Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-03


stead of striking, he submitted his
grievances to the general government,
or to labor department, regulated
by law and having minister of labor
in the presidents cabinet? Would not
this be better way for the working
man, for the settlement of differences
between employer and employed?
Yes, labor should be represented in
the cabinet by an Intelligent laborer;
| not by a parlor farmer, nor by retir-
ed capitalist. The method you sug-
gest of settling strikes would be
decided improvement upon the pres
ent hap-hazard plan.
IS. Their blind feet drift in the
darkness, and no one is leading"
What kind of leaders do the toilers
need?
They need leaders with the white
purity of st. Francis and the iron
resolution of Cromwell, leaders
whose watchword shall be God and
the People!" Such men were Joseph
Mazzini and John Ruskin.
Ia. How can the Church best help
the brother to the ox?" How reach
him, lift Lin up?
| By studying the anxious problems
of economics and finding way of APP
plying the Golden Rule to industry.
Is. Ana workingwomen? Have we
SISTER to the ox?" How should she
| be reached, uplifted-her burden light
| ened?
Yes, we have 'sister to the OK"
| Men and women rise and fall togeth-
er. In general, the same means that
will lift and tighten mans burden will
alleviate woman's also.
16. Do churches and church work
ers neglect the working people? Do
they pay enough attention to factory.
centers and great industrial centers
and great industrial towns?
| No, churches do not give enough
attention to these matters. Indeed,
the burning question in each church
today should be the social problem.
The saving of mems souls is very
closely connected with the ameliora-
ton of their social and industrial
/ conditions. The church needs a new
baptism of the Holy Spirit, which is
the same as saying, Social Spirit.
|
Colonization for the Idle Millions.
(By Commander Booth-Tucker.)
= hc Wei lulS s,
sends a shudder thru the heart of any
thinking man. Is it possible that with
all the marvellous advances made by
science in every realm of thought and
| enterprise, we have not yet solved the
initial problem of socioculture-the
employment of the unemploy-
ed in a humane and remun-
erative manner The fact is there,
staring us in the face-idle millions
standing in the world market places,
where the throb of trade and hum OF
commerce constitute one ceaseless
whirl of activity and continual prog
ress.
See how door after door of oppor.
tunity has closed against the idle mil
lions, thru no fault of their own. The
avenues of remunerative work are
choked with busy swarm of toilers
who, like a heard of stampeded cattle
gore and trample each other to death
in the wild rush for the waters mol
of wealth, but of existance, even te
very life itself.
There is remedy--so simple, sc
natural, so feasible, that the amazins
point is that society has taken so Ions
about it's consideration and adoption
; Let these idle millions be planted upoI
the vast tracts of idle land by mean.
lof the enormous aggregation of idle
, capital, which can in these days be 81
! easily commanded for any given pur
i Ipose on which a nation may set it!
, heart, and the problem has beer
: solved. The fallacies that they will
not go. that they will not stay, tina
, they will not work, that they will no
{ pay, have been exploded by the lant
| colonies which we have already estab
lished in this country We have I'm
) questionably demonstrated that unde
proper management and suitable con
{ ditions. there is no more attractiv,
t and feasible form of philanthropy, an,
, none that will more surely repay tn
capital as well as toll expended on il
, Those who have visited the Salvation
Army colonies have been unanimou
: in their testimony as to the practibi
3 Iity of the plan of placing "the handles
! man on the manless land" as it ha
t been systematically expressed b
, one of our great writer's.
5 If we stretch out to the idle millions
the warm, loving hands, not of Chart
7 but of remunerative employment, i
: the establishment of homes of whic
: they shall be the happy owners, W
shall provide market for our con
. merce, new avenues of industry 70
> our city population, an ornament t
our nation and an object lesson t
: the world, by converting our idle mi
| H