The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-05-28

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could not get work. / 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 is to
the nearly 100000 people 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 these places
a million and a half strong. Green
hands you may be now, but you viii not
| be green hands long.
Ny sentiment is full liberty for all who
want to strike to do so, and full liberty for
all who want to take the vacated places.
Other industries will open for those who
| are now taking a vacation, for we have
only opened the outside door of this conti-
nent, and there is room in this country for
| 500, ,O00, 900 people, and for each one of them
home, and a livelihood and a God.
So, however others may feel about this
| excitement, as wide as the continent, I am
not scared a bit The storm will hush,
Christ viii put his foot upon it as upon ag-
itated Galilee. AS at the beginning, chaos
| win give place to order as the spirit of God
moves upon the waters. But hear it, work
ingmen of America Your first step toward
light and betterment of condition will be
1H aSS6EblOn Oh AH0ANAuud1 AhUSpoAA0~
ence from the dictation of your fellow
workmen. You are free man, and let no
organization come between you and your
best interests. Do not let any man 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 man wants to belong to labor
| organizations let him belong. If he does
not want to belong to labor organization
let him have perfect liberty to stay out.
| You own yourself. Let no man put q
manacle on your hand, or foot, or head, or
heart.
1 belong to q ministerial association tn at
meets once a week / love all the mem-
bers very much. We may help each other
| in a hundred ways, but when that associa-
tion shall tell me to quit my work and go
somewhere else, that I must stop right
away because brother minister has been
badly treated down in Texas, viii say to
that ministerial association: "Get thee
| behind me, Satanp Furthermore, have
a right to resign my pastorate of this
church and say to the people: "I decline
to work for you any longer. / am going,
"Good-by." But linger around the doors
| on Sunday mornings and evenings with q
| shot gun to intimidate or hinder the min
lister who comes to take my place. 1 may
quit my place and continue 30 be a gentle
| man, but when / interfere with my sue
cessor in this pulpit / become criminal
and deserve nothing better than soup in a
tin bowl in Sing Sing penitentiary. Here
is a statement that 1 would have every
laborer put in his memorandum book or
paste in his hat, and every newspaper put
at the head of it's columns. There are
now about l., 900, 900 people in this country
receiving wages, and about 900, 900 be-
| longing to organizations that control
| their labor. 1 would have all the
| 600,0 900 do as they please, and / would
have all the other II 100000 do as they
please. You will admit that the 600, 900 In
such organizations ought not TO control
the IL .400, 900 laborers not in them. Your
| first duty O laboring man! is it to your
| family. Let no one but Almi ghty God
dictate to you how you shall support
them. Work when you please, where you
| please, at what you please, aud allow no
one for a hundredth- miIlionth part of a
second to interfere with your right When
we emerge from the present unhappiness,
as we soon will we shall find many tyran-
nies broken and labor and capital will
march shoulder to shoulder.
This day / declare the mutual depend
ence of labor and capital. An old tent
maker put it just right mean Paul
when he declared: "The eye can not say
/ to the hand, I have no need of thee" You
have examined some elaborate machIn cry
| "a thousand wheels, thousand bands, a
thousand levers, thousand pulleys, but
| all controlled by one great water wheel,
| all the parts adjoined so that if you Jared
one part you Jared all the parts. Well,
society is a great piece of mechanism, a
thousand wheels, a thousand pulleys, a
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| great ever-revolving force-the wheel
of Gods providence. So thorough
| ly is society balanced and ad-
| justed, that if you harm one
part you harm all the parts. The
professions interdependent, all the trades
interdependent, so that the man who lives
ia a mansion on the hill. and the man who
breaks cobble-stones at the foot of the
hill. affect each others misfortune or pros
| perity. Dives can not kick Lazarus with
out hurting his own foot. They who
| throw Shadrach into the furnace get their
! own faces scorched and blackened. No
such thing as independence. Smite socie-
| ty at any one point and you smite the en-
tire community. Or, to fall back on the
| old tent-maker's figure, what il the eye
should say: "I am overseer of this physi-
cal anatomy; am independent of all the
despise, it is those miserable and low
| lived fingers ~ What if the hand should
| say: "I am boss workman; / am inde-
| pendent of all the other members; look at
| the callous in my palm and the knots Of
/ my knuckles; if there is any thing hate
| it is the human eye, seated under the
| dome of the forehead, doing nothing but
lookP" Now, we come in this morning
to break up that quarrel, and we say:
sob, silly eye, how soon you would swim
| if you had not the hand to support and
| defend you. Oh, silly hand, you would
/ be a mere fumbler in the darkness IL it
were not for the human eye" "The eye
| can not say unto the hand, Il have no
need of thee.'
Relief will come to the working classes
of this country through a better under
standing between capital and labor. Be-
fore this contest goes much further 1t will
be found that interests are identical; what
helps one, helps both; what Injuries one,
Injuries both. Show me any point in thu
worlds history of 5000 years where cap
ital was prospered and labor oppressed, or
where labor was prospered and capital OPP
pressed. What is the state of things now?
Labor at its wits end to get bread. Cap
ital at its wits end to pay the taxes and
keep the store and factory running. Show
me any point in the last fifty years where
capital was getting large accumulation
and l win show you the point at which
labor was getting large wages. Show me
a point at any time in the last fifty years
where labor was getting large wages, and
/ will show you the point where capital
was getting large profits. Until the crack
of doom there viii be no relief for the
working classes until there is a better
understanding between capital and labor
and this war ends. Every speech that
capital makes against labor is adjourn
ment of our National prosperity. Every
speech that labor makes against capital Is