The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-08-18

Of our pennies i'm value, so the Chinese
carry the cash. as they call it, like
string of beads around the neck? 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 everythiHg. 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 brother TO all the opera
tives in the establishment-mad 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
tan 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 | know who walk
around among their employees with a
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 i'm their
vest pockets, chiefly anxious when they
/ go among laboring men not to be
| touched 10y 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 it.
| DO not get out of the world like that
man who died in New York leaving in
| his will S4O,000,O0O, yet giving how
| much for the church of God. how much
| for the alienation of human suffering?
lie gave some money little while be-
fore he died. That was well. but in all
this will of $4,000, 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. \ man in will giving $40,-
100000 and not one cent to God! 1t is
Il disgrace to our civilization. Or. as H.
Illustrated in a letter which | have CON
corning a man who departed this life
leaving between S5.000,OOO and SS,00O.-
GOO. Not one dollar was left, this writer
says, to comfort the aged workmen
ana worllwomen. not one dollar 20 ele-
waite and instruct the hundreds of pale
children who stifed their childish
growth in the heat and clamor of his
factory. Is il strange that the curse of
the children Of toll follows such in
gratitude? How well could one of his
many millions have been dsbursed for
the present and the future benefit of
those whose hands had woven literally
the fabric of the dead mans princely
fortune. & capitalists of the United
States, be your own executors! Be
George Peabody, If need be, on a small
scale. God has made you a steward.
Discharge your responsibility.
My word is to all laboring men in this
country; | congratulate you at your
Frightening prospects. | congratulate
you on the fact that you are get
ting your representatives at AL
bany, at Harrisburg and at Wash
ington. | have only TO mention such
a 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. l congratulate you
also at the opportunities for your chill
dren. | congratulate you that you have
to work and that when you are dead
your children will have to work.
l congratulate you also on your OPP
portunities for information. Plato paid
$1,000 for two books. jerome ruined
himself financially by buying one
volume of "Origen." What vast oppor-
] 'NAltiN9 ~ lhAIlliStHtt LOT you ana
your children! \ worlingman goes.
along by the show window of some
great publishing house, and he sees a
book that costs five dollars. lie says:
81 wish | could have that information.
| 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 day for the
workingmen of America as this day and
the day that is coming.
also congratulate you because your
work is only predatory and lntroduc-
tory. You want the grace of Jesus
Christ, the Carpenter of Nazareth. He
toiled Himself, and lie knows how to
sympathize with all who toll. Get His
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