The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-05-18
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
"THE GOLDEN RULE" SUBJECT oFREH. E.W. STONES SERMON.

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 At the Grand avenue Baptist church yesterday morning the pastor, the Rev. E. ". Stone. preached to a large con- gregatIon on "The Golden Rule" In the application to industrial questions MT. Stone said that the live question of these days was the industrial and business relations between man and man.
 ''The principle Of the world is to get out of your employer, or employe the most that is possible" he said.
 q do not know that this principle, or spirit. is any stronger than it has been, but it is certainly very strong. In the very presence of the unspeakable sorrow of death men to-day are fighting their battle for wages and hours, for rights and privileges. While people are on the way to the graveyard to lay their dead oIIt of their sight, their hearts are wounded afresh by unseemly squabples over dollars and hours. It does seem to me as if there at least we might for a. time get away from such conflict But in this strenuous age men impelling their cause care little for the feelings Of their brothers in any condition or trial. They are dead to all except their deter imitation to win in the fight.
 "On the battlefields of the world ene- mics. have uncovered while they have watched their antagonists die. In the presence of death the principles. or pas sions that arrayed them against each other were lost sight of. But New Ha- ven has seen selfish squabbles in the in- dustrial war, on the way to and at the very mouth of the grave. It does seem to me as if another time and place or another and saner method of warfare could be found.
 ''For aught I know the claims of the men. who are the aggressors in this fight may be just-these points I am not discussing. The right of men to organ ize, or even to control the sale of their kind of labor Tn the market, l am not denying. What am saying is that even allowing all of these things some other field or method for fighting out the question: other than in the presence of torn and bleeding hearts, might be found. But 1t only. illustrates the length to which the selfish spirit of the world goes. It is death to all sentiment. It has lost all respect for God, life, death even human experience. It sees nothing but is selfish desire and it stopped at nothing but the using of it.
 s.In these industrial conflicts that are in my Judgment pressaging great in- dustrial depression, we sometimes won- der whether men are human or not. We may or may not accept Darwin's theory of the evolution of man from the lower creatures but in the face of the conflicts of the day we cannot escape the con- clusion that somehow great deal of the lower brute nature has come to men.
 'I believe that men have a right to organize and sell their wages to every best advantage. think employers should be willing to recognize such a right as belonging to their employe. l think employers should take into con- sideration the circumstances and con- ditions of their employers and remem- ber that no ironclad rule is applicable to any community, or every case even in a community. If this were so and the golden rule regulated the relations of each, there would not be in this city or country a labor problem twenty -four hours Each would recognize the rights Of each and each, would see something else besides his own selfish desire"
 The Jefferson & Go. of Grand avenue report business very good in the paint ing and paper hanging line. The season began in March and is holding on un- usually well. On Saturday the com- pany completed the painting of the Mo- n1auguin at Cosey Beach. The exterior of the building has been handsomely re- painted and presents fine appearance. The company to-day will begin painting the house of John H. Linsley on Quin nipiac avenue. They are also painting the house of Mrs. George M. Baldwin on the same avenue. the residences of Mrs. McDermott, and Mrs. Woolhouse on Lenox street, and Daniel Coemans touse4on Atwater street. The New Home council, No. 10, Brotherhood of Relief, is getting along finely and now has seventy-one nlem- bers, the limit to be a membership of seventy-five.. The dues are fifty cents per month and the side benefits are $1O| per week for ten weeks. B. w. Arnold l
  treasurer. The new council is starting off on an excellent basis and as yet there has been no payments made for sick benefits, no call having been made upon the society.
 The entertainment that is being ar ranged by the social committee of the Y. P. S. c. E. to be given in the Grand avenue Baptist church on Wednesday evening next promises to be @of, a su- perior order, There will be a carefully arranged programme of literary and musical exercises, arranged under the direction of the president, A. J. Lane, Miss N. Porter, Mrs. Frederivk Seibert and MT. and Mrs. H. V. Cantry. This entertainment promises to prove great success. s.sTa
 The warm weather is having the eff feet to increase the sale of ice and the prospect is good for a fine trade. In many places the crop secured in the winter, was short. but it is believed the Fair Haven dealers will have a suffi- cient supply for the seasons business. Edward B. Rowe of Clifton street says ha ,,,;IJ e,,hioiap+ to oarYy throJ1ph |