Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1908-06-27

A New YORK newspaper writes CT employers these days a the best
charity agents known. The army of unemployed over the country and
the corresponding distress among the families of those affected make
the remark peculiarly apt
The figure used BY GU contemporary is aimed especially at corpora
tons. The writer calls attention to the expedients to which large CON
Germs Of all sections are resorting IN order not to reduce wages or to
keep their employees at work. This tribute is not undeseryed, either.
The great railroad corporations, together with the great industrial con-
arc quite apparently tugging and twisting with conditions TO
avoid the necessity OF spreading further the already widespread distress.
In days of prosperity the man who asks for a crumb at the back
door is a famInar-a too famiiar--fgure. Say work" to him and he
turns with disgust or nees in dismay. Now, while the familiar mendi-
cant is still abroad in the land, the man who begs work is the domi-
uant supplcant In answer to a simple want advertisement in a
Brooklyn paper announcing that a firm of that city desired a driver. over
700 men applied for the job. Seven hunded of the-abh-bodied, ener-
Those men recognized the value of an opportunity to work. To them the
man with work to give them was good angel The firm or corpora
ton enabling them to provide for their wives and children by buying
their labor we're the best sort of charity organizations.
If the passing Business depression carries with it a moralthat moral
that he who has work to do will value it most when he has it not. The
hosts who have tasted the bitterness of enforced idleness will have a
greater respect for employment when prosperity is again in the saddle
and they are back at work than they ever had. Their mental and sent-
mental attitude toward employers will be different. They will consider
the great corporation, employing its thousands, IS a benefactor, an inst-
tuition which, with all It's sins, is not altogether a curse to mankind. The
individuals who have put their thought and fortunes into such IN enter
prise, taking the chance of losing in the venture all they have, have
not only benefited their own purposes when success crowns their under
takngs, but they have provided means for the support Of hundreds of
homes Withdraw the big corporations and think of the hardships that
aus tbetah those whose mouths are fed by employment those corpora
tons furnished. What would become of these countless dependent fami-
aes?
But this is no brief for the Corporations, great Or little. While
human instincts, doubtless, have much to do with their managers e.
forts to keep all hands at work and to increase steadily the number Of
their employees, economic considerations are probably operating also. The
FEWER the unemployed the more prosperous sill be business. The sooner
an TN unemployed IN employment, the sooner will the vanished pros
perity return. And, so, al an aid 10 their own progress and a stimulus
TO general material development, they follow a policy which is both wis
dom and kindness.
the big employers re doing their best to take care of those out of woek
and to restore IS rapidly as possible the prosperity which is sc generals
desired. This is enough to make nearly everybody for the present 10.
give them their sins of the past and to cheer them on in a nos com
mendable task.-Lomsvine courler-Journal.