The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-05-26

E spend your life in getting and keepin
the earnings of other people; secondly
have no anxiety about the worrimenti
the losses, the disappointments of oh
, ers; thirdly do not mind the fact tina
your vast wealth implies the povert.
of great many people," Now. Their
is not man here who would consen
10 go into life with those three prin
ciples to earn fortune. II is your de
sire TO do your whole duty to the mel
and women in your service.
First of all, then, pay as large wages
as are reasonable and as your bust
ness will afford--not necessarily wha
Others pay. certainly not what you
hired help say you must pay, for thai
is tyranny on the part of labor unbear
able. The right OF laborer to tell his
employer what he must pay implies the
right of an employer to compel man
into service whether he will or not
and either of those ideas is despicable
When any employer allows laborer
to say what he must do or have his
business ruined and the employer
submits to it, he does every business
man in the United States wrong and
yields TO the principle which, carried
out. would dissolve society. Look over
your affairs and put yourselves in i'm
agination in your laborer's place.
God bless yous" are well in their
place, but they do not buy coal nor pay
house rent nor get shoes for the chill
dren. At the same time you, the en-
ployer, ought to remember through
what straits and strains you got the
fortune by which you built your store
or run the factory. You are to remem-
Der that you take all the risks and the
employee takes none or scarcely any.
You are TO remember that there may
be reverses in fortune and that some
new style of machinery may make your
machinery valueless or some new style
of tariff set your business back hope
lessly and forever. You must take all
that. into consideration. and then pay
what is reasonable.
Do not be too ready to cut down
wages. AS far as possible, pay all, and
pay promptly. There is great deal of
Bible teaching on this subject. Malachi:
81 will be swift witness against all
sorcerers and against all adulterers
and against those who oppose the hire
ling in his wages" Leviticus: Thou
shalt not keep the wages of the hireling
all night unto the morning. Colos
slams: Masters, give unto your serv
that which &c npH arIol
knowing that We also have Master
in Heaven" So yoa see it is not
question between you and your en-
ploye so much as it is a question be-
tween you and God.
Do not say to your employees: "Now,
if you don't like this place get another"
when you know they cannot get an
other. AS far as possible, once year
visit at their homes your clerks and
your workmen. That is the only way
you can become acquainted with their
wants. You will by such process find
out that there is blind parent or
sick sister being supported. You will
find some of your young men in rooms
any fire in winter, and in sum-
mer sweltering in ill-ventilated apart
nents. You will End out how much
depends on the wages you pay or with
hold.
Moreover it is your duty as employer,
is far as possible, to mold the welfare
If the employe. You ought to advise
him about investments, about life in
'urance, about savings banks. You
ought to give him the benefit of your
experience. There are hundreds and
thousands of employers. am glad to
ay, who are settling in the very best
possible way the destiny of their en-
)loyes. Such men as Marshall of Leeds,
lister of Bradford, Akroyd of Halifax,
nd men so near at home it might of
end their modesty if l mentioned their
men have built reading
ooms, libraries, concert halls, afford
ID croquet lawns, cricket grounds,
tymnasiums, choral societies for their
Employees, and they have not merely
aid the wages on Saturday night, but
through the contentment and the
hrift and the good morals of their en-
ACyNo my pay NdSVS lIOuI |
eneration to generation forever.
But, above all, 1 charge you. O en-
loyers, that you look after the moral
nd spiritual welfare of your employees.
'irst. know where they spend their
venings. That decides everything.
'ou do not want around your money
rawer young man who went last |
light to see Jack Sheppard" A man {
hat comes into the store in the morn I
1g CHASTITY with midnight reveIry is I
OF the man for your store. The young
ian who spends his evening in the So {
iety of refined women or in musical |
r artistic circles or in literary inn t
rovement is the young man for your
tore. f
Do not say of these young men: "If d
ley do their work in the business
ours, that is all | have to ask" God n
as made you that mans guardian. 1 S
ant you to understand that many of d
lese young men are orphans, or worse v
ian orphans, flung Out into society to p
lruggle for themselves. A young man o
pitched into the middle of the Allan. Il
c ocean, and a plank is pitched after il
m, and then he is told to take that "
Id swim ashore. Treat that young
an as you would like to have your 81
IN treated il you were dead. Do not a
cad on him. Do not swear at him. W
o not send him on useless errand, Ct
~ good morning" and good night" a
Id "good-by." You are deciding that al
Jung mans destiny for two worlds. ''
Sir Titus Salt had wealth which was lie
yond computation, and at Saltaire l