The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-06-01

that afflicted land the sympathies of millions of
people The recent attempt to blow up the
House of Commons in London threw tens of
thousands of Irish out of employment and live
lihood. Torches in this country applied to fac
tories which cut down wages, shotguns aimed
nc workmen who take the place of hands resign
ed or hands discharged for good or bad reason,
Instructions put or railroad tracks before mid
night express trains because the offenders do
not like the president of the company. strikers
who leave the ship the hour it was going
to sail, or the printing Office the
hour the paper was 20 go to press, or the coal
mines the day the coal was to be delivered. or
The house-scaffolding the day when their alb
senee would make the builder fail in his con-
tract-al these things have given American
labor heavy blow on the head, and crippled its
arms, and famed 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, 600, and
poorer wages ever since. Neither sudden trap
sprung upon employers nor violence ever united
the knots from the knuckles of toll, or put more
money into the callous palm. BarDarism 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 ne felt about it as
Naboth did about his vineyard when Ahab
wanted it. Frederick the Great was rough
aud terrible man, and he ordered the miller
into his presence. The King, fourishing stick,
with which he was sometimes accustomed to
strike the officers OF state, said to the miller II
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. Yes, 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 inn
perious of outraees against the poor and the
hard working shall cover before the law
Wrongs will be righted not by violence and
against the law, but by justice and according. to
law.
WHERE TO LOOK FOR RELIEF.
Yet all attempts at reconciliation between labor
and capital so far having failed and the 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 homespun cred
shoulder of toll and says, with voice that will
finally and gloriously settle everything what
ever We would that men should do 20 you, do ye
even so to them" That is, the lady of the house
hold viii say: II must treat the maid in the kitch
en- as would be treated if cooked and washed,
and swept down stairs and she entertained in the
.parlor" And the maid in the kitchen must say:
''f that lady upstairs seems moro fortunate
than /, her prosperity is not to be set down as
dustry and fidelity such as 1 would expect from a
subordinate il l happened to be the
wife of silk importer" The manufacturer
will look 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
woul like to be treated if / turned the iron bar
In the furnace, or stood at the factory wheel, or
had my foot on the treade." And the toiler
will say: Though my face be smirched with
the furnaces and my hand hardened on the
q a | wi
as though my employer were an enemy. will
domy duty among those wheels. as well as
though were up in the countiI room among
the ladgers." The iron manufacturer having
The morning is walking through the foundry,
and, passing through the ''puddling-room
whore the men are besweated aud stripped to
the waist. the employer says: GOOD morning,
hear your child is sick with the scarlet fever.
If you want to draw you wages a little early this
week to buy medicines and pay the nurse, just
come into my office" Passing along into the
white and pallid and hardly able to stand up to
his work, and the employer says: II guess you
don't feel very well to day; better rest little
once in while. What are you taking
will give you a vial of medicine that will set
you right up Thank you,p says the workman,
as he sweeps his arm across his forehead. taking
off the beads of sweat for God knows he is more
e. to be in bed than there.
After while crash goes the money market
and the demand for manufactured goods ceases
and the question is whether to shut up the mill
or run on half time, or lower the wages. The
boss calls ali his hands together. They stand
around him, wondering what he is going to do
He says: '.Men, the times are hard, the demand
for our work is very small. Where used to
make a hundred dollars, don't make twenty
You see am under great expense here, now
what shall dol hate to close up and throw
Of 1p1-vr fnr I1oo
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 a
new dress before long. What shall do97 ST.
men steps little forward from the others and
says: BOSS, you have been good to u.s.
When you prospered, we prospered Now
when you are hard pressed propose that if
yot. will keep the place open we throw off 20 per
cent Of our wages and as soon as times get bet
ter you will remember US: Boys, all in favor of
my motion will say aye" aye! aye!" Shout
200 voices. After while the manufactures,
while getting in some new machinery. takes a
cold aud falls sick of the pneumonia In the
procession to the tomb are the workmen with
sad faces, the tears running clear down the
cheek and off 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 deliv-
erod eloquent eulogium, but the mostimpressive
utterances are by the working classes who stand
around the last resting place. Dear me. is it
mot sadf" 'How good ne was to MS ALL" "We
shall never have so kind friend again." "Dont
you remember when our Charlie died he sent his
carriage to take us to the gravel" ''Oh is it not
dreadful for his wife and children,
God pity them" And that night
in all the cabins where the toilers
have family prayers the widowhood and orphan
age up in the mansion are remembered No
irate population scrowlng through the iron
fence of the cemetery, but lowering over all the
scene the benediction of God and man, "What
Sewer ye would that men should do to you, do
We even so to them
"Oh," you say, ''that is arcadian, apocryphal,
impossible" No. l can take you to the store
houses. the factories, the mines, the great en-
terprisss where this Christly rule is practiced,
and you could no more get the EMPLOYER to inn
pose on his men or the men to conspre against
their employer than you could get your right
hand and left hand your right eye and your left
eye, or your right ear and your left ear into