Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-01

tempt to blow up the House OF Commons In
London threw tens OF thousands Of Irish out
of employment and livelihood. Torches in
this country applied to factories which cut
down wages; shotguns aimed at workmen
who take the place of hands resigned or
hands discharged for good or bad reason;
distractions put on railroad tracks before
midnight express trains because the offend.
ers do not like the president of the company;
strikes which leave the ship the hour it was
going to sail or the printing office the hour
the paper was to 60 to press or the coal
mines the day the coal was to be
delivered or the house scafolding the day
when their absence would make the builder
fail in bis contract-all these things have
given American labor heavy blow on the
head and crippled its arms and lsmed its
feet and pierced it through the heart. Take
the last great strike in America-the tele.
graph operators strickland the loss OF the
operators was 100000 and poorer wages
ever since. Neither sudden trap spring en-
ployers nor violence ever united the knots
from the knuckles oftoil or put more money
into the callous palm.
Barbarism Will Never Cure
the wrongs of civilization. Frederick the
Great wanted the property Of miller ad-
joining the grounds near Potsdam. The
king offered the miller three times the value
of the property. The miller would not sell
because it was the old homestead
and he felt about it as
Naboth did about his vineyard when mob
wanted it. Frederick the Great was a
rough and terrible man, and he ordered the
miller into his presence. The King flourish
ing stick with which he was sometimes
accustomed to strike the officers OF State,
said TO the miller: Il have offered you
three times the value of your property, and
f you will not sell it | will take it anyhow"
The miller replied calmly: Your Majesty
will not take it." "Yes, will yelled the
King Then replied the miller, 81 will
sue you before the Chsncery Court" Then
the King relinquished his demand. So the
most imperious of ou;rages against the poor
and the hard working shall cover before the
law. Wrongs will be righted, not by vic.
lence and against the law but by justice and
according to law.
Yet all attempts at reconciliation be.
and the two standing with their thumbs on
each others throat ready for strangulation,
It behouvts US TO
Look Elsewhere for Relief
And from my text it bounds out, roseate
and jubilsnt, and putting one hand on the
oroldcloth shoulder Of Capital puts the other
hand on the hOmespun covered shoulder OF
,,h hot
and gloriously settle every rything: "Whatso.
ever We would that men should do to you,dO
We even 10 them" That is, the lady of the
household would say Il must treat the
maid in the kitchen as | would like to be
treated if cooked and washed and swept
down stairs and she entertained in the par
lor." And the maid in the kitchen must
say: "It that lady up stairs seems more
fortunate than |, her prosperity is not TO be
set down as a fault, and will manage her
affairs with an industry sHd fidelity such
as | would expect from a subordinate if |
happened to be the wife Of a silk
over his resources and say: II mean TO do
the best for my employees that can and
will treat them in the matter OF wages as /
would like to be treated if turned the iron
bar in the furnace or stood at the factory
wheel or had my foot on the treadle." And
the toiler will say: Though my face be
amuched with the furnaces and my hand
hardened with the wheel | must be gen.
tleman and will not act as though my en-
ployer were an enemy, and will do my duty
among these wheels as well as though |
were up in the counting room among the
ledgers." The iron manufacturer having
taken dose of my text before he left home
in the morning, is walking through the
foundry and passing through the pudding
room" where are the men, besweated and
stripped to the waist, the employer: Good
morning, Donald, you look uncomfortable
in this heat hear your child is sick with
the scarlet fever. II you want to draw your
wages little early this week to buy medi'
cines and pay the nurse, just come into my
office Passing along into the finishing
ROOM" be sees young man very white and
pallid and hardly able to stand up to his
work, and the employer says: Il guess you
don't feel very we'll 10 day; better rest lit
lie once in while What are you taking
for this illness? Call at my house to night
and will give you a vial OF medicine that
will set you right up" Thank you" says
the work. man as he sweeps his arm across
his forehead, taking off the beads Of sweat,
for God knows be is more fit to be in bed
ban there.
After Awhile
crash goes the money market and the de
mabd Tor manufactured goods ceases, and
he question is whether to shut up the mill,
or run on half time, or lower the wages.
The boss calls all his hands together. They
stand around him wondering what he is 90,
ing 10 do BE says Men, the times are
hard, the demand for our work is very
small. Where used to make hundred
dollars, | don't make twenty. You see |
am under great expense here. Now, what
shall do? hate to close up and throw
you out Of employment, for you have been
very faithful and like you, and you seem
TO like me, and you have families TO support,
and the BARNS must be taken care OF and
the wife must have new dress before long.
What shall doY' Silence for minute or
two, and then one Of the workmen steps for
ward little from the rest and says: boss
YOU have been good TO us. When yol pros
pered we prospered; now, when you
are bard pressed, propose
that If you will keep the
place open we throw off twenty per cent Of
our wages and as soon as times get better
YOU will remember U.s. Boys, all in favor OF
nv motion will say sye1 Aye! ayeF shout
two hundred voices After while the
manufacturer, while getting in some new
machinery takes cold aud falls sick ofthe
pneumonia. In the procession to the tomb
are the workmeu with sad faces, the tears
running clear down the cheeks and of on
the ground, and their wives and children
have been waiting an hour at the open
grave in the cemetery for the arrival OF the
funeral pageant. The minister may have
delivered eloquent elogium, but the most
impressive utterances are By the working
classes who stand around the last resting
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