Decatur Democrat, Volume 43, Number 43, Decatur, Adams County, 4 January 1900 — Page 7

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Tonight :'.s Henry Maxwell read to •■s wife lie could see in almost every iluum i videncesof Norman’sconscienp’. r -c.bedience to his promise. There ff lsan absence of slangy, sensational re heads. The reading matter under headlines was in perfect keeping jrith them. He noticed in two columns ihat the rejiorters’ names appeared, <i ned at the bottom, and there was a distinct advance in the dignity and jtvle of their contributions. ••So Norman is beginning to get his riorters to sign their work. He has ied with me about that. It is a good 11,ng It Uses responsibility for items There it belongs and raises tho standard f ,f work dune, a good thing all around for public and writers. ” Henry Maxwell suddenly paused. His K ife locked up from some work she HS doing. He was reading something with the utmost interest. “Listen to this, Mary.” he said after a moment, while his voice trembled: "This morning Alexander Powers, saperintendent of the L. and T. R. R. shops in this city, handed his resignation to the road and gave as the reason the fact that certain proof hail fallen into his hands of the violation of the interstate commerce law. and also of the state law. which has recently been •framed to prevent and punish railroad pooling for the benefit of ceitain favored shippers Mr. Powers states in his resignation that he can no longer consistently withhold tho information he possesses against tho road. He has placed his evidence against the company in the hands of the commission, and it is now for them to take action npon it “The News wishes to express itself on this action of Mr. Powers In the first place, he has nothing to gain by it He has lost a valuable place voluntarily when by keeping silent he might have retained it In the second place, we believe his action ought to receive the approval of all thoughtful, honest citizens who believe in seeing law obeyed and lawbreakers brought to justice. In a case like this, where evidence against a railroad company is generally nnderstood to be almost impossible to obtain, it is the general belief that ttie alters of the road are often in possession of criminating facts, but do not consider it to be any of their business to inform the authorities that the law is being defied. “The entire result of this evasion of responsibility on the part of those who are responsible is demoralizing to every young man connected with the road. The edit: r of The News recalls the ttateinent made by a prominent railroad official in this city a little while ago that nearly every clerk in a certain department of the road who understood how large sums of money were made by shrewd violations of the interstate commerce law was ready to admire the shrewdness with which it was done and declared that they would all do the same thing if they were high enough in railroad circles to attempt it. [This was actually said in one of the general offices of a great western railroad, to the author’s Jrnowledge. ] “It is not necessary to say that such a condition of business is destructive to all the nobler and higher standards of conduct, and no young man can live in such an atmosphere of unpunished dishonesty and lawlessness without wrecking his character. “In our judgment, Mr. Powers did the only thing that a Christian man cun do. He has rendered brave and useful service to the state and the general public. It is not always an easy matter to determine the relations that exist between the individual citizen and his fixed duty to the public. In this case there is no doubt in our mind that the step which Mr. Powers has taken commends itself to every man who believes ip law and its enforcement. There are times when the individual must act for the people in ways that will mean sacrifice and loss to him of the gravest character. Mr. Powers will be misunderstood and misrepresented, but there * s no question that his course will be approved by every citizen who wishes to see the greatest corporations as well as the weakest individual subject to the tame law. Mr. Powers has done all that a loyal, patriotic citizen could do. It u jw remains for the commission to act upon his evidence, which, we understand. is overwhelming proof of tho lawlessness of tha L. and T. Let the Isw be enforced, no matter who the Persons may be who have been guilty. ’’ Henry Maxwell finished reading and dropped the paper. I must go and see Powers. This is the result of his promise. ’’ He rose, and as he was going out his Wl fe eaid: ‘Do you think, Henry, that Jesus would have done that?” Henry Maxwell paused a moment he answered slowly: "Yes; I think he wouid. At any rate, °wers has decided so, and each one of J? who made the promise understands at he is not deciding Jesus' conduct on e else, only for himself.” 'How about his familv ? How will Powers and Celia be likely to take I have no doubt. That Th "'-‘ .Dowers’ cross in this matter. will not understand his motive.” 0 Maxwell went out and walked r to the next block, where the su-

perintendent lived. To his relief. Powi ers himself came to the door. I The two men shook hands silently. They instantly understood each other without words. There had never been such a bond of union between the minister and his parishioner. “What are you going to do?” Henrv Maxwell asked after they had talked over the facts in the case and considered them well. “Yon mean another position? I have no plans yet. I can go back to my old work as a telegraph operator. My family will not suffer except in a social way. ’ ’ Alexander Powers spoke calmly, if sadly. Henry Maxwell did not need to ask him how his wife and daughter felt. He knew well enough that the superintendent had suffered deepest at that point. “There is one matter I wish you would see to,” said Powers after awhile, “and that is the w<.rk begun at tho shops. So far as I know, the company will net object to that going right on. It is one of the contradictions of the railroad world that the Y. M. C. A and other Christian influences are encouraged by the roads, while all the time the most un-Christian and lawless acts are being committed in the official management of the roads themselves. Os course it is understood that it pays a railroad to have in its employ men who are temperate and honest and Christian. So I have no doubt the master mechanic will have the same courtesy extended to him that I had in the matter of the room and its uses. But what I want you to do. Mr. Maxwell, is to see that my plan is carried out. W’ll you’ You understand what the idea was in general You made a veryfavorable impression on the men. Go down there as often as you can Get Milton Wright interested to provide something for the furnishing and expense of the coffee plant and reading tables. Will you do it?" “Yes. ” replied Henry Maxwell. He staid a little longer Before he went away ho and the superintendent had a prayer together, and they parted with that silent hand grasp that seemed to them like a tiHV token of their Christian discipleship and fellowship. The> pastor of the First church went home stirred deeply by the events of the week. Gradually the truth was growing upon him that the [ ledge to do as Jesus would was working out a revolution in his parish and throughout the city. Every day added to the serious results of obedience to that pledge Henry Maxwell did not pretend to see the end. He was, in fact, only now at the very beginning of events that were destined to change the history of hundreds of families, not only in Raymond, but throughout the entire country As he thought of Edward Norman and Rachel and Mr. Powers and of the results that had already com* from their actions he could not help a feeling of intense interest in the probable effect if all the persons in the First church who had made the pledge faithfully kept it. Would they all keep it. or would some of them turn back when the cross became too heavy ? He was asking this question the next morning as he sat in his study when the president of the Endeavor society called to see him. “I suppose I ought not to trouble yon with mv case.” said young Morris, coming at once to his errand, “but 1 thought. Mr. Maxwell, that you might advise me a little.” “I’m glad you came. Go on, Fred. Henry Maxwell had known the young man ever since his first year in the pastorate and loved and honored him for his consistent, faithful service in the church. “Well, the fact is I’m out of a job You know. I’ve been doing reporter work on The Morning Sentinel since 1 graduated last year. Well, last Saturday Mr. Burr asked me to go down the road Sunday morning and get the details of that train robbery at the junction and write the thing up for the extra edition that came out Monday morning, just to get the start of The News I refused to go, and Burr gave me my dismissal He was in a bad temper or I think perhaps he would not have done it He has always treated me well before. Now. don t you think Jesus would have done as I did? 1 asK because the other fellows say I was a fool not to do the work. I want to feel that a Christian acts from motives that may seem strange to others some times, but not foolish. What do you th ink . ••I think you kept your pnm*. Fred I cannot believe Jesus would do newspaper work on Sunday, as you We .'Tlmnk Mr’ Maxwell I felt a little troubled over it, but the longer think it over the better I fee . Morris rose to go, and Henry well rose and laid a loving hand on the young man’s shoulder. Fred?” ? “What are you going to do, I red , . “I don't know set. I have thought some of going to Chicago or some Large Ci “Why don’t you try The News?” “They are all supplied. „I hate not ISL *■»■« <« th. “ “V" “i-wTSXi;

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briefly told the cause of their t rrand. “I can give you a place on The News,” said Edward Norman, with his keen look softened by a smile that made it winsome. “I want reporters who won’t work Sundays. And, what is more, I am making plans for a special kind of reporting which I believe young Morris here can develop because he is in sympathy with what Jesus would do.” He assigned Morris a definite task, and Henry Maxwell started back to his study feeling that kind of satisfaction —and it is a very deep kind—which a man feels when he has been even partly instrumental in finding an unemployed person a situation. He had intended to go back to his study, but on his way home he passed by one of Milton Wright’s stores. He thought he would simply step in and shake hands with his parishioner and bid him godspeed in what he had heard he was doing to put Christ into his business, but when he went into the office Milton Wright insisted on detaining him to talk over some of his new plans Henry Maxwell asked himself if this was the Milton M right he used to know, eminently practical, businesslike, according to tho regular code of the business world, and viewing everything first and foremost from the standpoint of “Will it pay ?’’ . “There is no use to disguise the fact, Mr Maxwell, that I have been compelled to revolutionize the whole method of my business since I made that promise I have been doing a great many things during the last 20 rears in this store that I know Jesns vrtSuld not do, but that is a small item compared with the number of things I begin to believe Jesus would do. My sins of commission have not been as many as those of omission in business relations. ” “What was the first change you made?” asked Henry Maxwell He felt as if his sermon could wait for him in his study As the interview with Milton Wright continued he was not so sure but he had found material for a Mjrmon without going back to his study. “I think the first change I had to make was in my thought of my em-

ployees I camo down here Monday morning after that Sunday and asked myself 'What would Jesus do in his relation to these clerks, bookkeepers, office boys, draymen, salesmen ? Would he try to establish some sort of personal relation to them different from that which 1 have sustained all these years?' I soon answered the question by saying. ■Yes Then came the question of what it would lead me to do “1 did not see how I could answer it to my satisfaction without getting all my employees together and having a talk with them So 1 sent invitations to all of them, and we had a meeting out there in the warehouse Tuesday night “A good many things came out of that meeting 1 can t tell you all I tried to talk with the men as 1 imagined Jesus might It was hard work, for I have not been in the habit of it, and I must have made mistakes But I can hardly make you believe. Mr. Maxwell. the effect of that meeting on some of the men Before it closed I saw more than a dozen of them with tears on their faces. I kept asking, 'What would Jesus do?’ and the more I asked it the further along it pushed me into the most intimate and loving relations with the men who have worked for me all these years. Every day something new is coming up, and I am right now* in the midst of a reconstructing of the entire business, so far as its motive for being conducted is concerned. lam so practically ignorant of all plans for cooperation and its application to business that 1 am trying to get information from every possible source. I have lately made a special study of the life of Titus Salt, the great mill owner of Bradford. England, who afterward built that model town on the banks of the Aire There is a good deal in his plans that will help But I have not yet reached definite conclusions in regard to all the details. I am not enough used to Jesus methods But see here. Milton eagerly reached up into one of the pigeonholes of his desk and took out a paper “1 have sketched out what seems to me a programme sv.ch as Jesus might

go by in a business like mine I want you to tell me what yen think about it ’ “WHAT JESVS WOULD PROBABLY DO IN MILTON WRIGHT’S PLACE AS A BUSINESS MAN “1 He would engage in business for the purpose of glorifying God and not for the primary purpose of making money “2 All money that might be made he would never regard as his own. but as trust funds to be used for the good of humanity “3 His relations with all the persons in his employ would be the most loving and helpful He could not help thinking of them all in the light of souls to be saved. This thought would always be greater than his thought of making money in business. “4 He would never do a single dishonest or questionable thing or try in the remotest way to get the advantage of any one else in the same business. “5 The principle of unselfishness and helpfulness in all the details of the business would direct its details. “6 Upon this principle he would shape the entire plan of his relations to his employees, to the people who were his customers and to the general business world with which he was connected. ’’ Henry Maxwell read this over slowly It reminded him of his own attempts the day before to put into a concrete form his thought of Jesus’ probable action. He was very thoughtful as he looked up and met Milton Wright’s eager gaze “Do yon believe you can continue to make your business pay on those lines?’ “Ido Intelligent unselfishness ought to be wiser than intelligent selfishness, don’t you think? If the men who work as employees begin to feel a personal share in the profits of the business and. more than that, a personal love for themselves on the part of the firm, won’t the result be more care, less waste, more diligence, more faithful ness?' “Yes; I think sa A good many other business men don’t, do they ? I mean as a general thing How about your re

lations to the selfish world that is net trying to make money on Christian principles t' "That complicates my action, of coarse "Does your plan contemplate what is coming to be known as co-operation f “Yes. as far as 1 have gone, it does As I told yon 1 am studying out my details carefully lam absolutely convinced that Jesus in my place would be absolutely unselfish He would love all these men in his employ He would consider the main purpose of all the business to be a mutual helpfulness and would conduct it all so that God’s kingdom would be evidently the first object sought. On those general principles, as I say. I am working. I must have time to complete the details. When Henry Maxwell finally left Milton Wright, he was profoundly impressed with the revolution that was being wrought already in the business. As he passed out of the store he caught something of the new spirit of the place. There was no mistaking the fact that Milton Wright’s new relations to his employees were beginning, even so soon, after less than two weeks, to transform the entire business. This was apparent in the conduct and faces of the clerks. [TO BE CONTINUED. | Congressman Houtelle. Boston, Dec. 30.—T0 all who inquire after the condition of Congressman Boutelle at the McLean asylum the reply is given that he is getting along nicely and improving in strength. Dr. Daniel A. Robinson, the physician who came from Bangor to attend him after he was stricken at Young's hotel, says that while the congressman may recover his physical health and vigor it is possible tnat he may never be the same mentally again.

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