Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1902-09-20
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Va wan Lhs pAOpSiAg hi'Oi NY hohho,
like horse kept I'm the stable eating
his head off, | will not risk my $780,
900. ! 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 be
would have done, and masons. carpen-
ters, gas filters and the plumbers lose
the contracts they would have had up
on that building. ana great number
Of men and women who might have
worked there 20 without steady en-
| ployment. Then the commercial trav-
elers and the merchants who would
have been able TO sell goods Of that
factory cannot sell them because the
goods are not made, and the people
who might haye 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 IL a wrong dis
trust and arlSes from blundcrs and
lack Of sympathy on both sides. All
these evils accrue from the fact that
neither the capitalist nor the laboring
man will practice the Golden Rule and
love his neighbor as himself.
The Dove of Peace.
AS a student OF social economies I
have carefully studied the prevailing
conditions In Chicago during the years
In which | 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 FAR
away from the labor centers because
they could not trust the labor.ng
classes.
Thus the white winged dove CT peace
tOday brings prnf teal gospel mes
sage to the capitalist ana the laborer
alike She brings tho same kind Of
practical help rs the falcon Of chivalric
times did to his master. This knight,
being very thirsty. would have drunk
from poisoned we'll. Again and again
when his master lifted the cup filed
with the deadly water 10 his lips the
powerful wing OF the falcon smote it
out OF his hand. At last the soldier
examined the brook and found II filed
with the waters Of death. So the white
wing OF the gospel dove Of peace would
knock the chalice of selfish sin from
the white hand OF the capitalist as well
as from the horny hand Of toll.
Rich men. are you ready oshaye the
words of my text translated and
brought home TO your hearts? Are you
ready to cease lifting up the golden
chalice OF selfish sin? Are you ready
to be changed so that your lives may
become blessing. like those OF Peter
Cooper and William T. Dodge and
Baron Hirsch and Monieforel If you !.
are, then you will look upon your mon
ey as a gift from God Tor the helping
Of mankind. One CT our presidents
defined public Office as a public trust.
Your possessions you should regard as
a sacred trust, held not for your own
qualification or Indulgence. but for the
glory OF God and the benefit OF hu-
If you are ready for the les
sons OF the text, then you are ready TO
say: Here is my money which God
has given to me. BY this money can
give many men employment and pay
them sufficient wages whereby they
,an build comfortable homes. can
surround them with books and instru-
ments OF music. | can make 1t posi-
Die for them, with the advantages |
shall give them. to develop their boys
md girls into good men and good wom-
m" Capitalists. are you ready to do
hat? Workers. are you ready to feel
hat you can never be true to your en-
,loyers and give to them the best serv-
ce unless you do all In your power to
levelop your physical. mental and splr-~
tual lives? Are you ready to say, II
will work and be true to my earthly
Employer because am ready to work
md be true to my Heavenly KlngT II
'ou are both equally ready to surren-
Ter your lives to the influence Of the
iolden Rule, then the words Of my
ext will have accomplished their mis-
ion upon earth. Then the dark, wide,
awning, fathomless gulf between the
mployers and employees shall be
ridged over by the straight beam Of
be cross. Then this land shall see It's
reatest era Of temporal and spiritual
rosperity. Then the millennium shall
c ushered In. Then the capitalist and
be aborer shall clasp hands as Chris
an brothers.
[Copyrioht. 1902 bv Louis Klopsch.l