Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-01
Or. TaImage Discusses the Great
Question of Labor and Capital.
THEMIeHTIEsT PROBLEM OF THEAeE.
The True Cure In God--- Whatsoever
Ye Would That Men Should Do to You
Do Ye Even So to Them"
A QUESTION PRESSING FOR ANSWER.
Special 10 TIE Register.

Tabernacle on the subject: "Fist versus
Brain" Before the sermon he read passa-
ges from the Book of Proverbs and from
one Of the epistles, the one in regard to
slothfulness and the other in regard to in
sufficient compensation. The opening hymn
was:
"The morning light is breaking,
ThedarkneSs disappears,
The sons of men are waking
To penitential tears"
Tie text was from Matthew vii. II:
Whatsoever ye would that men should do
to you, do ye even 50 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 a 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 or very poor
and the country be divided between princes
and paupers, between palaces and novels.
Telegraph operators strikes" Railroad
employees strikes" pennsylvania miners
strikes" the movements on the part OF Boy
cotters 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 explosion 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 belittled
it into insigni6cance BY calling it Social
ism, Fourierism, ST. Simonism, Nihilism 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;
I'VE will give you less" respond the capital
lists. Give US less hours Of work" say
these; you shall have more say those"
1--WE wont work under such conditions" 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 three
million hungry men and women. Well,
three million hungry people cannot be kept
quiet. All the enactments of legislatures,
and all the constabularies Of the cities, and
all the army and navy ofthe United States
cannot keep them quiet. What then2 Will
capital and labor ever 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. Bat what secu-
lar wisdom cannot do christianity can ac
complish if it be given full swing. You
have heard of medicines so powerful that
one drop would stop disease and restore
the patient, and one drop of my text will
kill all this trouble and give convslescence
and health to all classes Whatsoever ye
would that man should do to you do ye
even so to them"
The Pulpit Must be Heard
on this subject. When Benjamin Franklin
made his discoveries in electricity, John
Wesley put electrical machines in several
neighborhoods that people might by them be
healed of their nervous disorders. Our
gospel is gospel for the body as well as the
soul. First will show you how this CAPT.
rslistic war won't be stopped, and then how
It will be stopped.
First, twill not be stopped by an outcry
against rich men because they are rich.
here is not a member of trades union in
be United States who would not be rich II
he could Somelimest through fortunate in
sention or some accident of prosperity
nan with nothing rises to atiiuence, aud he
Immediately becomes supercilious and over.
bearing and takes people by the throat with
ss tight grip as he himself was taken by
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 men who have got their property
by fraud, there are milionaires who by
foresight of changes to take place in mar
kets or business brilliancy won their prop
erty as honestly as the plumber ever earned
his money for mending pipe or a mason
for building wall. With vast multitudes
of people the poverty is their own fault.
They might have been we'll of, 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. / know men who complain
of their poverty who keep two dogs and
smoke and clssw and 60 loaded to the chin
with whisky and beer.
AIicawber,
in prison for debt, is reported as saying to
David CopperGeld: "My boy: income, one
pound; expenses, twenty shilhngs and six
pence; result, misery. Income, one pound
expenses, nineteen shillings and six pence;
result, happiness" A vast multitude Of the
poor are the victims Of their own improvi-
dence. / protest against the assault of men
who through economy and self-denisl and
sssiduity have amassed great fortunes
Thank God for honest rich men. They
build art galleries and endow colleges aud
adorn cities and erect churches, and If for.
eien despotisms should threaten us would
subscribe, if need be, fifty million dollars to
sink them before they got through the Mar
rows By indiscriminste attack upon sue
cess you can never settle this fight.
Neither viii this
Pacification.
come through cynical and unsympstheic
treatment OF the lsboring classes. Some
talk of them as though they were ca.t'e or
draft horses. Their nerves are nothing;
their tastes nothing; there domestic comfort
is nothing, and there are men who have no
more feeling for the toilers than the hound
has for the hare, or a hawk for The hen, or
tiger for the calf In warm slippers whs
do they care for cold feet When Jean
vslieap, the graudest hero of Victor Hugo
after lite of misfortune, goes down into
incarceration aud death. they shut the book
| in exultation and say. Good for him
They stamp the foot in regard to those pso
pie and cay just the opposite of Save the