, 1886-05-23

and IL will he rc-established. Within SIX
months there will be n kindlier understanding
between Labor and Capital than has ever
been known in this country. They have
had demonstrated as never before, their alb
solutc Deepen lence upon each other.
Meanwhile my brotherly counsel is to three
classes OF laborers;
First, to those who are at work: Stick to
it. Do not anil the excitement OF these
times drop your employment, hoping that
something better will turn up. He who
gives up work now, whether he be railroad
man. mechanic. farmer, clerk or any other
kind OF cmploye, will probably give it up for
starvation. You may not like the line O.
steamers that you are sailing in. but do not
jump ovorboar in the middle of tho Allan
tic. Il, n little earlier than usual at your
post Of work while ths turmoil lasts, md at
tend to your occupation with n little more
assiduity than has ever characterize d you.
My brotherly counsel, in the second place,
is to those who have resigned work 1t is
best for you aud best for everybody to go
back INN .dintely. DO not wait to see what
Others do. Get on board the train of ma
tional property before it starts again. for
start it will. start soon and start nightly.
Last year in the city OF New York there
were forty-hve general strikes and one hun
dred aud seventy-sevan shop strikes Sue
cess nj strikes. ninety-seven; strikes lost,
thirty four; strikes pending at the time the
statist cs were made, ffty-nine; strikes com
promised. thirty-two. Would you like me
to tell you who will make the most out of the
present almost universal striker | can and
will. Those will make the most out of it
who go first TO work.
My third word of brotherly advice Is to
another class of laborers, namely, those who
have been n long time ont OF work. How
many of thems Before this present trouble
began there were nearly two million people in
this country out OF work, and could not get
work. | have for the last ten years been
busy much of the tins in trying to- got peo-
pie work who nskni for it. l have worn
myself out again and again. as many of you
have, to get employment for those who be-
sought It, In some cases we succeeded, in
others failed. My brotherly counsel
pie who could not get work before
this trouble began, and who have
themselves and their families to support.
to go now and take the vacated places. Go
in and take those places a million and "A half
strong Green hands you may be now, but
you will not b. green hands long. My senti-
ment is full liberty for all who want to
strike to do so. and full liberty for all who
want o. take the vacated places. Other in.
dustrics will open for those who are now
taking n vacation, for we have oaly openei
the outside door of this continent, and there
Is room inth.s country for eight hundred mil
lion people, AMI for each ono of In IN a home
and n liveiihool and a God.
So. however others may fevl about this
excitement a. wide ns the continent, | am
not scared "a lit Tho storm will hush.
Christ will put his foot upon it MS upon
agitntcd q i'ilse. As Mt the beginning. chaos
viii give place TO orler as the spirit Of God
moves upon the waters. But hear 1t. work
ingmcn Of Americal Your first step toward
fSht and bettermant of condition will ba an
a sertion Of your individual independence,
from the dictatlon of your fellow workman.
You are n free man, and let no organiza-
ton come between you and your best in
terrst- Do not let any mar or any body of
men, tell you where you shall work, or where
you shall not work, when you shall work or
when you shall not work. If a man wants
to belong to n labor organization, let him
belong. II he does not want to b,long to a
labor organization, let him nave perfect
liberty to stay out. You own yourself. Let
no man put "A manacle on your hand or foot
or head or heart.
belong to n ministerial association that
meets once n week. l love all the members
very much. We may help each other in a
nuiluItl ways bul Wutn luhl us'OtlullDn
shali tell me TO quit my work and go some
where else, that | must stop right away be-
cause a brother minister has been badly
treated down in Texas, | will say to that
ministerial associations: Get thee behind
me. Satnn.i Furthermore. | bave "A right to
resign my pa 'torate of this church and
say to ihe people: 81 decline to work
for you any longer. am go.nr.
Good -by.n But l have no right, af-
ter have quit this pulpit, to
linger around the doors on Sunday mornings
and evenings with a shotgun to int imidatc
or hinder the minister who comes to take my
place. may quit my place and continue to
be a gentleman. but when | interfere with
my succe sor in this pulpit | becomea criminal
and Il serve nothing better than soup in a tin
" in Sing Sing penitentiary. Here is a Estate
mont that | would have every laborer put in
his memorandum book or paste in his hat,
ald every newspaper put at the head Of its
columns There are now about twelve
million people in this country re-
ceiving wages and about six hun
dred thousand belonging to organizations
that control their labor. l would have n |
the six HUI dred thousand do as they please.
and | would have all the other eleven
million four hundred thousand do as they
please. You will admit that the six hundred
thousand in such organizations ought not to
control the eleven million four hundred
thousand lnborers not in them. Your first
duty. o lnboring man, is to your family.
Lot no one but Almighty God dictate to you
how You sha | support them. Work when
YOU please, whore you please, at what YOU
please and allow no one for a hundred mil
lionth part of n second TO interfere with
your right When we emerge from the
present u%nhappiness. us we soon will, we
shall fin many tyranres broken and Labor
nnl Capital " II march shoulder to s@ouldor.
TIL day declare the mutual dependence
of Labor and Capital. An old tentmaker
put II just right mean Paul-whrn he de-
clarrd: "The eye cannot say to the hand, |
AVE no need Of thee You have examine |
some elaborate machincry-a thousand
wheels. "A thousand bands, a thousand levers.
n thousand pulieys. but all controlle | by one
great water wheel, ali the parts ndjoined so
that il YOU Jared ono part you Jared all
the art,. Well. society ia n great piece of
mechanism a THOUSAND wheels, n thousand
pull ". n thousand levers, but all controlled
by one great AMI ever-revolying force-tha
wheel of tio Is providence. SO thoroughly Is
society 3D. 1nccd md adjusted, that IL YOU
harm on pa { YOU harm all the parts The
professions interiependent, all the trades in
terdependcnt. Capital and Labor interde-
y nicnt, 50 thht the MAJ VINO lives in a man
sion on the hill, and the man who breaks
cobhlcstones at the foot Of the hill, affect
each others mi~fo tune or pro perity. Dives
canno kick Lazarus without hurting his
own foot They who throw Shadrach into
the furnace get their own faces scorched md
blackcncl. No such thing as independence
Smitc society AT any one point and you smite
the cntifc community. Or to fall back on the
old trnt makers fisurc. what If the eve should
say; 81 am ovorsecr Of this physical nnnto-
my ! am indepsn lent II NIL the o-h'r mem.
her II th.rs l. anything | delpi g il Is thos4
mi m No NIL Iu-AlA..I nnrnr-lr ANhnA l.