The Grit-advocate., 1900-05-25
LABOR AND CAPITAL LAST
SUNDAYS SUBJECT.
There Ii . Christian Remedy for AL
Industrial Observation-Disclosures
tions a. to How the Irrcpressible Con-
nict May Be Settled Forever.
copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch.l ]

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other" and Philippians ii, 4. Look
not every man on his own things, but
every man also on the things OF 9TH
ers."
About every six months there Is
great labor agitation. There are vio-
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 be repaired. 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 well 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 mur-
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 Rttenhouse
square and Beacon street, and all the
bricks and timber and stones will just
fall back on the bare hands Of Amer
lean and European labor.
Neglect Of Christian Duty.
The behavior of a multitude of la
borers 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
l 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 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 a great many people," Now,
to 90 into life with those three prin-
ciples to earn fortune. It 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
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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
is despicable. When any employer al
lows a laborer to say what he must
employer submits to it, he does every
business man in the United States
wrong and yields to the principle
which, carried out, would dissolve So
ciety. Look over your affairs and put
yourselves in imagination In your la
borer's place. and then pay him what
before God and your own conscience
you think you ought to pay him.
God bless yous" are well in their
place, but they do not buy coal nor
pay house rent nor get shoes for the
children. At the same time you, the
employer, 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-
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