The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1899-1900, 1899-08-16

string OIL DeadS around the neckI we
never want to pay less than a penny
for anything in this country. They
must pay that which is worth only the
sixth part or the twelfth part of pen
ny. Heathenism and iniquity and inf
deity depress everything. The Gospel
of Jesus Christ elevates everything.
How do account for this? account
for it with the plainest philosophy.
The religion of Jesus Christ is demo-
cratic religion. 1t tells the employer
that he is a brother to all the opera
tives in the establishment-made by
the same God, to lie in the same dust
and to be saved by the same supreme
mercy. 1t does not make the slightest
difference how much money you have,
you cannot buy your way into the king
dom of Heaven. If you have the grace
of God in your heart you will enter
Heaven. So you see it is democratic
religion. Saturate our populations
with this gospel, and labor will be re-
spectful, labor will be rewarded, labor
will be honored, capital will be Chris
tian in all its behavior, and there will
be higher tides of thrift set in.
Let me say word to all capitalists:
Be your own executors. Make invest
ments for eternity. Do not be like some
! OF those capitalists l know who walk
around among their employees with
supercilious air or drive up to the fac
tory in manner which seems to indi-
cate they are the autocrat Of the uni
verse, with the sun and moon in their
vest pockets, chiefly anxious when they
go among laboriDg men not to be
touched by the greasy or smirched hand
and have their broadcloth injured. Be
a Christian employer. Remember those
who are under your charge are bone of
your bone and flesh of your flesh, that
Jesus Christ died for them and that
they are immortal. Divide up your
estates, or portions of them, for the
relief of the world before you leave il.
Do not get out of the world like that
man who died in New York leaving in
his will $4O,O00,0o0, yet giving how
much for the church of God, how much
for the alleviation of human suffering?
He gave some money little while be-
fore he died. That was well, but in all
this will of 100000 600 how much? One
million? No. Five hundred thousand?
No. One hundred dollars? No. Two
cents? No. One cent? No. These
great cities groaning in anguish, ma
tions crying out for the bread of ever
lasting life. a man in a will giving Si0,-
100000 and not one cent to God! 1t is
a disgrace TO our civilization. Or, as IL
lustrated in a letter which l have con-
cerning n man who departed this life
leaving between $1,000, 900 and SIS S,0O0,-
900. Not one dollar was left, this writer
says, to comfort the aged workmen
and workwomen, not one dollar to ele-
vate and instruct the hundreds of pale
children who sthed their childish
growth in the heat and clamor of his
factory. Is it strange that the curse of
the children of toll follows such in
gratitude? How well could one of his
many millions have been disbursed for
the present and the future benefit of
those whose hands had woven literally
the fabric of the dead mans princely
fortune, o capitalists of the United
States, be your own executors! Be a
George Peabody, if need be, on a small
scale. God has made you steward.
Discharge your sponsibility.
My word is to all laboring men in this
country: l congratulate you at your
frightening prospects. l congratulate
you on the fact tnat you are get
ting your representatives at AL
bany, at Harrisburg and at Wash
ington. have only to mention such
man of the past as Henry Wilson,
the shoemaker; as Andrew johnson,
the tailor; as Abraham Lincoln, the
boatman. The living illustrations
easily occur TO you. This will 20 on
until you have representatives at all the
headquarters, and you will have full
. justice. Mark that. congratulate you
also at the opportunities for your chill
dren. | congratulate you that you hav
to work and that when you are dead
! your children will have to work.
l congratulate you also on your op-
portunities for information. Plato paid
, $1,000 for two books. Jerome ruined
himself financially by buying one
volume of "0rigen." What vast oppor-
: tunities for intelligence for you and
your children! A workingman goes
along by the show window of some
great publishing house, and he sees a
book that costs five dollars. He says:
81 wish | could have that information.
l wish could raise five dollars for that
costly and beautiful book" A few
months pass on, and he gets the value
of that book for 25 cents in pamphlet.
. There never was such a day for the
workingmen of America as this day and
the day that is coming.
I also congratulate you because your
work is only predatory and introduc-
tory. You want the grace of Jesus
Christ, the Carpenter of Nazareth. He
toiled Himself, and He knows how to
, sympathize with all who toll. Get His
grace in your heart, and you can sing
: on the scaffolding amid the storm, in
the shop showing the plane, in the mine
: plunging the crowbar, on shipboard
: climbing the ratlines. He will make
the drops of sweat On your brow gilt
tering pearls for the eternal coronet
Are you tired? He will rest you. Are
J | YOU sick? He will give Won helm. Are