The bricklayer does not criticise the clergyman for limiting his
YEAR'S output to forty sermons. He does not say to him, "You
are ABLE to preach fifty-two sermons a year. If you preach
only forty, you are dishonest and rob your parishioners."
What business is it of the clergyman's if the bricklayers, among
themselves, decide that it is better for them in the long run to
set only a given number of brick per day?
The trouble with some clergymen and many others is that they
forget one important thing--namely, THAT THE WORKINGMEN NOW
HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY.
When it comes to a question of laying brick, it is no longer the
squire or the local clergyman who decides what shall be done.
The BRICKLAYER DECIDES WHAT SHALL BE DONE.
And when it comes to carpenter work, the CARPENTER decides what
shall constitute a day's work.
In olden times the clergymen, the lawyers, the rich, the lucky
class in general, decided for THEMSELVES what THEY should do, and
then they decided for their so-called inferiors what those
INFERIORS should do.
Our prosperous class are having a very painful time indeed
getting into their minds the fact that such a thing as the right
of the majority REALLY EXISTS. And they find it very hard indeed
to believe that the doctrine of human equality is to be taken
seriously in matters of business.
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