The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-28

HANaE1AE AA1A HABHH EAA1Ai4 Dl AIIAEhHEA and labor should prosper also.
 Now" answers some capitalist, you are advocating q lot of high sounding nonsense. You are practically saying that every capitalist should become philanthropist. He should turn his busi- ness into a cooperative concern and let his employees share as much as possible In his wealth. That does not go Tn bus mess. Religion and business. like oil and water. do not mix. Business is not run upon the principle of the Golden Rule but upon the law of supply and demand. We hire where we can hire the cheapest so We can manufacture the cheapest We sell where we can sell the dearest. We make all the money we can. Then. if We want to be philanthropists and not business men, we give away as much as We please"
 Mix Gospel With Business.
 My capitalistie friend. your statements are wrong. The gospel and business do financially mix we'll The capitalist who practices the Golden Rule in business and lets his employees share in his prosperity will win out" every time. What was the history of George W. Childs? There never was a man who received happier financial results from practlcinR the Golden Rule than he did When MT Childs, young man, took hold of the Philadelphia Ledger. 1t was A financial failure. All employees of that concern were placed upon the lowest possible wages. The trusted men were desertinr at every possible chance and finding other places. What did George ". Chflds dor He gathered his new emploves about him and practically said: Men. cannot pay you much in the beginning. but l promise you one thing-as I pros- per you shall prosper. Furthermore when any Of you become disabled by ad- vanclng years from work I will pension you Tor life, 80 that you can live in ease and support your children If you will De true to me I will be true to you. We shall go up together or go down together will consider the Ledger stan a big Iamily' and as far as possible I shall ma ma my future head men from those who are now working in the ranks"
 Dld the Golden Rule mean a failure m m George w. Chllds life? As soon as the new employees heard the ringing words of their chief they went to work with a will. The subscription list of the rhliadelphia Ledger doubled and trebled anu quadrupled Why? Because when George W. Childs prospered the en,nioves l KneW mat they would prosper also Be- cause Of their own prosperity ns well as ms they worked as they never worked Derore Those employees made thousands or dollars for themselves. They made millions upon millions of dollars for MT. Childs. The magnificent results from praeticing the Golden Rule in tho Phila- ueiphla Ledger can be duplicated in every other Dig business corporation fin any part of the world.
 But the trouble with most capitalists or the present day is that they refuse 10 do as MT. Childs did. They shirk their iholVldual responsibility As your moneys are collected into great trust or cor poration and you only hold a few shares you say you are not responsible for what the whole concern may do You are like the members of an execution squad who have been detailed to shoot a spy caught within the military lines You say no one individual is responsible for the exe- cution, because twenty-five bullets in- stead of one strike the doomed mans heart but every capitalist who has his money invested In a corporation where starvation salaries are being paid to it's employees Is responsible for the damage that his money helps to do. He Is re- sponsible if child labor is engaged in his factory. He Is responsible if men and women, on account of their indifference, go to their mental and physical and per haps spiritual doom. He Is his brothers 8 keeper in so far that he is bound to see that the man whose toll adds to his "NSA'N Aioo AaAA WdbNos
 Cause of Social UpheavaI.
 But the laboring classes as well as the capitalists have sinned and helped to cause the present social upheaval. The employe Is not any more a saint than his employer. They both at times seem to be tarred with the same black stick. Yet the average laboring man pretends to think that all the cause for the pres ent social upheaval Is to be laid at the rich mans door and not at his own. Tn his own blind egotism he seems to be almost as contented with himself and his actions as was the old Quaker, grum- bling against the peculiarities of the hu- man race, when he said to, his wife, All the world Is queer except me and thee, Mary, and thou art little queer"
 Do the laboring classes always make their employers interest their own inter- est? Oh, no. There are thousands and hundreds of thousands of them who show little, if any, sense of moral responsibil- ity. When engaging their services to a man. they do not for one instant stop to consider the money which that employer has invested in his plant. They do not stop to think of tho financial risk he is running, of the seven years of financial depression which may come to him when he may lave to run his works at a prac- tical dead loss. as when the seven years or famine came to Joseph in the land of Egypt. They do not seem to realize that when they shirlk their work they are stealing their employers money, for time means money.
 The different labor associations, like the bricklayers' union, the stone cut ters'. the carpenters and builders, the steam filters, and plumbers unions, the brotherhood of locomotive engineers of firement brakemen and conductors all have their benehcent mission They ought to benefit capital as well as labor. They ought to be the means of putting through the different state legislatures laws to prevent the employment of children. to limit the hours of labor and to prevent fragrant injustices against their members. But the work of the mod ern labor union does not stop there. It often goes to the capitalist and tries to dictate what men he shall or shall not employ. It goes to the capitalists and says: You must look upon every one