The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-05-25

might OHenu LHelr WOuesty III Hull
toned their names-these men have
built reading rooms, libraries, concert
halls. afforded croquet lawns, cricket
grounds, gymnaslums, choral societies
for their employees, and they have not
merely paid the wages on Saturday
night, but through the contentment
and the thrift and the good morals OF
their employees they are paying wages
from generation to generation forever.
Again, | counsel all employers to
look well after the physical health OF
their subordinates. Do not put on
them any unnecessary fatigue. l never
could understand why the drivers on
our city cars must stand all day when
they might just as well sit down ana
drive. 1t seems to me most unright-
eous 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 custom
ers These people have aches and an
noyances and WEAKNESS enough with
out putting upon them additional
fatigue. Unless these female clerks
must go up and down on the business
OF the store, let them sit down.
The Duty OF Employers.
But, above all, | charge you, o en-
ployers, that you look after the moral
AMI spiritual welfare of your employees.
First, know where they spend their
evenings. That decides everything.
You dc not want around your money
drawer a young man who went last
night to see Jack Sheppard" 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
society of refined women or in musical
or artistic circles or in literary i'm
provement is the young man for your
store.
One of my earliest remembrance is
of old Arthur Tappan. There were
many differences of opinion about his
politics, but no one who ever knew
Arthur Tappan, and knew him well,
doubted his being an earnest Chris
tian. In his store in New York he had
a room where every morning he called
his employees together, and he prayed
with them, read the Scriptures to them,
sang with them, and then they entered
on the duties of the day. On Monday
morning the exercises differed, and he
gathered the young men together and
asked them where they had attended
church, what had been their Sabbath
experiences and what had been the
sermon. Samuel Budget had the larg-
est business in the west of England.
He had in a room of his warehouse
place pleasantly furnished with COM
Portable seats and Fletcher's Family
Devotions" and Wesleyan hymnbooks,
and he gathered his employees together
every morning and, having sung, they
knelt down and prayed side by side
the employer and the employees. Do
you wonder at that mans success and
that, though 80 years before he had
been a partner in a small retail shop
in a small village, at his death he be-
queathed many millions God can
trust such a man as that with plenty
Of money.
Present Surroundings.
Sir Titus Salt had wealth which was
beyond computation, and at Saltaire,
England, he had a church and chapel
built and supported by himself-the
church for those who preferred the
Episcopal service, and the chapel for
those who preferred the Methodist SER
vice. At the opening of one Of his
factories he gave a great dinner, and
there were $500 people present. and
in his after dinner speech he said to
these people gathered: Il cannot look
around me and see this vast assembl-
age of friends and work people with
out being moved. l feel greatly hon
ored by the presence of the nobleman
at my side, and l am especially de-
lighted at the presence OF my work
people | hope to draw around me a
population that will enjoy the beauties
of this neighborhood-a population OF
we'll paid, contented, happy opera
tives. | have given instructions to my
architects that nothing is to be spared
to render the dwellings Of the opera
tives a pattern to the country, and If
my life is spared by divine Providence
hope to see contentment, satisfac-
ton and happiness around me-"
That is Christian character demon
strated. There are others in this coun-
try and in other lands on a smaller
scale doing their best for their en-
ployes. They have not forgotten their
own early struggles. They remember
how they were discouraged, how hun
gry they were and how cold and how
tried they were, and though they may
be 60 or 70 years of age, they know
lust how a boy feels between 10 and
20 and how a young man feels be-
tween 20 and 80. They have not for
gotten it. Those wealthy employers
were not originally let down out OF
heaven with pulleys of silk in wicker
basket satin lined, famed by cherubic
wings. They started in toughest
cradle. on whose rocker misfortune put
her violent foot and tipped them into
the cold world. Those old men are