The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, February 07, 1908, Image 7
LAW VIOLATED IN BOYCOTTS Is Decision Handed Down by United States Supreme Court. LABOR UNIONS ARE HIT Third Important Decision Within a Month Adverse to Orgaaizations-Hat Company Wins Case. Monday, for the third time within a month, the supreme court of the United States promulgated an opinion construing laws adversely to the con tentions of organized labor. The 'first of the decisions was ren dered on January 6, in the case of some railway employees who sought to secure damages under wnat is known as the “employers’ liability law,” mak ing railroads responsible for injuries resulting from the negligence of fellow servants, which law the court held to be unconstitutional. The second im portant finding in this line was an nounced on the 23rd of January, when the Erdman arbitration act, forbidding the discharge of employees because they are members of labor unions, was also declared to be invalid. The verdict rendered Monday was in the case of Lawlor vs. Loewe, the former a member of the Hatters’ Un ion, and the latter a hat manufac turer of Danbury, Conn. The case in volved the applicability of the seventh section of the Sherman anti-trust law to conspiracies by labor unions to boy cott articles entering into interstate trade. Under the terms of that pro vision the complaining party may col lect three times the amount of his loss if the charge is sustained. The union fought the case on the ground that the law was inapplicable to such organization, but the court, whose opinion was announced by Chief Jus tice Fuller, failed to accept tills view, and, in effect, held that the unions could not be permitted to interfere by boycott with the free exchange of commerce between the states. There was no dissenting opinion. The suit was instituted by Loewe & Co. in the United States circuit court for the district of Connecticut. The company alleging damages by boycott against their factory to the extent 'of SBO,OOO asked for a judgment of $240,- 000 in accordance with the terms of the Sherman act: Not only the members of the Hatters’ Union, but the American Federation of Labor, were included in the bill. In the complaint it was alleged that the labor organization had undertaken to compel the manufacturers to unionize their fatcory, and it was asserted when they failed in this effort the un ion hatters withdrew and induced other employees to do so. This act was fol lowed by the declaration of a boycott, which extended to many states and which, in the language of the bill, •constituted a combination to limit and restrain interstate commerce. The case arose over a strike in Loewe’s hat factory in Danbury, Conn., in 1901, and the inauguration of a boycott by the United Hatters of North America, in which the American Fed eration of Labor joined by putting Loewe on the “unfair list.” Loewe & Co. brought suit under the anti-trust law against 200 members of the Hat ters’ Union living- in Danbury, claim ing SBO,OOO damages to their business through the boycott, which they charg ed constituted a conspiracy in restraint of trade. The unions advertised their boycott against this firm in labor or gans in different parts of the country, and in consequence the firm claimed that its business fell off outside the state. Actions were brought at differ ent places, notably at San Francisco. TWO PRISONERS BREAK JAIL. Murderer and Safe Cracker Escape From Tower in Atlanta. The first important jail delivery from the tower in Atlanta since it was com pleted in 1896 occurred early Monday morning, when two white prisoners, John Harper, charged with murdering Sheriff Keith of Murray county and Ceorge Barton, who was held for safe blowing in Taliaferro county, in some mysterious manner escaped from their •cells, then from the strongly locked cage, and lastly sawed their way to liberty through an outside window. The men were confined on the third floor, and let themselves to the ground iby means of four blankets tied to gether. ( IHE PULPIT. A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY DR. T. H. WHITE. Subject: Preparing to Receive Bless* ing. London.—A very practical address was given at the opening of Keswick Convention. The sermon preached by Dr. T. j-L White befitted so pre paratory a gathering. Attention was directed to Luke 22:11: “The Mas ter saith, Where is the guest cham ber, that I may eat the passover with My disciples?” and with this passage was coupled Rev. 3:20: “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hear My voice and open the door, I will come in and sup w r ith him, and he with Me.” Our Lord was looking for the guest chamber, and is seeking for it. Will He find it in each of our hearts? The w T ord translated “guest cham ber” also occurs in the story of the nativity, Luke 2:7: “And she brought forth her first born son, and wrapped Him in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger, for there was no room for Him in the inn.” If your heart is only as an. inn, Christ is seeking to make it a guest cham ber, where 1-Ie will be the Guest. He will only make your heart and mind the guest chamber on one condition —He must be the only Guest, and must have the preparation of the chamber in His own hands. A remarkable word appears in Prov. 4:23: “Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the is sues of life.” The heart of man is mentioned nearly nine hundred times in God’s Book, and chiefly in three connections. First we have Gen. 6:5: "God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and ihat every imagination of the thought of his heart was only evil continually.” In the New Testament the same thought occurs: “Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart.” (Luke 2:19.) In both these passages we have one f?.ct emphasized—the heart in connection w'ith the intellect of man. Turn to Deut. 6:5: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy might;” and to 1 Pet. 1:22: "Love one another with a pure heart fervently”—the heart in connection with the affections. Look at Dan. 1: 8: "But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile him self with the king’s meat;” also Acts 11:23: “That with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord” — the heart in connection with the will. It is plain, therefore, that by "the heart of man” w r e mean the place where his intellect, affections and will are focused; the centre of the intellectual, loving, purposeful self in every one. If we want a picture of what we are naturally, we have it here: “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked;” and “out of the heart pro ceed evil thoughts,” etc. Yet what ever the condition of every heart, Christ is seeking to make it His guest chamber. Are we willing to allow Him to do this? Have we responded to the in vitation: “My son, give Me thine heart” —the heart looked at from the three standpoints we have no ticed? Have we surrendered our thinking, loving and purposing pow ers to Him? It may be that some one has come to Keswick with the desire to know what is taught here, because you have an idea that it does not fit in with your theological position. God wants your intellect. Are you willing to give Him your speculations, your criticisms of His word and His mes sengers? Are you willing to make the confession of the Psalmist your own: “Lord, my heart is not lifted up, nor mine eyes lofty; neither do I exercise myself in great matters or in things too high for me?” Shall we not begin this convention right with God by yielding our hearts that He may, cleanse the chamber and make it fit for Him to dwell in? Our intellects, affections and wills given to Him, the lower we get be fore Him the deeper will be our union and communion with Him. Are we willing to do His will? If not are we willing to be made will ing? Running through the life of every child of God are two great forces— Divine will and human will. So long as they are side by side, all is well; but ofttimes your will and the will of the Master cross, and then there is a stop, and this is where you find it necessary to die to self. The Chris tian life means the intellect, affec tions and will made over absolutely to the Master, that He may do what seemeth Him good. And what will He do? He will take full possession of the guest chamber, turning the searchlight of His Holy Spirit into every corner. But He does this, not all at once, but gradually, as we are able to bear the light revealing the sinful thing, need ing the Blood that it may be removed. Then He takes His own wondrous Word and enlightens it by His Spirit; and we come to know what is His will for us, and that the enlightened Word will fashion our lives. There is no pattern in the Word of God for the child of God but the Son of God. What times we are living in! In our morning papers the first thing one notices seems some indication of the coming of the Lord. And if He is coming soon, what does He want from you and me? You recall His last recorded words: “Ye shall re ceive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you, and ye shall be My witnesses.” Never since that day has there been more need of wit nesses to Him than at the present time. He may have called you to Keswick to teach you ho" to be a witness to Him. We shall be wit nesses unto Him exactly in propor tion as our hearts are the Master’s guest chambers, for only as He lives in us can He work through us His wondrous, gracious, loving purpose. And what is that purpose? "Whom He did foreknow', He also did pre destinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first born among many breth ren.” As He dwells in you He will shine forth, and be through you a witness to Himself. So, being cleansed, sanctified, and indwelt *iy the Master, we shall be what He de sires we should be, witnesses unto Him. - God’s Love Illustrated. By the Rev. Adam Reoch. It is astonishing how long it takes us to grasp and believe in some of the oft-repeated statements in God’s word. We may pride ourselves on the power of our intellect and the thoroughness of our training, and with it all we may. for a score of years, blunder past the most comfort ing truth. Take, for example, the text, "If ye, then being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, now' much more shall your heavenly Fath er give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him?” The truth and blessed ness of that text came home to me in a most forcible way quite lately. Dur ing weeks of trouble and darkness faith had stumbled along, seeing not a ray of light. The awful words of Christ, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?” seemed the only words in Scripture that suited my case. It was not the experience of a moment, but of weeks, and long con tinued, growing out of the severest loss one can be called upon to un dergo. The light came in this way: My little boy had become much inter ested in the nrevailing fad, the usu of roller skates. He had come to mo repeatedly, just for money for a new pair, and then for more to repair and improve, until it seemed tljat I could give him no more. One afternoon ho showed me the skates and pointed out that the rear wheels were well worn down. He did not ask me for any money; perhaps he did not ex pect any, but he said in a soliloquiz ing way, “I can get a new pair of wheels for fifteen cents.” I saw the heart laid bare, the longing, the tim idity—my heart said, “Go ahead and get them.” I could not possibly keep from finishing out his happiness, and it seemed a privilege to do it. Then it seemed as if a voice of reproof came through my heart, as if the very w'ords of the text were uttered —“lf ye then bring evil, know how to give good gifts unto your chil dren,” etc. Oh, how it humbled me! I had actu ally thought God to be less concerned for me and my happiness than I was for that of my own boy. In the light of the warmth in my own heart for my own boy, I saw the faint reflec tion of that mighty love of God for me, His child, and I realized as never before that He will not withhold any gift that is good, that He will not do aught save what is for our very best. But how long it takes us to see it! May He forgive us for our conceit, our distrusts and our repining.—■ From Sabbath Reading. Dr. Frank Crane’s Epigrams. The end of true culture is peace tvith one’s self; to have established a modus vivendi; not to be blown about between good and bad, but to have a practicable path' through the mystery of things. We begin life as little animals; we should end as great souls. All inward unhappiness can be definitely traced to selfishness; no unselfish person can be thoroughly unhappy. The selfish man is pitted against a selfish world, infinitely stronger than he, and against which he has no hope of success. When a selfish man succeeds in becoming happy, it is only at the price of the unhappiness of others. Life is too short and the prizes of selfishness too close and too alluring; you canuot hope to attain nobility without belief in heaven and God. There is no happiness so long as we are impatient. There is an element of vulgarity in any jewelry. The savage Indian in his tent of skins, and the multi-millionaire in his mess of bric-a-brac, are equally removed from true culture. Nobility lies in the difficult middle way. To read books that require no mental effort is time lost. The careful and thorough reading of newspapers is the surest way to vulgarize the mind. Any sort of self-assertion by voice, dress, manner or any other way, is vulgar. Nothing is so vulgar as idleness. The idle rich in every age of the world have become cold-hearted and cruel. And to envy or to rail at the idle rich shows a vulgar mind. The inan who works Sundays does nothing of any consequence other days. Our attitude to money is a sure test of culture; we should neither love it nor hate It, horde it nor waste it, worship it nor despise it; we should appreciate it for what it can do and realize what it cannot do. We speak of elevating the lower classes; my experience is that it is the upper classes that need elevating. There is no culture possible with out conversion, because culture is es sentially unselfishness, and that is born in none, or few. —From sermon preached by Dr. Frank Crane, Union Church, Worcester, Mass. Probably nothing makes a girl so angry as the failure of some other girl to notice the new engagement ring. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM MENTS FOR FEBRUARY 0. Subject: Jesus and the Woman of Samaria, John 4:1-42 —Golden Text, John 7:37—Commit Verses 23, 24 —Commentary. TIME. December, A. D. 27. PLACE.—Sychar. EXPOSITION.—I. Jesus reveals Himself ns the Messiah to the woman of Samaria, 19-20. The woman of Samaria had said to Jesus, “Give me this water, i. e., the living water (v. 15; cf. vs. 10, 13 and 14). Jesus will answer this prayer, but first the wom an must bo brought to realize that she is a sinner. Conviction of sin usually precedes the reception of the Holy Spirit. So Jesus aimed a sharp thrust at her conscience, "Go call thy husband” (v. 16). It was effective. Heart and life were laid bare. She briefly answered, “I have no hus band.” But little did she know how .Tesus would drive the answer home to her own conscience (vs. 16-18). The woman tried to parry the thrust by engaging Jesus in a theological dis cussion. This is a common method used by men when we try to drive home to them a conviction of tlieir own sin. They seek to ease their conscience by drawing us into a dis cussion on some side theological is sue. The woman failed in her at tempt. .Tesus’ ansvfer to her question went even more deeply to the need of her soul. It was beginning to dawn upon the woman that Jesus was a prophet indeed. He had read her heart. Jesus showed her the utter formality and worthlessness of all her worship of which she had made her boast. The standing controversy be tween the Jews and the Samaritans was whether they should worship at Mt. Zion or Mt. Gerizim (v. 20). Jesus shows to the woman that this is not the real question at issue. The question is not where we shall wor ship, but how we shall worship. These are strong words with which Jesus exposed the hollowness of the worship of this woman and her fellow Samaritans, “Ye worship ye know not what,” but the words are equally true of much modern co-called Chris tian worship. “Salvation is from the Jews.” To them were committed the oracles of God (Rom. 3:2). Of them the Christ, the Saviour of the world, is born according to the flesh (Rom. 1:3). The Jews were the first her alds of a crucified and risen Saviour, in whom salvation is offered to all men. The world owes to the Jews a debt that it can never repay. But while salvation is from the Jews, the Jews as a people have rejected it. The Heavenly Father is seeking wor shipers (v. 23, R. V.) God is seeking not only those who will serve Him and obey Him, but those who will worship Him. He does not find many worshipers, though He is seeking them. Prayer is not worship. Thanks giving is not worship. Worship is bowing before God in adoring con templation of Himself. “In our pray ers we are taken up with our needs; in our thanksgiving we are taken up with our blessings; in our worship we are taken up with Himself,” and He is seeking worshipers. Does He find one in you? And God is seeking only one kind of worshipers, those who worship in spirit, that is, in the Holy Spirit, and in truth, that is, in reality, not in mere pretense (cf. Phil. 3:3, It. V.). The flesh seeks to intrude into every sphere and even into the sphere of worship. But the worship which the flesh prompts is not acceptable to God. We are absolutely dependent upon the Holy Spirit to teach us how to worship and to lead us into accept able worship. God is a spirit, not a mere outward form. Though God is spirit in His essential essence, He does manifest Himself in visible form (Ex. 24:9, 10; 33:18, 23), and the glad day is coming when the pure in heart shall see Him (Matt. 5:8; 1 John 3:2). The woman knew (hat the Messiah was coming and was waiting until He came to tell her all things. He, indeed, is the one who does tell us all things, but He •was already there. Jesus makes one of the clearest and most unmistaka ble declarations that He is the Mes siah to this outcast Samaritan wom an, “I that speak unto thee am He.” 11, The Sanjaritan woman ligcQmes a witness for her new-found Saviour, 27, 29. The disciples were greatly surprised that He talked with a wom an. Women are of no more account in the eyes of some men to-day than they were in the eyes of the disciples. The disciples ought not to have been surprised that Jesus talked with a woman, a Samaritan and a sinner, if they had only stopped to think that He had condescended to talk with them. The woman, however, does not wait. She hurries into the city to tell others the good news. In her eagerness she even forgets to take her waterpot with her. She came out. to get a waterpot full of water and she went back with a whole well in her heart (cf. v. 14). When one real ly finds Jesus he is willing to leave all that he may go and tell others about Jesus. Her message to the men of the city was the old gospel mes sage, “Come.” And what were they to come and do? “See a man.” That is what we most need —to see Jesus (cf. 1:29). She sums up what Jesus had done in a short sentence, “Ho told me all things that ever I did.” And then asks the question, “Is not this the Christ?” Could there be any better proof that He was the Christ? She brought the whole town to the Saviour (vs. 40-42). LEADING QUESTIONS. What does this lesson teach us as to how to deal with souls? What does it teach us about Jesus? What doe 3it teach about God? What does it teach about worship? What does it teach about testimony? ACTION URGED BY ROOSEVELT Oil Some Important Lcgisation Which He Pais Up to Congress. A SPECIAL MESSAGE President Surprises Lawmakers and the Country in Strong Recommendations of Remarkable Document. President Roosevelt sent to congress a special message Friday which is, In reality an uncomprosmislng and categorical review of his administra tive policies, an analysis of their meaning and the necessity for their existence and a vigorous attack upon crlticls who have sought to discredit the administration campaign against commercial corruption, or to hold it responsible for the recent panic. He omits no single phase of the war against “predatory wealth,’’ points out the interest of every citizen in decent government, dwells on the prime ne cessity of railroad and corporation reg ulation, touches on federal and state functions in this direction and on the question of jailing or fining malefac tors of “great wealth.” He calls cor porations and individuals by name with unerring fluency. The president calls for the immedi ate re-enactment of the employers’ liability law, which has been declar ed unconstitutional, in such form as will meet the requirements of the su mtune court. He depends upon the respective states to do tlieir part to ward fulfilling the duties of which the .federal government is deprived. He also urges that an act be passed compensating government employees injured in public service. “It is all wrong.” says Mr. Roose velt, ‘to use the injunction to prevent the entirely proper and legitimate ac tions of labor organizations in their struggle fur industrial betterment, or under the guise of protecting property rights unwarrantably to invade the fundamental rights of the individual.” He promises to send a special mes sage to congress on the case of Adair vs. the United States, the effect of which is far-reaching, but which of ficers of tho government have not yet had the opportunity to study in all its bearings. The president would give the inter state commerce commission the right to pass on any rate or practice of the railroads on its own initiative. He would al3o give the government super vision over the financial affairs of in terstate railroads, to the end that over capitalization might be avoided, specu lation eliminated and bond proceeds devoted only to legitimate purposes. He declares that overcapitalization al ready of fixed value must be recognized as affecting thousands of innocent shareholders. Many rates, he contends, are already too low, and it is better in the interest of imperative improve ments that earnings should be too liberal rather than insufficient. The Sherman anti-trust law, he says, calls for immediate amendment. In Its - present shape it is entirely unfitted to meet the conditions cf today, often tending to produce the very evils it aims to suppress. The president speci fies certain combinations which are lawful and expedient for the railroads. The president attacks stock and mar ket gambling in strong terms. The message created a great deal of comment among the nation’s law makers. The president’s friends com mend it enthusiastically. Some of the talks in the cloak room and corri dors turned upon a third term for Roosevelt and discussed this action as a bid for support from those who be lieve President Roosevelt is the only man with the determination, grit and perseverance to fight through congress the aggressive policies outlined in the special message. It came as a surprise that the presi dent should send another message to congress calling for further corporate regulations; particularly since he reifr erated his old recommendations in his December message. In the senate the message was heard in decorous si lence. In the house it was continuously applauded, particularly the reference to punishment of wrongdoers and his de fense of federal judges. “A splendid democratic doctrine,” said Senator Jeff Davis. “A bid for a third term,” said Representative Clay ton of Alabama. Senator Davis mov ed that 10,000 copies of the message be printed and the motion wa a adopted.