St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-06-20

| they shut the book in exultation and say:
GOOD for him." They stamp the foot in
regard to those people and say just the
opposite of ''Save the laboring classes"
| Their sympathies are with "Shylock"
rather than with "Antonio" and 'Portla."
| Plutocrats, their feelings are simply IN
fernal. They are irritation and irasclblll-
| ty, and toward the settlement of this I'M
broglio between labor and capital they
will give not the tip end of the little finger.
BAD MOVES.
The assassins of Lord Frederick Caven-
dish and Mr.. Burke in Phoenix Park, Dub
lin, Ireland, in hoping to avenge Ireland,
turned from that afflicted land the sympa-
thies of millions of people. The recent at
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; shot-guns aimed at
workmen who take the place of hands re-
signed or hands discharged, for good or
bad reasons; distractions put on railroad
tracks before midnight express trains, be-
cause the offenders do not like the Presi-
dent of the company; strikes which leave
the ship,the shour it was going to sail, or
the printing-office the hour the paper was
to go to press, or the coal-mines the day
the coal was to be delivered, or the house
scaffolding the day when their absence
would make the builder fail in his contract
all these things have given American
labor heavy blow on the head, and Grip
pied it's arms and famed it's feet, and pierced
it through the heart Take the last great
strike in America--the telegraph opera
tors strickland the loss to the operators
was 100000, and poorer wages ever since.
Neither sudden trap sprung by employers
nor violence ever united the knots from the
knuckles of toll or put more money into
the callous palm. Barbarism will never
cure the wrongs of civilization. Frederick
the Great wanted the property of miller
adjoining 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 Ahab wanted it. Fred
erick the Great was d rough and terrible
man, and he ordered the miller into his
presence. The King, fourishing a stick
with which he was sometimes accustomed
to strike the officers of State, said to the
miller: 81 have offered you three times
the value of your property, and if you will
not sell it / will take it anyhow" The
miller replied, calmly: "Your Majesty
will not take it." 'tYes, 1 WILL" yelled
the King. "Then," replied the miller, II
will sue you before the Chancery Court"
Then the King relinquished his demand.
So the most imperious of outrages against
| the poor and the hard working shall cover
before the law. Wrongs will be righted,
not by violence and against the law, but
according to law.
WHERE TO LOOK FOR RELIEF.
Yet all attempts at reconciliation be-
tween labor and capital so far having
failed, and the two standing with their
thumbs on each others throat ready for
stranguIation, it behooves us to look else
where for relief. And from my text it
bounds out, roseate and jubilant, and put
ting one hand on the broadcloth shoulder
of Capital, puts the other hand on the
homespun- covered shoulder of Toll, and
says with voice that will finally and
gloriously settle every thing: Whatso-
ever ye would that men should do to you,
do ye even so to them.n That is, the lady
| of tho household will say: must treat
the maid in the kitchen as I would like to
be treated if I cooked and washed and
swept down stairs and she entertained in
the parlor." And the maid in the kitchen
must say: g If that lady upstairs seems
more fortunate than /, her prosperity is
not to be set down as fault, and I will
manage her affairs with an industry and
fidelitysuch as would expect from q SUBJ
AL 10 he iFn of
silk importer" The manufacturer will
look over his resources and say: ~ mean
to do the best for my employees
that can, and I will treat them
in the matter of wages as | would like
to be treated if I turned the iron bar
in the furnace or stood at the factory
wheel or had my foot on the treadle.a And
the toiler viii say Though my face be
smirched with the furnaces and my hand
hardened by the wheel, must be a gentle
man, and will not act as though my en-
ployer were an enemy, and will do my
duty among these wheels as well as though
I were up in the counting groom among the
ledgers.n The iron manufactures having
taken a dose of my text before he left
home n the morning is walking through
the foundry and passing through the
"puddling where are men be-
sweated and stripped to the waist. The
employer says: ''G1od morning, Donald;
you look uncomfor able in this heat. |
hear your child is sick with the scarlet
fever. II you want.to draw your wages a
little early this week to buy medicines and
pay the nurse just come into my office"
Passing along into the finishing ROOM"
he sees a young man very white and pallid
and hardly able to stand up to his work,
and the employer says: 81 guess you
don't feel very well to-day; better rest a