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A BOY LABOR LEADER
BUT FOURTEEN YEARS OLD AND A
WALKING DELEGATE.
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A Hew York Prodin Brought to Publle
Hotioe by k. Strike of Cloekmakert—He
Tlka Earnestly on Labor Topics l
nbeads to Bea Lawyer.
Marcus O. Braff, Jr., of New York is
only a boy, but he does a man’s work.
He is just 14 years oldaud hasn’t yet
graduated from the juvenile shirt waist
that makes him a boy.
He is the walking delegate of the
Striking cloakmakers, whose headquar
ters are in Rivington street. He is lead
ing grown men and women on to vic
tory. He is the youngest walking dele
gate in a big, troublous world peppered
with walking delegates—that make!
him a man.
Many of the strikers believe Marcus
Kus been providentially sent to them as
a leader. They bow to his opinion
They call what he says wisdom.
It is a strange spectacle to behold this
boy in knickerbockers seated on a high
stool in his grimy little office, giving
advice to bent, wrinkled men and wom
en and receiving their initiation fees
and dues, for Marcus is also assistant
secretary of the union He rose to this
position among the strikers just as an
able man does in the big world.
His father is a striker and was for
merly secretary. The boy helped his fa
ther in the routine office work. In that
way he first attracted attention
Then it was discovered that this bc*s
was the man for the placa
A reporter went to see Marcus the
other day. The youthful delegate was
seated on his high stool, whistling. Ha
has a wise look about his eyes—sad
black eyes. He has a well built head,
massive, out of proportion to his slen
der neck and his undeveloped body of a
child of 10.
He knits hfis brows when he thinks,
like the grown man whose part he i*
playing.
The authority vested in him has re
vealed no weakness of conceit or vanity.
He is as yet unspoiled—a boy one
minute, whistling, the next a man in
deep thought, revolving the problems of
the strike. He showed no false pride,
nor did he hesitate about being inter
viewed.
He talked readily about the trike, a*
another boy of his age would have done
about tops.
“What do you think about the strug
gle between capital and labor in thil
strike?” he was asked.
“The capitalists will have to give
in,” he said, clasping his small hands
over one knee. “It is only a question of
time. The cloakmakers’ strike is virtu
ally won. The busy season is coming
on, and the contractors can’t hold out
much longer. It has been a glorious
victory for the workingmen, because
they have won all the issues they strove
for.
“Eight hours are enough for any
workingman,” he continued wisely.
“Heneeds rest and recreation. He cau’l
get it by toiling away into the night foi
a mighty small wage. Next year we shall
see the cloakmakers in a moro inde
pendent. position than they have evei
been in before. ”
“What about the coal strike?”
“I can’t express any opinion about
the coal strike or the engineers’ strike
in London, as they are rather deep foi
me, "he said ingenuously. “I have no
one here to converse with who keepf
abreast of topics of general interest.
“The men around here, ” sweeping
his hand over the room, ‘ ‘ have so many
troubles of their own that they take but
little interest in matters that do no!
directly concern them. ”
The sad look about his big, wistful
eyes deepened.
“I hope that when their temporal
oondition is improved they will become
more enlightened and take more inter
est in their brother workingmen’ l
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the oondition of workers in other trades,
but far the present that is out of thi
question. ”
“Do yon hope to be a labor tatdef
some day?”
‘*No; I have no aspirations in that
direction, ”he answered frankly. “My
leanings are all toward the law, and 1
have set my heart on becoming a mem
ber of the bar. I have no doubt that atf
an attorney I could do no end of good
in helping the workers.
“I always had a love for things of •
legal nature, and the cases in the oourts,
both legal and civil, as reported in the
?kpera, deeply interest me.”—New
ork Journal.
ODDS AND ENDS.
An English typhoid fever patient ha*
been fined for leaving the hospital with*
out leave while sick.
Where Is Heaven?
"Perhaps the first question that pj*
sents itself regarding heaven is its loea
tion, ” writes Evangelist Dwight L
Moody in The Ladies’ Home JournaL
“For my part, I am not satisfied with
the vagueness that describes my future
homo as everywhere and nowhere. 1
read that the Master promised his dis
ciples an abode in his Father’s man
sions, whither he was going to prepare
them a place, and in the Revelation the
Apostle John described the ■wondrous
beauties of the city of God. The Evan
gelist Luke tells us that Christ ascended
from the little group of his disciples as
they followed him out toward Bethany
and that while they stood gazing up in
to heaven there appeared unto them two
messengers to cheer them with the
promise of his coming again, and so it
is with the child of God when the earth
ly pilgrimage is over. The soul ascends
to those mansions which Christ has gone
on before to prepare for those who love
him. The location of heaven is not an
important matter. Christ said very lit
tle about its situation, but a great deal
about its being with God. To be sure,
God is everywhere, but heaven is his
home; it is the Father’s house. It is
not the homestead that makes home the
most attractive place on earth, but it is
those who live there, and so it will b#
with heaven. ”
Women Bullfighters.
Two of the most popular and richest
bullfighters in Spain are women, the
sisters Lola and Angelica Pretel to wit,
natives of Brandenburg, in Germany. As
girls they were circus riders, and then
It occurred to their manager to mako
them toreras. The Pretel sisters were
successful from the beginning. Now
they are owners of a large troop, or
quadrilla, composed of women bande
rillos—fighters on foot—and picadors,
or horseback riders. They take this
troop from tow T u to town in Spain,
giving exhibitions wherever they are
booked during the season, which lasts
from May till October each year. Each
of these women earns about 500,000 pe
setas in a singlo season ( £25,000). Out
of this amount she must furnish all her
elaborate costumes, for indeed she is
dressed in “spangles and gold,” and
pay all expenses of the quadrilla. They
have a magnificent villa near Madrid,
with training quarters unsurpassed ii’
Spain.
A Bright American Girl.
Miss Marie McNaughton, who went
to Paris as stenographer and translator
with the peace commission, is a western
girl. She is the same youug woman
who passed the examination for trans
lator in the bureau of American repub
lics a year ago, and who, with another
young woman, Miss Mary Kirke, gets
the highest salary paid by the govern
ment for women —the sum of $2,500 a
year. She is a native of the state of
Michigan and is a young woman of
beauty and great charm of manner.—
Chicago Tribune.
* MAMMON WORSHIP.
A CLERGYMAN’S INDICTM ENT AGAINST
LATTER DAY CHRISTIANITY.
, * ' y .j*
What the Hatter Taught la Not Praetteed
or Taught Todaj—The Church Hae Sur
rendered to the Usurer*, and Chriefa
Command! Arc Forgotten.
It seems remarkably strange that so
few people understand the nature of the
crisis that is now on the world. Minis
ters of the gospel, of all men, ought to
comprehend it, but they do not. Notone
in a thousand does.
Any reflecting mind must see that
with the present surroundings—a con
tinuation of present systems of business
—that the world, society, will remain
as it is or grow worse.
There is no counteracting influence
in our form of Christianity of sufficient
force to remedy our evils. There is
nothing in the church now calculated
to bridge over the gulf between capital
and labor. The church unfortunately
approves and practices the originating
cause, the thing which digs the gulf
between Dives and Lazarus—viz, usury.
The practice of usury breeds poverty,
poverty demoralizes the masses, this,
hanging like a millstone about the neck
of society, depresses and drags down
with greater force than the uplifting
influence of the church.
Hence society is elevated as high as it
can be by our present defective form of
Christianity. It is a fact of universal
application that the religion of any peo
ple governs and molds the civil govern
ment of that people and fixes the condi
tion of society.
Our form of Christianity is responsi
ble for the status of society all over the
civilized world; hence a religion that
cannot lift society to a higher, better,
happier state than society now occupies
is not the religion which the world
needs, and it will be repudiated. Min
isters and all who study the Bible and
believe it must see that the churches
are not true exponents of the system of
religion or system of living tanght
and practiced by the Master. Ho taught
the world how to live. The church
teaches how to die.
The Sunday side of our religion is all
right The weekday side is not all
right. “Ephraim is an unturned cake.”
Our Christianity needs turning over.
We need, the world noeds, pure Chris
tianity, as taught and practioed by its
Founder and the early church. Pure
Christianity would lift society as high
as it could be in this world. “Oh,
fools, so slow of heart to believe all
that the prophets have written. ” The
trouble is, the church don’t believe,
teach nor practice all the Master taught.
It is no pleasure to be compelled to so
write.
The Master taught after this manner:
“If you love those that love you, what
thank have ye, for sinners also love
those that love them, and if you do
good to those that do good to yon what
thank have ye, for sinners also do even
the same. ” And then he adds the great
central law, rejected and ignored by
the church—viz: “And if ye lend to
them of whom ye hope to receive, what
thank have ye, for sinners also lend to
sinners to receive as much again. But
love ye your enemies, and do good and
lend, hoping for nothing again.” This
is as plain a command as any given by
the Master. No one can misunderstand
it. Yet who believes that Christ meant
that his followers should do it? Who
practices business on this line? The
church has lowered the standard, struck
its colors, surrendered to the god of
this world on this business question of
Mammon worship, so that the very men
tion of this as being required is scouted
and sneered at, and the man who pre
sumes to claim this course as a Chris
tian duty is ostracised, denounced and
called a crank, a lunatic or a fool.
But the apostles and early church
understood that their Master meant
business, and they practiced it. When
they sold houses and land, they laid the
money at the apostles’ feet, and distribu
tion was made so that none lacked any
thing. They were not compelled to sell,
as the case of Ananias shows, but the
tie of love and brotherhood was such
that they had all things common to the
extent that none were allowed to suffer
need.
This was no spasmodic movement
produced by persecution, as commenta
tors would have us believe, but it lasted.
Justin Martyr, who wrote about ICO
years after, said the church practiced
the same system.
This system taught by the Master
and practiced by the early church would
have prevented all poverty, all want,
for no one “lacked anything.” Such a
thing as a tramp would never have ex
isted, no homeless human, and the very
idea of millionaire never would have
entered in the brainpan of any one.
Poorhouses, paupers, souphouses, houses
of charity, jails, prisons, workhouses,
slavery,war, competition, tariffs, usury,
rents, speculation and the whole brood
of evils that ourse our world, born of
individualism, greed and selfishness,
would never have existed. The world
will come back to that happy state in
the coming ages, one oomrnon Father
above, one earthly family, one brother
hood and the music of life set to the
golden rule.—Rev. D. Oglesby.
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KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS.
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