The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-05-26
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ELOQUENT " 49,
hui preach more especially to
employers as such, although what 1
have to say will be appropriate to both
employers and employees.
The behavior of a multitude of la
borers toward their employers during
the last three months may have in
duced some employers to neglect the
real Christian duties that they owe to
those whom they employ. Therefore
want to say to you whom l 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 someone 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 lssses, the disappointments of 9TH
ers; thirdly, do not mind the fact that
your vast wealth implies the poverty
OF a great many people," Now, there
is not a man here who would consent
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 men
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 what
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 a man
into a service whether he will or not,
and either of those ideas is despicable.
When any employer allows a laborer
to say what he must do or have his
business ruined and the employer
submits to it, he does every business
a i'll 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 bug coalnor pay
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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-
her that you take all the risks and the
employe takes lone or scarcely any.
You are to remember that there may
ha rpunrGnc in fnrfrrnn and hot cnmp
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 a great deal of
Bible teaching onrthis subject. Malachi:
81 will be a swift witness against all
sorcerers and against all adulterers
and against those who oppose the hire
ling in his wages" LevitiGus: "Thot !
shalt not keep the wages 81 Inc hlreling
all night unto the morning" Colos-
SLAMS; Masters, give unto your serv-
nus tT Which is just and equal,
X lowing that We also have a Master
Heaven" So you see it is not a
'stion between you and your en-
We so much as it is a question be- |
n you and God.
not say to your employees: "Now,
don'tlike this place get another"
YOU know they cannot get an
AS far as possible, once a year
their homes your clerks and
rkmen. That is the only way
become acquainted with their
on will by such process find
here is a blind parent or a
being supported. You will
your young men in rooms
fire in winter, and in sum
9 in ~ill-ventilated apart
will find out how much
wages you pay or with
YOUR duty as employer,
to mold the welfare
You ought to advise
pents, about life in
'ings banks. You
he benefit of your
are hundreds and
ars, | am glad to
in the very best
} ny of their en-
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