St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-01
This Country Soon to Be Divided Between
Princes and Paupers With Their Pal
aces and Hovels.
Coming Conflict Of the Arrogant Monopo
lists and the Laborers Crying for
More Bread,
All Attempts at Reconciliation Hav.
ing Failed, Where Shall We Look
for Relief
The World Being Swindled By the
Robber Firm of supply and
Demand.
DR.. Ta1mage,s sermon.

Brain. Before the sermon he read passages
from the Book of Proverbs and from one OF
the epistles, the one in regard to slothful-
ness and the other in regard to insufficient
compensation. The opening hymn was:
1.-THE morning light is breaking,
The darkness disappears,
The sons of man are waking
TO penitential tears"
The text was from Matthew vii, 12:
! "Whatever you would that men should do
to you, do We even so to them" Dr.. Tai
mage said:
The greatest war the world has ever seen
is that going on between labor and capital,
not strife like the thirty years war OF
! which history tells us, for this is war OF
centuries. 1t is war of five continents, a
war hemisphere. In this country the mid
die classes, who have held the balance OF
power, and upon whom the nation has de-
pended as mediators between the two ex-
tremes, are diminishing and at the same
ratio we will soon have no middle class, for
all the people will be very rich OF very
poor and the country be divided between
princes and paupers, between
PALACES AND NOVELS.
The two great antagonistic forces are
closing in upon each other. Telegraph
operators Strikes" Railroad employees
strikes" pennsylvania miners strikes, y
the movements on the part of boycOtterS
and dynamiters are only skirmisheS before
the general engagement: or, if you prefer,
they are escapes through the safety valve OF
an imprisoned force that promises the ex-
plosion of society.
You may pooh, pooh it, and prophesy
that this trouble, like an angry child, will
cry itself to sleep, and think you have be-
Titled it into insignifcance by calling it
Socialism, Fourierism, st. Simonism, Nj
hilism, or Communism, but that cannot
hinder the fact that it is the mightieSt,
darkest, most terrific threat of this century.
Moreover, all the attempts at pacitication
have been dead failure. MOnOpOliStS are
more arrogant, trades unions more bitter.
''Give us more wages" cry the employees;
1--WE will give you less" respond the capi-
talists. ''Give us less hours of work" say
these; ''You shall have more" say those.
'sWe wont work under such conditions, y
cry these; ''Then you shall starve, respond
those Soon the laboring classes will have
exhausted what little prosperity they had
accumulated under better state Of things,
and unless there be something done there
will be in this country 3, 000,0 900
HUNGRY MEN AND WOMEN.
Well, 5000, 900 hungry people cannot be
kept quiet. All the enactments OF legisla-
lures, and all the constabularies Of the
cities, and all the army and navy OF the
United States cannot keep them quiet.
What then? Will capital and labor. eyer
settle their quarrel by their own wisdom?
No. The brow of the one will be more
rigid and the fist of the other tighter
clenched.
First, it will not be stopped by an out
cry against rich men because they are rich.
There is not a member of a trades union in
the United States who would not be rich if
he could. Sometimes, through fortunate
invention or some accident OF prosperity,
man with nothing rises to affluence, and
he Immediately becomes superciliOus and
| overbearing and takes people by the throat
with as tight grip as he himself was taken
by the throat. Human nature is a mean
thing when it comes to the supremacy 1t
is no more sin to be rich than to be poor.
While there are those who have got their
property by fraud, there are millionaires,
who by foresight of changes to take place
in markets or business briliancy. won their
property as honestly as the plumber ever
earned his money for mending pipe or a
mason for building wall. With vast null
titudes of people the poverty is their own
fault. They might have been well off, but
they smoked or drank up their earnings or
they lived beyond their means. Men on
the same wages or salaries as they had
went on to competency.
ATTACKS ON THE RICH.
A vast multitude of the poor are the
victims of their own improvidence. pro-
test against the assault of men who through
economy, self-denial and assiduity have
amassed great fortunes.
Thank God for honest rich men. They
build art galleries and endOw colleges, and
| adorn cities and erect churches, and if for
! egn despotisms should threaten us would
subscribe. if need be, $50, 900, 900 to sink
them before they got through the Narrows.
| By indiscriminate attack upon success YOU
can never settle this fight.
Neither will this pacitication come through
cynical and unsympathetic treatment of
| the laboring classes. Some talk of them as
| though they were cattle or draft horses.
| Their nerves are nothing. Their tastes are
nothing. Their domestic comfort is moth
| ing. and there are men who have no more
| feeling for the toilers than the hound has
for the hare, or hawk for the hen, or a
/ tiger for the calf. In warm slippers, what
do they care for cold feet?
| Torches in this country applied to fac
tories 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, be-
cause the offenders do not like the president
of the company, strikers, who. leave
the ship the hour before 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 deliv-
| cred, or the house -scaffOlding the day when
their absence would make the builder fail
in his contract-an these things have given
AMERICAN LABOR
arms and lamed its feet and pierced it
through the heart Take the last great
strike in America, the telegraph operators
strike, and the loss to the operators was
| $500, 900 and poorer wages ever since.
| Neither sudden trap sprung upon employ
ers 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.
| Yet all attempts at reconciliation between
labor and capital so far having failed and
| tie two standing with their thumbs ON each
others throat ready for strangulation it
behooves us to look elsewhere for relief.
| And from my text it bounds out, roseate
and jubilant, and putting one hand on the
broadcloth shoulder of capital puts the
| other hand on the hemespun shoulder Of
! toll, and says with a voice that will finally
and gleriously settle everything: 'What-
soever We would that men should do to YOU.
do ye SO to them"
The manufacturer will look over his re-
sources and say: Il mean to do the
| best for my employees that I can. and will