Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1914 — THE EMPLOYE'S DUE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE EMPLOYE'S DUE.

(By His Eminence\JAME6, CARDINAL GIBBONS.) "The modern democratic spirit came from the Bible. The popular inatltntlons of today can be seen as developments of early Hebrew institution#."— William P. Merrill. D. D.

The Redeemer of mankind neve* conferred a greater temporal blessing

on the human race than by nobling and sanctifying labor, and by rescuing ft from the stigma o f degradation that had ' been branded upon iL I cannot conceive any thought better calculated to ease the yoke and to lighten the bur* den of the Christian toiler than the reflection that the highest type of manhood voluntarily devoted himself to manual

labor, his boyhood and early manhood being spent in a mechanic's! shop: “Is not this the carpenter, the Son of Mary?” t Labor has its sacred rights as #ell as its dignity. Paramount among the rights of the laboring classes is their privilege to organize for their mutual protection and benefit It is in accordance with natural right that those who have one common interest should unite for its promotion. It is as unjust to deny to workingmen the right to band together because of the abuses incident to such combinations, as to withhold the same right from capitalists because they sometimes unwarrantably seek to crush or absorb weaker rivals. That “the laborer is worthy of hie hire” is the teaching of Christ as well as the dictate of reason. He deserves and that is kind and considerate treatment. There would be less ground for complaint against employers if they kept in view the golden maxim of the gospel: “Whatsoever ye would that! men should do unto yqu, do ye also to them.” Our sympathies for those in our employ, whether in the household, the mines, or the factory, are wonderfully quickened by putting ourselves in their place and asking ourselves how we would wish to be treated under similar circumstances. * There Is no enjoyment in life so pure and so substantial as that which springs from the reflection that others are made content and haptfy by our benevolence. And lam speaking here not of the' benevolence of gratuitous bounty, but of fair-dealing tempered with benignity. Considerate Kindness is like her sister Mercy: "It droppoth as the gentle rain Cram heaven Upon the place beneath; ft is twice bless’d, . It blemeth him that gives, and him that takes; 'Tie mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown.”