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Show A FIFTEEN-YEAH-OLD ECHO. . Last Friday night at Mr. Carnegie's great man- sion in New York, 300 guests assembled at a banquet. . Among them were ninety-two of the leaders of the Homestead strike or lockout. Among them "William Weikle, leader of the big Homestead strike in S2. . ' It is said that Mr. Carnegie ind Mr, "Weikle are the besjt of friends, all of which is good. to hear. But why did not Mr. Carnegie take the trouble to fix things up at the time t It would have made large differences dif-ferences with the whole United States, because it was the clamor that grew but of that strike, or lock-out, lock-out, that elected Mr. Cleveland President. The Dem-1 ocratic party. pictured those men. as poor wretches being ground under the heel of a merciless capitalist. It is true that just when the lockout came they were receiving three times as much pay as any men in like occupations were receiving anywhere around this big world., They were men who did piece work and worked machines of the big plant. At immense expense the old machines were thrown out and new ones installed by which two or three times as much work could be performed as could be by the old machines. ma-chines. . ' The request 6f the managers was to these men, who had contracts, that they would reduce their contracts con-tracts to apply to the new machines, receiving the same pay they did before. They refused, hence the lockout, but that lockout was published to the world as an act . of unmitigated cruelty to poor laboring men. Many of these "poor laboring men" went to the works every morning in carriages and carriages waited for them fivery night to take them home, and Mr. Crisp the next winter, who headed the committee commit-tee of the .House of Representatives to investigate the business, was obliged to report that these poor downtrodden wretches were at the time of the lockout lock-out receiving a wage rate higher than any other men . in the world, higher than he ever heard of men receiving re-ceiving while working at the same work. ylt is good that Mr. Carnegie has made up with these men, but he cannot make good what happened after the election of Mr. Cleveland. Not many wrongs are righted in this world 'ffny-way, 'ffny-way, avhen we some to looking over the whole lot. - CHURCH OF CHRIST IS ON TRIAL EVERYWHERE FROM MISSIONARY'S ADDRESS v- CHICAGO. April 8. "The one thing needful In missionary work la more sincerity sin-cerity not more prayers, but deeper ones." This was the Mea set forth last nlg-ht by Robert E. Speer of New York, president presi-dent of the board of foreign missions, ppeaklng at the interchurchmen's ban-duet ban-duet In the Auditorium hotel. LThe primary ' object of the gathering as to further the laymen's missionary movement, and lay the ground for giving Chicago one of the district cretary-Shlpa. cretary-Shlpa. The guests numbered 263, of all denominations. Mr. Speer was the guest of honor, his subject being "The One Thing Needful." I J. Campbell White of Pittsburg, general gen-eral secretary of the laymen's movement, (poke on "Increasing the Output." "The whole business of the whole church is to preach the whole gospel to the wools world.", he said, j "There are at present 5000 missionaries. There ought to be 20.000. The church tnust be lifted ip to a more intelligent tonceptlon. The gospel of Christ ought to be made absolutely universal during Ihe next twenty years." "Cultivating the Field" was the topic lscussed by C. C. Michenor of New York, general secretary of the Toung reople'a movement. He said: "Something radical must be done If the Church Is to keep up Its end in the non-Christian non-Christian world. The church of Christ is now on trial, everywhere. The central West of America is producing larger .results .re-sults In missionary work than any other field." I Dr. J. C. K. McClure. president of the McCormick Theological seminary, was toastmaster. I , V |