Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-07-10

combined capital and individual capital
widen. So long will organized and unor-
ganized labor continue TO separate and the
hostility become more and more pro-
nounced between them.
Look not every man on his own things,
but every man also on the things of 9TH
ers.' Again, there is a need of a new re-
generation in the industrial world along
the line of capital toward labor. and labor
toward capital. as we'll as capital toward
capital and labor toward labor.
Capital. that is men who employ, men
for whom other men labor, need to be
taught that the gospel of Jesus Christ calls
upon them to look not only on their side
OF the business, viz: the profits but that
they should carefully consider the interests
of the men and their families who toll for
them. And also the interests of those who
consume the products of their concern.
i. Do the wages paid these men and
their families buy the necessities of life
so that they can live in peace and COM
fort by practicing proper care? Can they
AFFORD to keep their children In the schools
and provide them with proper food and
clothing, and so on. instead of having 10
take them out of the schools and put them
into the mills and factories while they are
only children? / am impressed. more and
more, as | see how the children are put
into the mills and factories before they
are physically or mentally able to go into
such places. not saying anything OF the
impure moral atmosphere that exists in
many of these places and the constant
temptations that come TO these children In
the time when habits and character are
formed. Here is a place for all men who
are in the position of employers TO exer-
else the exhortation of the text and look
on both sides of their business.
2. Again, are the sanitary conditions of
the place where men and women are asked
to spend from eight to twelve hours of the
twenty-four such that they can do tho
best work and not endanger the health and
vigor of the employees? For when these
are broken all who are dependent upon
them are made TO suffer. and in very many
cases they become a burden upon the char
tiles of the public. Here is a vast field for
thought, and also for change III life. For
a new and wider regeneration than we
have been preaching and prac.icing in the
past The need of this is seen also on the
other side of this great subject Of the en-
ployer and the employed.
The lahorer needs ever TO keep In mind
the interests of his employer as we'll as
his own. He is my brother and I am his
brother. 1 think i can best Illustrate this
side of the text here by reference 20 myself
and many Of my class. We are many times
put down as in sympathy with the capital
list and out of sympathy with toilers OF
the world. We are somehow looked upon
as a kind Of arfcfoCr1tc ac n vuha n otfn
no trials and no hardshlps, and so on.
when the facts are we belong to the class
of the worlds toilers and go out and he
&C m servants of humanity without any
say or at most, very little. as 10 what we
shat! have for our labors, and nave no
meals by which We can make sure Of what
We are promised.
How am | to look upon life? Am I 20
view 1t as a place to get all 1 can for just
as little as / can give? Am / to look only
on my side OF life and ignore the side OF
the great public for whom / labor? Here
is a case free from all prejudice. and one
which you can see In it's true light. You
can all see that it is my business as a
brother to spend my life In the interest
of my employers. Every other employee,
laborer, holds precisely the same relations
to his employers as ] do to mine.
Every man should say and act as though
he were a brother TO every other man. and
in so far as he can be. he is his brothers
keeper and helper. for such he is in the
great family OF a common Father OF a
worldwide humanity. Lord hasten the
day when we shall thus see eye to eye. and
feel heart to heart!
How 1t would hasten the coming reign OF
peace so long foretold and so often prayed
for.
Lord give us a vision Of our duty to our
fellow men In the light OF the text. and Of
its foundation. the sayings of Jesus Christ.
the worlds greatest servant and bene-
factor.