The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1900-06-23

lessly and forever. You must take all tina
1. Into consideration and then pay what
reasonable.
Do not be too ready to cut down wage:
As far az possible, pay all, and pay promp;
II ly. There is q great deal OF Bible teachin
=, OF his subject. Malachi, Il will be Il swift
= witness against all sorcerers aud Ggliu5
= all ndnltercis aud against those who op
pose the iireling 10 his wages" Leviticu7
"Thou shalt not keep the wages OF the hire
n ling all night unto the morning" Colos
: slams. Masters, give unto your servant
@ that which Is just and equal, knowing tina
a We also have Master in heaven." SO 20,
j. SEQ 1t is not a question between you ant
: your employo 50 much as 1t Is Il question
q between You and God.
/. DO not say to your employees, "Now. IL
8 you don't like this place, get another
\ when you know they cannot get another
a AS far rs possible, once u year visit at thci
homes your clerks and your workmen
t Tint is the only way you can become ac
quantcd with their wants.
, You will by such process find out that
| thcro is n blind parent or n sick sister be-
ing supported. You will find some Of your
young men In rooms without any fire in
winter and IN summer sTeitering in i'll
ventilated apartments. You will find much
depends on the wages you pay or with.
hold
Moreover, 1t is your duty az employer, as
| itt itUSSlbib, ~ UlUlu tEe NtlluEt OIL the
employc. You ought to advise him about
Investments. about life Insurance. about
savings bann3. You ought to give him the
benefit Of your experience.
There are hundreds and thousands o.
employers, am1clad 50 say, who arc Get
thing in the very best possible way the des
tiny OF their employees. Such mon as Mur
shall Of Leeds, Lister of Bradford, Akroyd
OF Halifax and men so near at home it
| might Offend their modesty If / mentioned
| their names-thcse men have built reading
rooms, Libraries, concert halls, afforded
| croquct lawns, cricket grounds, gymna.
Sums, choral societies for ther employees,
and they have not merely paid the wages
on Saturday night, but through the con.
| tentment and tho thrift and tho good
| morals OF their employees they are paying
wages from generation to generation FOR.
| ever.
| Again, I counsel all emplo yers to looI
well after the physical health Of their sub
ordinates. Do not put on them any I'M
necessary fatigue. | never coaid UNDER
stand why the drivers on our city ears
must stand oil DAY when they might Just
as well sit Gown and drive.
1t seems to me IN ost uDrignteOus that so
many of the female CLERKS In orr stores
should be compelled to stand rll day and
through those hours whom there arc but
few or 10 customers. These people have |
aches and annOyances and weariners |
enough without putting upon them addi. |
tlonal fatigue. Unless these female clerks |
must 30 up and down on the business o. |
the store, let theu sit down.
But above all l charge you, o employers,
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 a young man
who went last night to see Jack Shep.
pard! A man that comes into the store
in the morning ghastly with midnight rev.
elry is not the man for your store. The
young man who spends his evening in the
society Of refined women or in musical or
artistic circles or in literary Improvement
Is the young man for your store.
DO not say Of these young men, "If
they do their work in tho business hours.
that IS all have to ask" God has made
you that mans guardian. l want YOU to
understand that many of these young men
are orphans or worse than orphans, flung
out into society to struggle for them.
selves.
Employers, urge upon your employees,
above ALL religious life. 50 far from
mat, low Is 1t, young men? Instead OF
beng checrod on the rond to heaven some
Of You arc caricatu-ed, and 1t is hard
hlnS Tor you to keep your Christian integ-
rity In that store or factory whcre there
ire so many hostile to religion. Ziethen.
!. grave general under Frederick the
treat, was Christian. Frederick the
treat was skeptic. Ono day Ziethen,
ne venerable. white haired general, asked ,
o DO excused from military duty that
10 might attend the holy sacrament.
lie WAS excused. A few days after :
.tethen was dining with the king and $
With many notables OF Prussia, when 9
frederick tho Great in a jocose way :
aid, We'll, Ziethen, how did that sacra-
1ent OF last Friday digcst?" The venera- b
lie CID warrior arose and said "For YOUR
.aIesty have risked my life many Il time
n the battlefield, and for your majesty v
'ould be- wiling any timo to die; but you !
0 Wrcnl, when you insult the Christian
elieion. You will forgive me If 1, your
"a military servant, cannot bear in silence 0
ny Insult to my Lord and my Saviour" :
frederick the Great leaped to his feet, and
g put cut his hand. and he said: "Happy =
iethen! Forgive me, forgive me!' |
On, there are many being scoffed ut for
leir religion, and thank God there are
AMY men rs brave as Ziethen! Go to
eaven yourself, o employer! Take all
our people with you. Soon you will be
trough buying and selling, and through
It'll manufacturing and building, and
cd will ask you: Where are ali those
eopie over whom you had so great in
nence? Are they here? Will they be
are? o shipowners, into what harbor
III your crew sail? Oh, you merchant
'ocers, are those young men that n
lder your care are providing food for
. bodies and families of men to 20
arved forever? Oh, you manufnc.
rers, with so many wheels flying and
many bands pulling aud so many new
tterns turned out and 50 many goods
irped, are the spinners, are tho carmen.
Fl the draymen, are the statesmen, are the
itchers of your establishments working
e everything but their own salvation?
IN 1t be that, having those people under
ur care i've, ten, twenty years, you have
tue 70 everlasting impression for good on
cir immortal souls? God turn us all back
IN such seliishness and teach us to live A..
others and not for ourselves. Christ -
S US tina example Of Sacrifice and so do
my Of HIS disciples. -
)ne summer in California gentleman r
10 had just removed from the Sandwich T.
ands told me this incident: You know G..
1t one OF the Sandwich Islands IS devoted :
lepcrs. People getting sick Of the lep- n
y on the other Islands are sent to tho | III
} or lepcrs. They never come off They | Sa,
III different Stages OF disease, but all | -
o die on that island die Of lcprosy. fn
IN ono of TIE islands there was n nbv- rs,
IAN who always wore his hand gloveI. =
it was often discussed why he ALWAYS
glove on that hand under all circum-
noes. One day he came to the authorI-
!, and he withdrew his glove. and he 90
TO the officers Of the law: s'You see on do
hand spot of the leprosy and that T