Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1901-06-12
LABOR'S LONG WAN.
Arp Wants to Know When the Con-
fiict viii End.
Ills SYMPATHY FOR THE TOILtgS.
IL is Sad to Sec the Children i'm the
Factories Wearing Their Lives
Away and Longing for Rest,

LABOR and Capital. When will the
long protracted struggle CEASE. Away
Dack IN history there was a war that
TASTED thirty years, but this war has
ldSleu longer than that and seems to
grow more bitter as the years roll on.
In the good old times iC did not affect
the south but like a pestilencc il
spread and there seems to be no rene
dy. All OF the women-mCst all the
men. outside of the capitalis;s-kava
heretofore sympathized with the to i
ers In their demands for less work and
better pay. They have bitterly de-
hounced the heartless MANAGERS who
would wear out the life OF a child be-
fore 1t gets Grown-who would keep
them Gagged in factories from ca ly
morn till lamplight, with not an Eou1
lor recreation. No May day. No Play
day, no ball game, nor marbles. mr.
iishing, nor frolic Of any kind for tno
boys; no hunting wild flowers or black
berries for the girls. no youthful pleas
ures. no recess. no Saturday; bat from
year to year it's
worll-work in the dull Dc
cember light.
And work-woriI-work when the
weather is warm and blight"
How sad It is to see them toll as If
in treadmill. and to hear them sigh
as they glance from the windows O
their daily prison, and with longing
eyes. whisper
oh! but to breathe the breath OF the
woods and flowers sweet.
With the sky above my head and the
grass beneath my feet"
And this is sad pathetic, and but for
heartless legislation and legislators.
would have long since been RENE ed
1t is the good side Of human nature
that arouses sympathy FOR the poor.
and Weigh Hunt never wrote sweeter
line than that of Abau Ben Adhcia'
plea for entrance into Paradise:
Write me as one who loves his fellow
man"
In Illuminating about the wants %
the poor have often thought that the
greatest want and the best boon 10
toiler was home. Home-one OF the
sweetest words in any language Its
best definition is in the heart. fer Ian
guage fails to express it. Indeed there
are some languages that have no word
for it-no synonym. The French has
none and substitutes only an abode o.
dwelling place. The best definition is
found in the old Sarskirt. the sacred
dialect Of the Eindoos and Pc:S!anS.
The word is KShema and means a PEI
manent place of rest and security.
Would that all the poor. all the tolers.
all the women and children in the land
had that-a permanent abode-a place
of rest and security. NO landlord TO
call for rCnts-no expiring lease, no un-
certain title: but home where the
good wife can plant her own vines and
adorn her own yard with flowers ami
feel that they are hers and her Chi.
dren's. Why didn't Mr.. Carnegie think
of this and give homes to the poor.
instead OF books. Fifty millions OF del
lars would have given comfortable
homes to one hundred thousand poor
families-and given a permanent place
of rest and security to at least half
million of the toilers. The time was
when a Methodist preacher was not en-
titled to n home no more than a Ro-
man Cathoic priest was to wife. He
must abide for year in any house
that was cheap and vacant Ee must BE-
the eXemplar of humanity and unset
wos born in manger and mis- soitcs.
bed was hay. But there is some more
scripture that demands the best OF ev-
crything for the priesthood, and that
says: Touch not My arointed. and do
Ny prophets no harm \ better c.W-
liZation now provides 4 good comfor-
table parsonage in almost every town
and village and I am Giai Of it, not 50
much for sympathy for the preacher.
but for his good long suffering and
patient Wife and hec growing children
Woman loves her home ana loves 10
adorn il with fruits and fowers When
the MethCdists get Strong enough to
build a parsonage they should not sep
at the finishing OF the house but have
permanent committee OF ladies' TO
plant vines and roses and make gravel
walks. and establish garden WITH
such things that do not pass away and
perish with the year Plant fruit trees.
make an asparagus bed and don't for
get the Strawberries and raspDcrries,
and here and there plant some OF the
old time garden herbs, such as sage and
balm and parsley and calaMLs for n
sweet breath and mint for the chill
drens eolic. Fix the place up for a
home and when the good wife leaves it.
OF course. she will leave it clean and
leave it with regret, and her successor
will be happy and talk about her sue
cessor will be happy and talk about her
TO the neighbors. If was bishop
would allude to this at the general con-
ference, and lay much stress en- what
John Wesley said, that Cleanliness
was next to Goodness"
This is not in the Bible. bit might