The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-12-10
FOR EARLY CLOSING.
Able Plea For the Reform By
the Dean of st. Marks.
ALL CLASSES
STRONG ARGUMENT ON THE
SIDE OF THE CLERKS.

Rev. J. B. Eddie, dt Of St Marks
cathedral. hit upon a IA Dy theme for
his discourse last evening, and was re-
warded by an unusually large and at
tentive congregation. His subject was:
THE LabOrer's Right 70 His Rest, In
Relation to Early Closing"
Dean Eddie took for the basis of his
remarks the fourth commandment of
the gospel. 1.-THE words Of the com
manGment." said the speaker, refer
primarily to Sunday rest. But if the
fourth commandment is not an arbi-
trary rule, but a moral law. il has a
wider application than to one particu-
lar day in the week; and the spirit of
the commandment, as a moral law, re-
Qulres that the man-servant and the
maId-servant be given seasonabIe, rea-
sonable times of relaxation and rest In
TINS connection il has its bearing on the
early closing movement now in progress
IN this community.
We believe in this movement con-
unued the speaker, because we believe
1T to be a forward movement. and are
sIad to assist in it. We believe in it
because we believe it to be a practical
movement; because we believe the sue
cess of the movement will be OF mutual
Dnent to employers, employees and the
pubic generally No end of mischief
has been wrought by strikes, with their
enforced idleness, destruction of prop
erty and shedding Of blood, because
employers and employees could not see
that their interests were Identical Cap
ital and labor are the Siamese twins
OF all production, and of all legitimate
business, and can never be separated
without causing the death of both"
Continuing, Dean Eddie gave four
reasons why, in his judgment. early
closing should become permanent First
as to economy of money. On this point
the cost of heating and lighting a large
mercantile establishment for extra
hours at night was emphasized. The
second point was the economy Of time.
said the speaker: with shorter hours,
both the merchant and the clerk can
do better work and render a better ser
vice to the public A man is not cap
able Of perpetual motion. The way to
get the best work, at the same time the
most work. out of q man is TO exact Of
him reasonable hours of service. The
way that men are run like machines
until they can run no longer, and then
are cast aside to make way for some
one else is a blot on nineteenth century
civilization. our prOfessed democracy,
our humanity"
On the third point, Dean Eddie ar
gued that the success of the early clos
ing movement would make of clerks
and merchants better men. rs a man
better he asked, by having all the
manhood and self-respect crushed out
OF him? BY being kept down and kept
ignorant or by being respected and
made to respect his family?"
After exploding the idea that with
early closing the young men would
spend their time in the saloons and
other resorts, Dean Eddie argued that
early closing was in the interest OF mo-
rality and culture; in the interest Of
the family life; in the 7 terest of bust
ness, and in the interest Of the COM
munity The argument throughout was
clear and reasonable, and made deep
impression upon all who heard the dis
course.