Arizona republican., 1913-09-08

$500. Thus selfishness is working corruption in politics. Public offices in large cities are often sought be- cause they afford chance for pIunder. Selfishness leads to oppression of the poor. The law will not allow a man to starve his horse. When a man had slaves he fed them well. Christian civilization must insist people shall not be paid starvation wages
 In our large cities girls are asked to work a pittiance. only by most rigid economy can they exist. The tempta- ton to evil is terrific. Thus selfishness becomes wolfish and tanic. There is many man who is driven to despair because he cannot support his family on his wages. I knew a man in Chicago who got ten thousand dollars a year, and other men worked for a dollar and a quarter per day for the same firm. That surely was not a fair distribution of the wages. We need men who can direct great estab- lishments, and they should be well paid but q difference in pay as is indicated above seems unjust. Too long hours of labor is expected of some laborers. Our new state law is a splendid tri- umph in the right direction.
 Prof Ely of Madison, Wisconsin. says that the street car employees of Baltimore were laboring over seven teen hours per day and they rebelled. We think rightly. At a mass meeting where a bill favOring a day of twelve hours was being discussed a minister said that is was question of the preser- VatiOn of the home the family, for what kind of family could you have where the father was away seventeen hours a day and seven days in the week? Soon after this meeting a man said: T wish MT. S would confine him. self to preaching the simple gospel of Christ" The man to whom this was addressed said to his critic: "So you own some street railway stock do you? and the man finally confessed that though he didn't. his wife did
 The kind Of labor a man does should nave something to do with the number of hours he tolls. l do not defend the spirit which detests work but we ought to see that such work has limitation in hours. Long hours of toll rob the family of a due share of the husbands and fathers time for his home. They exhaust the laborer so that they unfit him for the higher and better and rec reatiOns such as reading or study The best experts in the study of this ques- uon claim without hesitation that it is the long hour men, and not the short hour men" who most patronize the saloons. The eight hour day is the greatest temperance advocate know of. If you wish to get the most out of a man during a working life time you will have to reduce his hours of labor to eight each day. We ought to remember a man has a right to a lifetimes work
 The laborer is oppressed by Sunday toll. A man with whom I talked in an eastern city said T have had only one Sunday in twenty months" In my opinion which is well backed by statistics there is entirely too much Sunday labor, and too little cOnsidera- tion of the men who are forced by cir cumstances over which they have no control to work on Sunday. Child la bor is another crime evil. This is de- creasing in Europe, but we are not so certain of this in our own country. It is declared that there is more child labor in Illinois than in many countries of Europe. Human greed has Apened into cruelty and crime, when for in creased dividends it will dwarf the
 
 is saying to us: These are bone of your bone and flesh of your flesh. We must recognize the brotherhood of all men.
 We need more encouragement to men and women of all stations in life. We need to better their conditions and their surroundings, so that they will not be forever chafing under their work be- tf, frT1 hniV position and cannot. There is much vicious and foolish talk uttered to young people, for instance a man in addressing a class in Sunday school said, Boys every one of you may yet be president. He was sowing the seed of discontent
 The Ruskin Hall opened in cOnnec- tion with Oxford University in England a few years ago is a movement in the right direction. The object is stated thus, Tt is not to raise the laboring men above the station in which they have been placed by circumstances. The object is to raise them in the sta tiOn, to make them better workmen and wiser leaders of their fellow men" All honest labor is noble and must be done Rich and poor are equal politi- cally. The vote of one counts as much as the vote of the other. and when the kingdom of God has come in it's full ness they will be equal socially. The church in many ways emphasizes this equality. When the minister baptizes the child of pauper he uses the same ritual as when he baptizes the child of a millionaire. In marriage the same words unite the prince and the peasant. At the sacrament the rich and poor are alike. At the grave of the man buried in the potters field the words are the same as at the burial of king. Thus the church emphasizes the equality of Us all
 In the social creed adopted by the Methodist church at Minneapolis in May 1912. which is practically the same as that of the federal council of church. es, the wording is almost exactly that of the social plank in the progressive