The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-10


Eqslize conditions and every motive 10 effort
dies IN the breast OF man. The sweat OF the brow,
NO west OF inc GTain neyeI SoG0s deed
reward IL. Better the blast and whirlWind of
enterprise than the dreamless sleep OF such
eguaEty. Noiceless yet would be the golden
harp OF Shakespeare. silent the OF Milton. still
the fairy fingers OF Mozart, untitled, untitled with
westward winds Columbus sails unreared our
temples Of learning and wrapped in the shadows
OF a dream undreampt this nightly, mighty civ
ilizstiOn but for the magic touch OF private enter
prise.
No. not equality of condition equality OF prIvf-
lege Is the principle of justice Equal privileges to
build fortunes If one can; 10 lead armies il one
can: 10 be an HersCheal Humboldt II one can
this principle IL was that gave Us liberty without
license that handed the Instant lightnings down
10 Garrison and Phillips: that called 20 arms tae
soul OF Lincoln: that stormed those heights At
L0ok0uL equality OF Drivil &c, and the tattered
battle flags that flashed in the curling smoke at
Yorktown. at Gettysburg, at shiloh, the sacred
mOfEgrOwn monument OF those who fell upon all
the furrowed fields where our heroes fought for
the rights OF man call upon TO preserve that
II nCip'e forever.
Thus because it ignores nature sud Justice IS
the theory OF our social sOoiler false. Let them
attempt 10 execute IL aud our land owners can
non VIII teach them how practical 10 Is. God
krsnt tnaI America snsll never test IL God grant
some Cesar. some Cromwell, some Napoleon snail
rise snd save Us from ourselves.
is cur society. then sufficient 10 solve this
problem OF labor and capital? YesI IL Is sufficient
In the name Of popular education it Is sufficient
In the name of temperance reform and
pure public sentiment, it IS sufi. Gent.
In me name of Him VINO, .'despIsed and reJected
OF men, bruised for our iliquts and
with a. sentences unspeakaole Is soo.h-
ing and Winning the hearts of men
our tOcleIy is sufficient 10 solve this problem.
But II society is equal TO the question. why the
conflict The solution means toe removal OF the
cause. What then Is the cause OF the con6tctf
Not sccietys Injustice MOI Ii results because
right relations have been distorted: because
demaeogues have cut the chords OF confidence
binding labor and capital together. Loss OF coa-
hcenee, mutual distrust is tue moving spirit.
Labor and capital have forgotten what each owes
creates all its wealth; forgogten that labor is
human with sacred rights; forgotten that rank is
bot the guinea's stamp the man the gold for ~
that: forgotten this. ana fixes wages not where
theo should Debut as low as labor can live upon
toll. Labor has forgotten that capital
tai like all force, must be massed to accomplish
great ends, and that scattered 1t would begDower-
less the shorn Sampson; forgotten that labor
ceives 50 per cent. and capital but per cent OF
all the value industry Creates and that capital is
the directing force that renders that industry pos
sible; forgotten the true nobility OF labor, that
the 'purest pathos In this world is brave strug-
CLING, not repinlne;" that every force to day is
lifting labor up. Let the toiler pause and think,
For his sake thrones are falling and the world is
yielding to the royalty OF thought aud toll. For
his sake science searches the mystery OF force and
lie and, at the portals of the tomb almost grasps
the mystery of death. Every influence, whether
college or church, whether slatemans thought or
law OF matter whatever to-day is living force is
shaping in this 10Th century the very age OF the
NOTTINGHAM yet underneath, with SILENT mod
ing, building. Labor and capital must remember
these things labor must remember that CAPT
talist deserves more than q workman for the fore
sight and responsibility that create enterprise:
capital must remember labor's rights; give labor
the wages of justice, wages that rise and fall when
pronls rlsea ana fali-conndence must be restored
and this nrohlem will vanish like frost IN hoOd
OF sunshine!
But confidence can not be restoved while three
classes remain IN society, the ignorant the crimi-
nal and the poor; ana If the school can not over
come the ignorant, the church, the criminal and
alas for the future of society!
Thus UNIVERSAL education becomes a social
necessity. IgnOIant labor can not reason justly.
IL IS the ready vlstim OF every plausible fsllacY.
To ignorant labor capital seems the hoary tyrsnt
whose heavy burdens il has borne through storm
only Tecompense. Well may capital mistrust,
well may 1t tTembie when political power is in the
hands of ignorant poverty. You can not remove
the power; you must destroy the class: you must
eDlighten labor. Enlightened labor can think
5ghy. 5n9 t s that eapI.sI cb rs the
places With capital-the incompetent heir with
the able employee. Enlighten labor, educate the
people aud oar ignorant class will fade away like
the memory of troubled dream.
But whence the criminal and INDECENT, The
tics and from its darkest page read the answer
Our poor spend 81 O00 600 GOO every year for ntOx
icanis Labor worth 81, 900 0O0 more, is yearly
all poverty. nine tenths of all crime comes
from intoxicants. Here is the. efficient
master spirit that is pitching the tents and light
ing the camp-fires of distrust. This is more than
matter of sentimental is matter OF safety.
The 81 OO0 COO coo yearly taken fro n sbors peck
| eta must be saved-an economy which almost
! alone will eliminate the criminal and the indi-
gent classes and solve this riddle of our future.
But of itself IT can not solve il. The great
! need Of our business civilization is immaculate
conscience, conscience as tender 10 suffering as
mothers heart. SIS swift to smiUe a wrong as the
shaft OF an angry God 1t alone can establish
aeso.uie eonnaence between labor anu eaoi,a a.
/ Capital without conscience means tyranny; labor
without conscience 10 ems anarchy. practical
! element this we must not neglect, and we need
not neglect 1t, tor out from the SHADES OF GeIn-
semene, out from the riven tomb, He,
| of the thorn crowned head is walk.
ing down the troubled ages lifting
| from bruised and staggering man the on rden of
his woes, speaking Deaceo every heart. conscience
| to every soul and here here when Christanityis
the basis of society. here where chiIdhood's fris
| sweet liSpings learn st mothers knee and from
mothers loving lips the story of that Ineha0le
| One a story that CLEANS along our lives and gilds
| the siivered head with fashinRs of immortal
| glory We kno that spOtless conscience may be
| a unversrl fact Back of Christaa faith lies con-
| science ana back OF conscience lies commences
| The church must come TO the rescue OF our mod
ern conscience, shlpwrecked as II well nigh Is IN
the storm and tempest OF this century's struggle
for gain. II ought TO be. therefore, it shall be.
| must become the logic OF society. Capital must
| be humanized labor must be Christianized The
might of Christian laborl il is the sublmest force
| in history. II was Christian labor that awoke
| 10 the morning cIy of Paul Revere aud rallied on
| the green.st Lexington; Christian labor, that out
| from The yearning arms OF home. marched forth
into the flame of battle. and sent Gods thunder
| bolts smoking against our national sin, marched
forth for itself but for justice to the slave and TO
Christian labor our hose must be anchored in this
conflict of to-day. But fathless labor; but let that
procession that but yesterday marched through
Chicago declaring robbery Just; or the one that
last year made Berlin tremble, let the barricaded
streets of Paris. let these show you the fury of
labor without conscience. without God Tnen let
the song of Bethlehem's morning stars peal on,
peal on, peal on till its trembling melody touches
every troubled spirit, touches them in the vaults
of greed, and the homes of the lowly aud the
camps of sin. touches and soothes and wins.
Let the buges OF conscience sound the truce
| Of Goo through the whole world forever
Our society is indeed equal to the problem.
Only loss OF confidence has caused this conflict,
only the INDECENT. the ign rant aud the vicious
destroy confidence, and when these barriers 10
mutual trust nave been leyeled. and they wlll be
when we have a SOBER an intelligent aud a Chris
tan people. and will have them. the sounds
of this conflict will die away as the distant thun-
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