The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-25
REV. ]. ". WADMAN


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The Carpenter 5 Son had 70 contend
with this social condition for with the
spread of the sovereignty of Rome, had
also spread her social life and indus
trial habits. In three or four particu.
lars the Christ succeeded in organizing
new social life and may be thus re,
garded as the world 5 greatest indus
trial reformer. In the first place He
enunciated the great principle of I cor
rect social science in that brief sentence
which fell from His lips as He stood
on the hillside overlooking the lake and
addressed a congregation of the work.
ing people, namely tOur Father which
art in heaven. Here you have the
seed-thought which gave birth to Eng
land s Magma Charta proclaimed by
John Lakeland on the meadow at Gun
nymede, the Declaration of Religious
Rights secured by Martin Luther as
he stood before the Council at Worms
and exclaimed, 'eHere I stand. 1 can
do no other, God helping me- and
the proclamation of American liberty
when an old bell in tower of Inde-
pendenee Hall in the city of brotherly
love rang out the glad sentence: "AH
men are created equal and with Ger.
tain inalienable rights
"Down with wealth, - Down with
aristocraey,'' 'sDown with culture -
we sometimes hear The Son of the
Carpenters cry was cup with the
poor, - cup with the ignorant. )" cup
with the people, He was social
leveler-up.
Moreover, being Himself handi-
craftsman, He dignifed labor and
crowned the mechanic with glory and
honor. We speak of Him as king and
art pictures Him with halo of light
eneireling His brow. But if He be a
king, then carpenters work bench is
His throne and a leather apron His
royal robe.
On one occasion He stated that The
laborer IS worthy of His hire . That
was new word in the vocabulary of
men. They had never heard of an honest
wage. The slaves toiled and lived on
rations. Egyptian masons built the
huge pyramids and received in return
daily allowances of onions and lentils
doled out to them in stinted manner
by luna whose masters had never con-
ceived of an honest wage. Our Gus
tom of tipping hotel boys and table
walters IS a relic of barbarism. They
should be paid an honest wage. The
public ought not to be squeezed
It takes time for social reform.
"The mills of God grind slowly Age
u-buttressed wrongs are not corrected
in day. Only few hundred years
ago carpenters in England received but
three-penee a day. \ hundred years
later. their hours were from 5 a. m
to 1880 p. M, and a workman was OBJ
Gged to serve notice six months in
advance If DESTROYS of changing mas
ters. Weavers received nine-penee in
''But the heart of the toiler has
throbbings that stir not the bosom of
kings. . And these throbbiugs began
to stir more and more until we come
on down to the history of strikes and
hammered professions. Do you deery
them? Not entirely for why should not
the millions of hand-toilers give express
sion to their desire for an improvement
in social condition7 Labor strikes are
only possible in countries where the
spirit and teaching of the Carpenter S
of a labor-strike in India, or Egypt,
or China2 Compare the coal system
of India with the 8" Rights of Equality
IN Christian America. People are some
times heard to complain of the growth
in the number of our millionaires. But
millionaires do not grow so rapidly in
any other country as in America be-
cause of our more excellent opportuni-
ties within the reach of every man for
the accumulation of competence and
wealth. Many of our richer people
were once poor or the sons of poor
men, even of poor despised mission
aries, as we have them here in Hawaii.
But none the less dishonorable on that
account. 1t is folly for any poor me
ehanie today to deery wealth because
he may be wealthy himself some day,
live in a palace and ride in an autcmo-
bile.
And yet the laboring man is not yet
fully satisfied nor is the relation be-
tween the employer and employee salts,
factorily wholly and amicably adjusted.
nor are the Labor Unions "pau" with
their strikes.
We are ready then to ask wherein
lies the remedy and what are the forces
needed to complete the work of adjust