The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-05-24
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LABOR AND CAPITAL LAST
SUNDAYS sUBJEc!.


There Is a Christian Remedy for All
Industrial misunderstanding sugges-
lions as to How the Irrepressible Con-
Aict May BE Settled Forever.
downright, 1900, by Louis ISlopsch.l
Texts, Galatians W 10, But. IL We
Dite and devour one another take heed
tina. We be not consumed one of an
other" and Philippians ii, look
not every man on his own. things, but
every man also on the things Of oth-
ers..'''s
About every six months there is a
great labor agitation. There are vio-3
lent questions now In discussion be-
tween employers and employees. The
.present strikes will go into the past
OF course, the damage done cannot
Immediately beyrepaired. Wages will
not be so high as they were. Spas
medically they may be higher, but they
will drop lower. Strikes, whether
right or wrong, always injure labor
ers as we'll as capitalists. You will see
this in the starvation of next winter.
Boycotting and violence! and murder
never pay. They are different stages
OF anarchy. God never blessed muir
der. The worst use you can put a man
to is to kill him. Blow up tomorrow
all the country seats on the banks Of
the Hudson and the Rhine and all the
fine houses on Madison square and
Brooklyn Heights and Rittenhouse
square and Beacon street, and all the
bricks and timber and stones will just
fall lack on the bare hands Of Amer
sican and European labor. 'sss ISL
Neglect of Christian Duty.
The behavior of multitude of la
tore.s toward their employers dur
ing the last three months may have
induced some employers to neglect the
real Christian duties that they owe to
those whom they employ Therefore
y want to say to you whom confront
face to face and those to whom these
words may come that all shipowners,
all capitalists, all commercial firms,
all master builders, all housewives. are
bound to be interested in the entire
welfare Of their subordinates. Years
ago some one gave three prescriptions
for becoming a millionaire: First,
spend your life in getting and keeping
the earnings OF other people; secondly,
have no anxiety about the worriments,
the losses, the disappointments, of
others; thirdly, do not mind the fact
that your vast. wealth implies the pow
erty Of great many people, Now,
there is not a man here would consent
to go into life with those three prin-
ciples to earn fortune. 1t Is your
desire to do your whole duty to the
men and women In your service.
First OF all, then, pay as large
wages as are reasonable and as your
business will AFFORD not necessarily
what others pay, certainly not what
your hired help say you must pay, for
that is tyranny on the part Of labor
unbearable. The right Of a 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
ia 40 nj .s4s When any empower q.
i lows laborer to say what he mus
do or have his business ruined and tn
employer submits to 1t. he does ever.
business man in the United States
Y wrong and yields to the principl
(which, carried out, would dissolve SO
q ciety. Look over your affairs and pu
Il yourselves In Imagination in your la
! borer's place, and then pay him wha
before God and your own conscienc
you think you ought to pay him.
"God bless yous.' are well in thei
place, but they do not buy coal no
lzpay house rent nor get shoes for tn
children. At the same time you, tn
employer, ought to remember througl
what straits and strains you got tn
fortune by which you built your stor
or run the factory. You are to remem
her that you take all the risks and tn
employee takes none or scarcely any
You are to remember that there ma
be reverses in fortune and that som
new style Of machinery may max
lyour machinery valueless or some ney
style Of tariff set your business bacl
hopelessly and forever. You mus
take all that into consideration, an
then pay what is reasonable.
Cutting Down Wages.
Do not be too ready to cut dow
, wages. As far as possible, pay all, an
pay promptly. There is great dea
LOT. Bible teaching on this subject
. Malachi: II will be swift witness