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THE QUIET HOUR
The Sordid Order Of Exploiters.
Did you have one when you were a child? They were red
and yellow; with loose-jointed legs and arms. When you pulled
tin* string the legs and arms were jerked into ail kinds uL' grotesipi
positions, and you laughed at its antics. It was only a jumping
jack, and you made it go through its motions merely lor your en
tertainment and amusement without having any other interest in
it. There was no harm in that. The red and yellow wooden
monkey was not affected l>y it for weal or woe.
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Hut there is a difference when you come to adopt the jump
ing jack method and attitude in your dealings with ‘‘real people.”
There is a word which admirably expresses this method of
dealing with others—the word "Exploit.” The dictionary says:
To exploit others is to utilize or employ them in our own
selfish schemes, to bring out for one's own advantage without re
gard to rights or right.
Our brother-man becomes a mere thing which we use to gain
our ends and in whose welfare we have no further interests.
It is a sort of blasphemy against human nature, this ignoring
of others’ claims upon us; this smothering of every suggestion of
brotherliness and fellow-feeling, and using them as mere tools, of
value so long as they can advance our selfish ends, and after that
discarding them as so much worn out machinery ready for the junk
pile.
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Over again all this sordid adoption of the jumping jack
theory of our relation to others, the great philosopher Kant laid
down the rule:
“Always treat humanity, whether in yourself or another, as
a person, and never as a thing.’’
Whatever may be the special relation in which men happen
to stand; employer and employee merchant and customer; leader
and follower, it must always be remembered that there is a still
higher relation between them—they are brothers, and where the
claims of the two relationships tthreaten to conflict, the latter
must be recognized as supreme
No man has the right merely to use other men. C-limbers who
reach their money or ambitions goal by trampling upon human
souls are as truly blood-stained as arc the brutal plantation own
ers of southern Mexico in their slaughter of their Yaqui slaves.
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Just here is to be found the essence of the strongest argument
against the saloon business.
It is inevitably a soul-traffic, more truly than was that of
the old Arab slaves. It goes up in the scale of prosperity only
as souls go down in the scale of humanity. It thrives on ruin. It
no more surely, requires crushed apples to make cider than it re
quires cluirslied lives to make saloon profits. It treats men as
things to be exploited, as jumping jacks to perform their fantas
tic antics to gratify others' whims. It ignores completely the high
er brother-relation, and crushes ail of the humanity out of men
for the sake of cash.
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And just here also is to be found the explanation of moat
of the troubles of modern “big business.’’
Every employer -whether it he in the case of mistress and
maid in the home, or of the great corporation whose working force
numbers thousands who is intent only upon securing the max
imum service in return for the minimum wages or, for that
matter, in return for liberal wages—and wlm ignores the fact that
the hands and feet that serve him are but the physical equip
ment of an Immortal sold, and that the soul of a sister or
brother violates the higher code which Christ has set up, and
inevitably precipitates all the social troubles that follow.
I sing gold watches to drive in railway spikes is the faintest
shadow of a parallel to using immortal souls to make millions
without any recognition of the higher relation in which we stand
to those souls. The empolycr of men who think of them only as
‘ hands’’—never as souls—is as truly a pirate in spirit as was
Captain Kidd. To look upon the wage-earners whose service is
swelling your fortune merely as paving blocks on your pathway
to “Easy St..’’ and to ignore the human obligations, your relation
to them entails upon you, 'is to break all ten commandments at
once. No orthodoxy in theology can save such a man from the
hell to which his heterodoxy in social ethics will consign him.
Men and women, endowed for everlasting existence, are not
jumping jacks made to dance to the tune of others’ whims; but
comrades on the pathway to immortality whose progress toward
the blessed goal you are under Christ-fixed bonds to help — and
not to binder.
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One phase of the prevalent exploiting of humanity is some
times found in the psychology-gore-to-seed theories of the modern
business world.
I picked up a rather pretentious volume on advertising recent
ly in which this theory was worked out to the limit. Summarized
its teachings emphasized tin* importance of working what might
aptly he described as “a psychological bluff.” Study human na
ture and its mental processes so that you may be able to coin your
fellow s loibles into ducats, is this gospel of gain. Your brothers
idiosyncrasies and points of easiest approach are to be discovered
not that you may lend him a helping hand in life and protect
him against himself, but in order that you may turn these4hings
to your own advantage. One of the current magazines has an ably
written article embodying Ibis same thought. Its title tells the
whole story. It is, "Politeness a Business Asset.” Of course,
politeness is a business asset, it will make you more popular, add
to your chances of promotion, and all that, but that man has got
ten down a few stories below the basement in the structure of
human graces and fraternal courtesy who practice these virtues
because "they pay,” rather thai from the noble prompting of a
kindly heart. You will be more popular and get on more rapidly
in life if you do not murder your mother, but if your ambition
is the only thing that saves your mother it would be a wise pre
caution to electrocute you at once
The moment my attitude toward my fellows is determined
merely by “what there is in it for me.” instead of by the claims
of a broad and Christ-like humanity, I have joined the Sordid or
der of exploiters and stand ready to make merchandise of immor
tal souls. They are merely painted mannikins to me, and all
the movements of their arms and legs are made to gratify my
whims.
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