The Labor enquirer., 1883-12-01

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down below ) hyipi wa he enfinge,
upon that working nan's night to thi
means Of life, and that then it becomes tn
right Of the workman 70 compel the master
to give him sufficient to maintain himself
Here lies the moral right of the striker t
prevent the employer from having his worl
done by cheaper slaves, who are made les
manly than their striking brothers BY
greater want and by perhaps actual hunger
If an employer cannot pay living wages t.
his workmen, it is his privilege, and duty
to close his wtablishment and senovs from
the competition Of more thrifty employers
his wares, rather than further depreciate
the market, both for products and labor
by cutting wages and prices The cold
blooded commercial man might argue that
idle capital and idle hands should be on q
par, but when an advocate of the doctrines
of Jesus Christ fails to accord special rights
to the hungry and naked, he has failed to
properly take in the lesson of the good
Samaritan. y
The doctor says that when the striking
employees declare that others shall not take
their places at wages lower than they de-
mand, it becomes the duty of the authori-
ties to say to the strikers, Hands off or
hands up!o Militia; powder and lead.
Here's your Christianity; here's your God
like teaching The average employer hear
ing, this, said, There's our man; under the
prirstiy ciuak ne VIII neIpus TO buHdoze
those unruly yagabonds. The true man,
who has suffered long from this kind Of
thing, said, "And building stands in
which man{f) utters such cold -blooded
thoughts as these in land where dynamite
is only AZ cents a pound
The country pulpit is an apostle of
Beecher's in more ways than one.
DR.. Moore says that strikes are a relic of
the barbarous ages, and the average striker
no better than barbarian. We are fast
drifting back into a worse than barbaric
state, which can only be ayerted by one
great strike, andiwhichiis being hastened
by the growing power of the Satanic Great
ures which this man Mooreso ably repre-
Hsented last Sunday night.
He referred to the striketof 1877, in
Pennsylvania, pointing to bloodshed caused
by the strike of workingmen.5 Every man
who knows the history of that trouble
knows that the strikers were peaceable and
law-abiding until the militia were;marched
onto the ground to intimidate them; this
same militia committed the only murders
of that memorable affair--their victims
being weak women and children, who were
harmless lockers on at the grandeur of the
state troops marching through the streets
of Pittsburg. ... sd
DR.. Moore has learned well the lesson of
misrepresenting circumstances so as to
throw the blame upon the victims of the
-deyilish ayarice of the men for: whom. he
breaches. He knows how to pose as a man
between the two-labor and capital who
claims to show the duties and the weak
nesses of both, but manages always to score
in vindictive style the poor and lowly
tolier, while he slides over the hellishness
and crime of the man with money
There might be found some palliation for
this miserable prejudice in the fact that the
doctor knows little of the actual trials and
miseries of the wage-slave, having never
been compelled to earn his daily bread,
were it not for the fact that he claims to be
a disciple of the humble carpenter whose
teachings were that he who worked none
neither should he eat, implying that he
who worked always should eat plentifully
So far as trades unions and their princi-
plies are concerned, the doctors knowledge
seems confined to what he has learned of
Joe Medill, their bitter enemy, whose paper
he quotes from his pulpit
II DR.. Moore's church is dedicated to the
cause of the rich man, then let the scales
be placed at the door and each mans pos
sessions be put to the test before" he is al
lowed to enter, and no laboring man will
saysaught of the pastors utterances; but SO
long as its doors are open to all classes, and
he presumes to handle without gloves the
toiling classes, it's ''our bull that's gored,"
and he may expect as good as he gives.