St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-06-23
wsehare of their 'ssauboriinaltes. Years

welfare of their suborlinateS. Year
ago someone gave three prescription
for becoming millionaire: First
. spend your life in getting and keepin.
the earnings of other people; secondly
) have no hnxiety about the worriments
The losses. the disappointments Of 9th
. ers; thirdly. do not mind the fact tha'
your vast wealth implies the poverty
of great many people," Now, ther.
is not q man here who would consen,
to go into life with those three prin
ciples to earn a fortune. 1t is your de
sire to do your whole duty to the mer
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 your
hired help say you must pay, for that
is tyranny on the part of labor unbear.
able. The right of a laborer to tell his
employer what he must pay implies the
right of an employer to compel man
into a service whether he will or not,
and either of those ideas is despicable.
hnCh~ ally aho"S q AdooASA
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 a 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.s At the same time you,S the en-
ployer, ought to remember through
what straits and strains you got the
fortune by which you built your store
or ran the factory. You are to remem-
Der that you take all the risks and the
employe 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 svalueless 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'S a great deal Of
Bible teaching on this subject. Malachi:
II will be a swift witness against all
sorcerers and against all adplteFers
and against tAote who oppose the hire
ling in his .wages.s Leviticus Thou
shalt not keep the wages of the hireling
all night unto the morning." Colos-
slams: Masters. give unto your serv-
ants that which is just and equal.
knowing that We also have Master
in Heaven" So you 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,
ifyen don't Ike 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 snch process find
out that there is blind parent or
sick sister being supported. You will
find some Of your young men in rooms
without any fire in winter, and in sum-
mer sweltering in ill-ventilated apart
ments. You will find out how much
depends on The wages you pay or with
hold.
Moreover. it is your duty as employer,
as far as possible. to mold the welfare
Of the employe. You ought to advise
him about investments, about life in
suranee, about savings banks. ! You
ought to give him the benefit of your
experience. There are hundreds and
thousands of employers, am glad to
say, who are settling in the very best
possible way the destiny of their en-
ployes. Such men as Marshall Of Leeds,
Lister Of Bradford. Akroyd of Halifax.
and men SO near at home it might Of
fend their modesty ii mentioned their
names-these men have built reading
rooms. libraries. concert halls, afford |
ed croquet lawns, cricket grounds,
.gymnasiums, choral societies for their |
employees; and they have not merely |
paid the wages on Saturday night. but |
through the contentmeDt and the |
thrift and the good morals of their en- |
ployes they are paying wages from
generation to generation forever.
But, above all, I charge you, o en-
ployers, that you look after the moral |
and spiritual welfare of your employees.
First, know where they spend their
evenings. That decides everything.
You do not want around your money
drawer young man who went last
night to see Jack Sheppard" A man
that comes into the store in the morn
ing CHASTITY with midnight revelry.is
not the man for your store. The young
man who spends his evening in the So
ciety of refined women or in musical
or artistic circles or in literary im-
provement is the young man for your
store.
Do not say of these young men: '.If
they do their work in the business
hours, that is all / have to ask" God
has made you that mans guardian. I
want you to understand that many o.
these young men are orphans, or worse
than orphans, flung out into society to
struggle for themselves. A young man
is pitched into the middle of the Allan
'ic ocean, and q plank is pitched afte.
him, and then he is told to take tha,
and swim ashore. Treat that young
man as You would like to have your
SON treated If you were dead. Do not
tread ON him. Do not swear at him.
Do not send him on a useless errand.
Say good morning" and good night"
and "good-by." You are deciding that
voung mans destiny for two worlds
Sir Titus Salt had wealth which was
,eyond computation, and at Saltaire.
England, he had a church and chapel
'uilt and supported by himself-the
:hurch for those who preferred the
Episcopal service. and the chapel for
hose who preferred the Methodist I
ervice. At the opening Of one Of his
actories he gave a. great dinner. and
here were $500 people present. and
a his after dinner speech he said to
hese people gathered: 81 cannot look
POUND me and see this vast assem-