Milford chronicle., 1902-09-19

IN circulation To-Day IS as nothing when
compared to the billions upon billions
of dollars worth of business done in
America every year. was once told
by a keen, shrewd business man that
at least 9S per cent of all business is
done upon trust-upon the promise to
pay or to do.
Now, if the capitalist cannot trust
the laborer; if he feels that at any time
walking delegate might come into his
establishment and command his men
to cease work on account of some IN
reasonable demand, what does he do?
why, he naturally and wisely solilo-
quizes: Il cannot trust the labor mar
ket. If should invest my money in
plant, my men may 20 out on
strike. Then I will be left high and
dry with my property upon my hands,
like a horse kept in the stable eating
his head off, l will not risk my $780,
600. l will buy government bonds or
real estate first mortgages and take
life easy" What is the result? Why.
this rich man builds no factory, as he
would have done, and masons. carpen-
tiers, gas filters and the plumbers lose
the contracts they would have had up
on that building, and a great number
Of men and women who might have
worked there 90 without steady en-
| ployment. Then the commercial tray
! elers and the merchants who would
have been able to sell goods of that
] fnpfnTW cannot coll khov,, honurrcn ~
goods are not made. and the people
who might have worked in those fac
tories have earned no money with
which to buy. Such evils are often a
| direct result of that capitalist refusing
to build that one factory because of his
| distrust of labor 1t is a wrong dis
| trust and arises from plumbers and
lack of sympathy on both sides. All
these evils accrue from the fact that
neither the capitalist nor the laborine
| man will practice the Golden Rule and
love his neighbor as himself.
The Dove of Peace.
As a student of social economies !
have carefully studied the prevailing
conditions in Chicago during the years
in which l have lived in the Queen
City Of the West During the last five
years scores Of manufacturers have
left our city and have transplanted
their factories into the little towns fan
away from the labor centers because
they could not trust the laboring
classes.
Thus the white winged dove of peace
today brings a practical gospel mes
sage to the capitalist and the labOrel
alike. She brings the same kind o.
practical help as the falcon of chivalri,
times did to his master. This knight
being very thirsty, would have DRUM
from a poisoned well. Again and again
when his master lifted the cup filleC
with the deadly water to his lips tn
powerful wing of the falcon smote j
out of his hand. At last the soldie
examined the brook and found it fillet
with the waters of death. So the whit
wing of the gospel dove of peace woul,
knock the chalice of selfish sin fror
the white hand Of the capitalist as we
as from the horny hand of toll.
Rich men, are you ready to have tn
words of my text translated an
brought home to your hearts? Are 70
ready to cease lifting up the golde
chalice of selfish sin? Are you read
to be changed so that your lives ma
become a blessing, like those Of Pete
Cooper and William L. Dodge an
Baron Hirsch and MontefiOre? If 70
are, then you will look upon your MOI
ey as a gift from God for the helpin
of mankind. One of our president
defined public office as a public trus
Your possessions you should regard q
a sacred trust, held not for your Ow
qualification or indulgence. but for til
glory of God and the benefit of hi
manity. If you are ready for the lie
9 sons of the text, then you are ready
: say: "Here is my money which &C
$ has given to me. BY this money I ca
e give many men employment and pa
: them sufficient wages whereby the
] can build comfortable homes. ca
surround them with books and instr
ments of music. l can make it poss
t bic for them, with the advantages
f shall give them, to develop their DO,
d and girls into good men and good woI
g en-" Capitalists, are you ready to {
5. that? Workers, are you ready to fe
/ that you can never be true to your Ell
II ployers and give to them the best ser
Y ice unless you do all in your power
it develop your physical, mental and sp
i itual lives? Are you ready to say,
o will work and be true to my earth
,e employer because l am ready to wO
S and be true to my Heavenly KingY
It you are both equally ready to sure
ID der your lives to the influence of t
IS Golden Rule, then the words of n
y text will have accomplished their m
50 sion upon earth. Then the dark. wit