St. Paul daily globe., 1885-12-20
MIR. sCUDDER REPLIES
To Il Criticism Which He Says Was
Hardly Fair to Himself.


Hardly Fair to Himself.
To the Editor of the Globe:
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi. Dec. 17.-Some-
one has very kindly sent me copy of the
GLOBE issued Dec. 13 in which find a
lengthy criticism upon my fifth lecture on
Labor and Capital, together with several
editorial illusions to the same. Howev er
| may differ with some of the WOrkingmen
upon labor reforms, am glad to see that
they attribute the proper motives to my ell
deavOrS to handle some of these problems
which are now agitating the world. 1t was
my personal contact with labOring men and
sympathy with them in their trials and strug-
giles that led me to introduce these themes
into the pulpit and show that the church
was interested in them as a class. After
reading the communication referred to,
am of the opinion that brother Z. w. B.
was unusually hot when he wrote the same
and allowed himself to go farther than he
would had he been in calmer frame OF
mind OF course it would be impossible
for me to fatter the labOrer all the way
through q systematic course of lectures such
as | am giving. LabOrerS are not all angels,
and hear and there [ shall bear down heav-
lily upon their weaknesses. just as do upon
the cruelties and meanneSS of certain capi-
ldllSlS. w Hell a tdlhS W ltlDOlIliS
as class, and tells them that intemperance
is one of their great follies and is dragging
them down, his statement is fact. and
every workingman knows it, L. W. B.
notwithstanding l know as we'll as my
critic who presumes to have digested the
science of political economy, and wants to
give me few lessons, that intemperance is
an effect of poverty. and in the right place
shall dwell upon that phase of the sub
Ject but l know he knows as well that in
temperance is also
PRODIGIoUS CAUSE OF POVERTY.
makes man an inferior workman and
tends, in the long run, to reduce his wages
or make him lose his place. There are two
sides TO this subject. | am frank enouqh
to say both of us are right; but he is so
worked up over the lecture that he thinks
he only is right and am wrong. l said
that if every laboring man. who drank only
two glasses of lager day, would lay aside
his two nickelS Systematically, he would
have several thousands of dollars by the
time his hair turned gray. Why don't T.
w. b. diSprove such common-sense state
ments and good advice, instead of rushing
off on tangents Irrelevant to the subject of
the lecture.
Under the head of improvidence your
correspondent again becomes wild and Sc
lectS an extreme case, where laborer gets
from S5 cents to S1.25 day, and asks very
funnily how such man can be improvi-
dent? was speaking especially of the
higher forms of labor, such, for example.
as skilled mechanics. who of conrse had the
power to spend their money, where they
might save it if they would. The entire
lecture did not apply to the man working
upon railroad construction or grading
q street T. W. B. must remember
that there are several kinds of laborers
and wages that range from 81 to S5.
For the man who gets only s5 cents day
have something to say in my next lecture
on Labor and Legislation to be delivered
Sunday evening. Dec. 30. AS T. W. B.