Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-06-14

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style OF tariff set your business back hope
| lessly and forever. You must take all that
into consideration and then pay what Ia
| reasonable.
Do not be too ready to cut down wages.
| As far as possible, pay all, and pay prompt
on this subject. Malachi, II will be swift
witness against all sorcerers and against
all adulterers and against those who op-
pose the hireling in his wages" Leviticus,
Thou shalt not keep the wages OF the hire
ling all night unto the morning." Colos-
SLAMS, Masters, give unto your servants
| that which is just and equal, knowing that
ye also have Master in heaven" So you
see 1t is not a question between you and
your employe SO much as it is u question
between you and God.
Do not say to your employees, "Now, II
when you know they cannot get another.
As far as possible, oace year visit ut their
homes your clerks and your workmen.
That is the only way you can become ac-
quainted with their wants.
You will by such process find out that
there is q blind parent or a sick sister be-
ing supported. You will find some of your
young men in rooms without any fire in
winter and in summer sweltering in Ill
ventilated apartments. You will find much
depends on the wages you pay or with
hold.
MOREOVER, II IS your uuLy uS ctupIOycE, MS
far ms possible, to mold the welfare Of the
employe. You ought to advise him about
investments, about life insurance, about
savings banks. You ought to give him the
benefit of your experience.
There are hundreds and thousands Of
employers, I amyglad TO say, who are set
tling in the very best possible way the des.
tiny of their employees. Such mon as Mar
shall Of Leeds, Lister Of Bradford, Akroyd
of Halifax and men 80 near at home 1t
might offend their modesty il mentioned
their names-these men have built reading
rooms, libraries, concert halls, afforded
croquet lawns, cricket grounds, gymna-
and they have not merely paid the wages
on Saturday night, but through the con-
tentment and the thrift and the good
morals OF their employees they are paying
wages from generation to generation for
ever.
Again, I counsel all emplo yers to look
we'll after the physical health of their sub.
ordinates. Do not put on them any un-
necessary fatigue. I never could under
stand why the drivers on our city cars
must stand all day when they might just
as we'll sit down and drive.
1t seems to me most unrighteous that so
many of the female clerks in our stores
should be compelled to stand all day and
through those hours when there are but
few or no customers. These people have
aches and annoyances and WEAKNESS
enough without putting upon them addi-
tional fatigue. Unless these female clerks
must 60 up and down on the business OF
the store, let them sit down.
But above all 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 q young man
xuho ant Ioet 3rht IN NIB hnr
pardw A man that comes into the store
In the morning CHASTITY 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 the business hours,
that is all have to ask" God has made
you that mans guardian. I 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. SO for from
being cheered on the road to heaven some
of you are caricatured, and 1t is hard
thing for you to keep your lChristian integ-
rity In that store or factory where there
are so many hostile to religion. Ziethen,
grave general under Frederick the
Great was skeptic. One day Ziethen,
the venerable, white haired general, asked
to be excused from military duty that
he might attend the holy sacrament.
He was excused. A few days after
Ziethen was dining with the king and
Frederick the Great in a jocose way
said, swell, Ziethen, how did that sacra-
ment Of last Friday digestp" The venera-
BILE old warrior arose and said: "For your
majesty have risked my life many time
on the battlefield, and for your majesty
would be willing any time to die; but you
do wrong when you insult the Christian
religion. You will forgive me If 1, your
old military servant, cannot bear In silence
any insult to my Lord and my Saviour"
Frederick the Great leaped to his feet, and
he put cut his hand, and he said: Happy
Ziethen! Forgive me, forgive mel"
on, there are many being scoffed at for
many men as brave as Ziethen! Go to
heaven yourself o employer Take all
your people with you. Soon you will be
through buying and selling, and through
with manufacturing and building, and
God will ask you: "Where are all those
fiuence2 Are they here2 Will they be
here?" 0 shipowners, into what harbor
will your crew sail9 Oh, you merchant
grocers, are those young men that
under your care are providing food for
the bodies and families OF men to go
starved forever? Oh, you manufac-
turers, with SO many wheels flying and
so many bands pulling and SO many new
patterns turned out and 80 many goods
shipped, are the spinners, are the carmen,
are the.draymen, are the statesmen, are the
watchers OF your establishments working
out everything but their own salvation?
Can 1t be that, having those people under
your care FIVE, ten, twenty years, you have
made 20 everlasting impression for good on
their immortal souls? God turn US all back
from such sel1shness and teach US to live
for others and not for ourselves. Christ
sets US the example Qt sacrifice, and SO do
many q His diselples. ~ t,s~--ssxs~
One summer in California gentleman
who had just removed from the Sandwich
Islands told me this incident: You know
that one Of the Sandwich Islands is devoted
to lepers. People getting sick OF the lep-
rosy on the other islands are sent to the
isle of lepers They never come off. They
are in different stages OF disease, but all
who. die on that island die OF leprosy.
On one Of the islands there was q ply