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may suppose that sentimental reasons become a source of confusion, when pure ly business considerations are at stake.
 ngly interesting to find the closest possi- ble harmony between the social activities of the Corporation and the doctrines Of expert philanthropy. Expert philanthropy.
 for instance, has been urging these many years that there should be protection Of the toier in dangerous trades. Steel mak- ing is a dangerous trade In spite of the Constitution, the American people are generally quite cheated of their ''inalien- able right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness by the defective law and the irreproachable courts Every other nation that respects itself has some effective workmans compensation law. America leaves the question open and the result Is that what compensation is given by or wrenched from the employer goes to the lawyer, exasperating the employer and not benefittng the empoye. But the Cor poration has evolved it's own voluntary scheme, frankly taxing the profits of its manufactured steel with the cost in health and limb and life added to the cost ia plant and wages. More than this. it's taxation of profits is largely employed in the improvement of machinery, with guarded danger points and danger-zones, so as to reduce to a minimum the risks of the workman. A further step has been taken in the encouragement of the work CTS themselves to cooperate in the protec- ton of the careless or ignorant when soever by their heedlessness they are en- dangering life and limb. Various induce ments are held out by the management in hope of securing not only this CO.,
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Every animal destined to walk very much has been provided with pads of tough horn or tufts of thick flesh The ee- phant, the camel the dog, the eat, the wolf and many others come within this category. The OK, the ass and the horse and many others have the horn foot. But man has nothing of the kind. He Is born without shoes. However, in Orien- tai lands, man creates a tough sole of foot which answers for a shoe even to this day.
 The shoe speaks of it's evolution. At first man walked barefooted. Stone bruise and various other troubles of the feet suggested the sandal. In cold coun- tries the sandal gave no warmth to the feet. This gave rise to covered sandals and from the covered sandal came the cloth shoe. In the middle ages first came into being the long toed cloth shoe, and the greater the social position a man held the longer was the shoe that he wore. If the reader has any pictures of the gentry of the time of Henry " and and Henry V, he may see the represen- tations of the long toed shoe, made of velvet, which were then in vogue. When a little boy, I used to wonder what Hot spur did in time of battle with his shoes. In the course of time buckszin shoes were worn, then came the soft skin shoes and finally the leather foot covering. There was a time when the shoes and slippers of kings, queens and princes were made of the fur of the little animal called the ermine. l think that such a
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cobber, but I'm sure that Carlyle's friend Herr Teufelsdrock, Prof. der Alerly Wissenschaft, Universitat der Weissnich- two," could give us much wisdom on this subject. Dickens does it to perfection. He made a visit to Monmouth street. the Paradise of second hand clothes dealers, an account of which he gives in his Med itations In Monmouth Street." in his sketches by Boz. He sees a long row Of second hand shoes and boots outside a shop door, and in a few minutes he has the cast off boots and shoes. He knew precisely what they looked like, these former owners, and at the close of his meditations, the shoes-but let me here turn to Dickens and use his words: "When to our unspeakable astonishment we perceived that the whole of the char acters, including a numerous corps de ballet of boots and shoes in the back ground, were arranging themselves in or der for dancing, and some music striking up at that moment, to it they went with out delay" He then describes the bow ing and shuffling the attempt of a pair of list slippers to approach a lady's cloth boots, then the forward movement of a pair of boots, and so forth and son on. But my dear Madam, you must read this sketch of Monmouth street for yourself if you would know something of Dickens early imagination.
 Launce asks, Should not the shoe speak word?" I have said that it should It speaks of many things. l was in Dub-
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classified in steel with the scientific term "Carnegesis?' As to that, it is probably safe to say that Mr. Taft, plus MT. Wick ersham, can never prevail with broom, or even two brooms, to sweep away roots native to the soil. Least of all can they with brooms sweep back the tides Of rne Atlantic ocean,. The economies are going to be practiced, pace the Independents With all the eterrible risks involved by the mower of vast. almost incalculable wealth in the hands of few men, what ever scattering of apparent authority may be brought about by interference born or politics or of fear, it is as certain as to- morrow's sun that the centralization idea has come to stay.
 And we may be perfectly sure that all the truisms and illusions, which are taken for trusms passing back and forth among Gbsefvant people who wonder whereunto this will grow, are even more exactly un- derstood in the counsels of the corporation than anywhere else. We may give the men in whose brain this tremendous power is heinz organized credit for looking quite q long way beyond their noses.
 Do they represent a conspiracy to thWart the liberties of this republic? Must if not be evident to every intelligent Amer ican that no such conspiracy could be matched out of Bedam? And these men are not mad as some few scared citizens seem to suppose. They are to be under stood only and strictly as highly special ized business men. working out by purely mathematical processes, but in the light of history and common sense, the problem of dividends They know that the press of this country can never be muZZied.
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lin. in old Ireland, some time ago. in a doorway sat two Irishmen. One of them took me in literally from top to toe My travelling cap puzzled him; my brown melton may have stamped me for an Englishman But my shoes spoke. and as l passed by l heard him say, An Amer ican, by his shoes, and l expected him to add, the Stacey and Adams make
 The shoe speaks of many things, but the shoe, like the shoemaker, should never forget the advice of Apelles. \ shoemaker pointed out an error that Ap- elles had committed in painting slipper, which the great artist corrected The shoemaker then criticised other parts Of the picture whereupon Apelles advised, Ne sutor ultra crepidam,' that Is, Let not the shoemaker go beyond his last thing, though, that many times the shoes speaking beyond the shoemakers last, is quite pardonable.
 Shoes speak of the great men that have been shoemakers, or at least remind Us of them. One of our vice presidents at Washington had been shoemaker. The first code of laws formed in New England erly shoemaker Roger Sherman, of | whom John Adams said he was one of the strongest pillars of the Revolution, and who was placed on the committee to pre- l pare a Declaration of Independence, was | once a cobbler; Winckelmann, one of the l worlds greatest archaeologists. had been l a shoemaker Bishop Burnet refers to Sir l Cloudesey Shovel as "one of the greatest
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seamen of his age. he had been a cobber. The former cobbler lies in Westminster along with kings and queens: Bloom field, the English pastoral poet, had worked at shoemaking, so with the great philologist and missionary, William Cary. Scores of other names could easily be added to these that I have mentioned, and Of which shoes speak.
 Shoemakers. as will be remembered. nave a patron saint to whom, apparently. certain shoes cry and ereak. This saint is Grispin. St. Crispin was a shoemaker, and an aWl was his lance. St Crispins Day is October 25, and the color for that day, in the worship of the liturgicaI churches, is red, for the saint was a martyr. The battle of Agincourt was fought on October 25 hence the reference in King Henry to St. Crispln in the elo- qnent charge that Shakespeare puts upon the lips of the King: This day Is called the feast of Crispian; He that outlives this day, and comes safe
 home.
 Will stand a tp-toe when this day is
 named,
 And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day and see old
 age,
 Will yearly on the vigil feast his friends
 invite,
 And say. Tomorrow is Saint Crispian. Then will he strip his sleeve and show
 his scars.
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K Yo honest observer of things social,
 M whatever his convictions about the
 4 labor unions, can afford to pass
 unnoticed the wonderful experiments being carried on throughout the country
 by the great Steel Corporation. This mas sive array of business power has put it's foot down in our own district, and has ex- pended an enormous volume of money, first in the purchase, and later in the en- largement and equipment of the Tennes- see Coal and Iron Companys holdings. Not the most enthusiastic advocate of modern methods can claim that Birming- ham has welcomed the corporation. Many Lave frankly prophesied the ultimate ap- sorption of every independent plant by the octopus" Those who hurried to in- vest in lots at Corey and who observed the building of the Steel and Wire Com pany's works there, and the sumptuous plans of the Corey Land Company, also prophesied with confidence. They now darlxly meditate on the fact that the ma- chinery shipped for that plant, or once about to be shipped, is running elsewhere, and employing laborers who are living not at Corey, but perchance in Pennsyl- vania or Illinois, or Indiana. And both they and the others, friends of the dis trict, who want diversified industry to be cultivated here, are considering what it will be when Birmingham will live, mos and have it's being solely by permission . of the "Octopus." Or will MT. Taft's un- hIghted roses bloom and flourish in those fields devoted now apparently to the un- challenged cultivation of the trusts, his gardener ruthlessly uprooting everything
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ing influence which proceeded from tho loftest summit-that of a pure and ex- alted life. He was active i'll the stirring scenes which affected the period in which he lived; never shied duty imposed, and always met his obligations in such way as to win the highest need of pup Re praise. Men came to know him so thoroughly that no pressure or a ques- tionabe matter was ever made, because his integrity was proverbal. From his well known standard of life men knew where to place him on all questions which involved the moral sides of right and wrong Such was the life, such the career of William Parish Chiffon.
 The time may have produced men his equals in the qualities already named, but it produced none superior to Judge Chiffon. His was not an ostentatious dis play of virtue in order to elicit atten- ton, for none were meeker, more placid and tranquil, but his was silent influ- ence which impressed wherever it touched. His condemnation of wrong was not of the deponstrative kind, but his dsapproval was a silent expression which was always powerful. As one of the ancient philosophers said of one of his brother philosophers, He always says the same thing about the same thing" so it was in the uniform bear
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Second, you want to he as useful in your day and generation as you were designed 10 he. l care not how stupidly selfish Nou.may have succeeded in making yourself you can never quite get over the feeling that you are under obligation 10 help your fellows.
 If you could live bY yourself and for yourself and of yourself il might be diff forent. You would never know the pull on our heartstrings. But you are a frac- ton of humanity, incomplete of yourself. You belong to the other fraction
 Even the grafters and the misers come at last to feel that they owe great deal more than they own.
 Third, you want to be remembered when you are gone. He Is very low down in whose heart is no desire to live in the esteem of his kind after he is dead.
 That desire is the queuchless longing of your personality.
 Now
 You will not be satisfied until you can be what you were made to be, until you are of use to those about you, until you feel the world will miss you when you are gone
 What course of conduct will lead 10 the accomplishment of these natural de- sires?
 An, that finds the sore place!
 Which proves that you are not always quite willing to try to be what you would like 10 be.
 There are others like you.
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They know that business depends upon the welfare of the people and they know that welfare means freedom, personal in- terest, the rights so long ago guaranteed to all who make America their home. Ana it is becoming increasingly manifest that the leaders of the Corporation can find no other way of assuring an undisturbed possession and peaceful development of .heir plants than that of quasi partner ship with the people, through their accred- tied representatives,. the government at Washington. The striking phenomenon Of socialism is just as manifest to these business men as to politicians. And 1t may well be supposed that nothing said, written or done by leaders. of the people. from Karl Marx to Lloyd George or Eu. gene Debs, is lost on the Steel Corpora tion. Who doubts but that the study of these new developments of political doc- Urine is a regularly organized function of that body? Nothing is more absurd than to suppose therefore that the Steel Cor poration is a reaetionary force, bent on killing the very soul of our civilization that prorressive force, namely, which is now manifestly working toward the bet ter distribution of the possessions and the welfare-material available in .his land.
 Let us agree then that the Corporation in all it's parts is engag ged on all hands in a series of sociological experiments, and only asks to be left undisturbed while working them out. Let us by all means agree that the Corporation is in business, not for patriotic reasons, and not for phil anthropic reasons, and not for any senti- mental reason soever. It has learned, we
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moving rapidly to the same point. the un- ionist. the socialist, and the capitalist?
 Certainly one finds it hard to imagine at what point the United States govern- ment can logically halt while it engages in the task of fixing freight and passenger rates on the railroads: while it listens to invitations to fix the price of steel prod ucts, and perhaps also the price of coal; while it colaborates with the mining com panies in saving life or in avoiding acci- dents. Will the next step be federal so- cialism or state-communism, or will state industries be branches of one central office in Washington, with power to distribute benefcent results in their own geograph- ical areas? These be mere Saulish propIi- ecies and guesswork: for the preacher among political evolutonists is as Saul among the prophets.
 My excuse must be the desire to me- diate, to say to U'nionist and Independent md Indiyidualist as to the open-shop en- thusiast, the Trust advocate, and the So- cialist alike: Here is a new thng Here is Money added to Brains. working out Justice on the basis of Mathematics. Let us calmly consider this portent and net throw contempt brickbats until We know whom we ought to hit. Here Is Philanthropy for Dividens only, Here Is Justice considered as an investments Here is Socialism running in benefieent streams through a eapitalistic water pipe. Here is the manufactu turer of steel billets and steel rails Vieine with the
 hurch, the preacher and the school in tl.s building of manhood. However the ex- pertinent works out. it is to be reckonen as emmently worth while, deserving the attention of the Nobel trustees.
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quentIy the spell of his influence was overwhelming.
 Among his numerous traits may he named that of his intense interest in young men. His counsel was frequently sought by struggling youth because or his transparent frankness, readiness and responsiveness. He manifested keen n- terest in his young brother-in-law, John T. Morgan. who was perhaps more ill., debted to Judge Chiffon than to any other for the substantial basis with which he began his brilliant and evenfful career. It was not uncommon for him to seek an interview with young man in whom she discovered gifts. and aid him to gain d solid footing.
 When G1 years old Judge Chiffon was still active and alert his natural force still unabated, and his spirit undimmed by years of activity, and, when il seemed that many years of usefulness were still his. he suffered from a serious fall from which he never recovered. His death in Montgomery in January, 1S71. was all oe- casion of state wide sorrow. The legis- lature was in session at the time, and Governor Lindsay announced the saul fact of his death in the following com munication to the general assembly:
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Talladega county in the legislature, MT. Chiffon was afterward elected 10 seat on the supreme bench of the state. suc- ceeding Judge Ormund. Later. still, In 1852, Judge Chiffon became the chief jus tee of the supreme court of Alabama which position he held with great dis tnction for four years Retiring from this judicial position, he became asso- eiated, i'll 1860. with William l.. Yancey, in the practice of the law in Mont gomery.
 When the Confederacy was created Judge Chiffon was elected d member of the provisional congress of the young government and throughout it's brief and Hateful history retained his seat in that body Speaking of his in terest and activity, Hon. J. l.. M. Cur ", who was his congressional col league said: Tt was a common remark that he was the most laborious mem Der of the body" He loved labor equal ly from an instinctive energy and from sense of duty. On the floor of the Confederate congress the opinion of no member was esteemed of greater worth than that of Judge Chiffon.
 In the rough and tumble of debate which he enjoyed, whether on the hust- ings or on the floor of congress, he displayed rare humor, reveling in or
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"HE above question was asked by
 Launce in The Two Gentlemen of
 x Verona, in the third scene of the second act And so far as 1 am concerned I should say, By all means the shoe should speak word and as many words as it may want. It has sole and a tongue and therefore it should speak. In numerous cases the speaking of the shoe has disclosed many mysteries. In criminal records the speaking of the shoe has been most important. It has brought many burglar and thief to his deserts. It has declared that such and such a one did the wrong; for said the shoe, "by a close examination you will see that I was brought hither on the night of a crime. on the feet of a thief; here am worn down at the heel; at the toe there is something of a hole; and here and there you will find a little mud pre- cisely like that beneath the window, or at the door through which the burglar forced his way"
 It was the shoe that spoke of the blood stain that marked the entrance to the and over and over again great issues in courts of law depended upon what the shoe spoke to the jury. In Greenleaf on Evidence. a book which every clergyman and every attorney should read, you will find that less than a shoe may determine great issues See articles Homicide, Eel onious Homicide and Murder, in part V, of Volume 3 of third edition.
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slipper the prince, in the story, gave to Cinderella. I am fully persuaded that it was not glass slipper, but one of fur. The old English word for fur was "vair' the French word for glass was 'vair' though spelt "verre." I faney that the story was translated by dictation, and when the word "var'' was reached, he who took down the dictaton remembered only one "vair'' (verre, that is glass; :: Hence there came the story of the glass slipper instead of the soft, beautiful slip per which Cinderella's sisters knew only princesses wore. Sir Walter Scott use-; the old word "Yair' for fur in the Lady of the Lake:
 In Rome when that city was at the height of it's glory, the sandal was at the height of it's splendor The sandal, like other garments worn by women, was beautifully ornamented. The straps were of gold, richly inlaid with precious stones; the ankle bandages were usually wrought of some costly fabric and crossed with great skill and artistic effect. A pair of sandals in those days cost money enough to buy handsome house and lot in these days. In the middle ages it was the custom to wear very eXtravagant shoes of a most curions shape. So much money went into shoes that the ministry preached against the common custom and laws were enacted with the hope of check ing the growing evil. But more and more was footgear ornamented despite the law and the gospel.
 I suppose that shoes have reached their perfection In this day, though all shoes
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ney or sumthing anuther in St. Louis. Mr. Folk landed sum Big Uns in jail, and so will Doc, or we have maid a bad guess. Enny how, Doc would not back off, and he hasn't backed off yet, being firmly convinsed that ars- nick and 32nd degree germs packed by millionaF contributor to the campaign fund is just about as fatel to the digestive sparkling plugs of the common peepul as it would be if hand ed to them frum eeny uther source.
 Now, Doc is the brite beeeun lite of those American citizens who have not yet, but air on the verge of being turned inside out and carefully in vestigated by the Administration. Doc has been initiated and took the thrid degree, and is feeling fine. He has his offisial o. K. and is still doing bizness at the same old stand, and the
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r AM going to give you some rather
 unusual advice.
 4 Mako money.
 Make it honestly. Make it and give 1t
 away.
 Say wnat you will, money as our socie- sty is constituted at present is a tremen- dous power for good as well as evil. There's R. A. Long. He is Kansas City millionaire who has made his money largely in buying timberlands, And he is giving it away
 urith lavish hand. He helps to endow col -eges, sends out missionaries and gives to churches and charities. For instance: When 1t was proposed to build a hos pital in Kansas City, R. A. Long said: Lets make it one of the largest and best in the word.n And he went down in his pocket and gave about half the proposed cost of the big institution. Said M. Long, 'I make it one of the conditions that one-third of the beds of this hospital shall be free to the poor Is not that fine? Make m m,ney-honestly-and give 1t away because of the worlds need Colleges. churches hospitals homes for the ftiend,css and little children, humane societies, night schools, associated ehar- tes-all these worthy causes make an ap- peal that only may be met with money. Make money-honestly-and give it away because you can thus multiply yourself. One time F. A. Nye is just F. A. We. . But one thousand times R. A. Long is q | thousand R. A. Longs. And thousand i R. A. Longs is a thousand times E. A, Nye--anI then some. Do you see"
 Make money-honestly--and give it away kbegause of the happiness it will bring you. We are all of us shut up to this limita-
 ton. To be happy we must give either
 of self or money, and the more we give
 the happier we may be. He who Is