benefcent purposes in cooperative association, under whatever name they put their means together. Suppose they take the money that they waste in rum and tobacco and use 1t for the elevation of their families. for the education Of their children, for their moral, intel Iectual and religious improvement, what a different state of things we would have in this country and they would have In Great Britain!
 Do you not realize the fact that men work better without stimulant? You say, "Will you deny the laboring men this help which they get from strong drink, borne down as they are with many anxieties and exhausting workT I would deny them nothing that is good for them would deny them strong drink, if I had the power, be- cause 1t is damaging to them. My father said: "I became a temperance man in early life because I found that in the harvest field, while was natu- rally weaker than the other men, l could hold out longer than any of then. They took stimulant and took none."
 Everybody knows they cannot en- dure great fatigue-men who indulge in stimulants. All our young men un- derstand that When they are prepar- ing for the regatta, or the ball club, or the athletic wrestling, they abstain from strong drink. Now, suppose all this money that is wasted were gath cred together and put into cooperative institutions. Oh, we would have very different state of things from what we have now.
 Practice Economy.
 I remark again, the laboring classes of this country are to find great relief when they learn, all of them learn, forecast and providence. Vast num- bers of them put down their income and they put down their expenses, and If the income meets the expenses that Is all that is necessary. I know labor ing men who are in a perfect fidget until they have spent their last dollar. They fly around everywhere until they get 1t spent. A case came under my where young man was receiving S700 year and earned it by very hard work. The marriage day came The bride had received $500 as an inheritance from her grandfather. She put the $500 In wedding equip ment. Then the twain hired two rooms on the third story. Then this man, who had most arduous employ ment, just as much as he could possi- ply endure, got evening employment so he could earn a few dollars more ment almost extinguished his eye tight. Why did he take this extra evening employment? Was 1t to lay by something for rainy day? No. Was 1t to get life insurance so that If he should die his wife would not be pauper? No. It was for the one purpose of getting his wife $150 sealskin sacque. am just giving you a fact know. The sister of this wo- man, although she was a very poor girl, was not to be eclipsed, and so she went to work day and night and toiled and toiled and toiled almost in- to the grave until she got $150 seal Skln SaCQue! well, tue news WeuL abroad all through the street. Most of the people on that street were la boring hard working people, and they were not to be outshone in this way, and they all went to work in the same direction and practically said, though not literally, Though the heavens fall, we must have a sealskin sacquep'
 A clergyman in Iowa told me that his church and the entire neighbor. hood had been ruined by the fact that the people mortgaged their farms in order to go down to the Philadelphia Centennial In 1876. First, one family would go, then another family, and finally 1t was not respectable not to go to the Centennial at Philadelphia, and they mortgaged their farms. The church and the neighborhood ruined in that way. Now, between such fools and pauperism there Is only a very short step. In time of peace prepare for war. In time of prosperity prepare for diversity. Yet how many there are who drive on the verge of the