Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-21

thing despise IL il those mic ersble and
low lived fngersi" Wat II the hand
should say: al am boss workman; am
independent OF ell the other members;
look at the collous In my palm and the
knots Of my knucklcs; II there Is any
thing hate II Il the human eye, seated
under tho dome OF the forehead, doing
nothing but look.n Now, we come in this
morning to break up that quarrel, and we
say, "Ohi silly eye, how soon you would
swim IN death II You had not the hand 10
support and defend you. OIL silly hard,
y0u would be a mere fumbcr IN the dark
ness " 1t were not for the hvmln eye"
The eye cannot say unto toe hand, al
have no need of thee "
Relief Will come 10 the working classes
OF this country through better under
standing between capital and labor Be-
fore this contest goes much father II
viii be found that their interests are
identlcal; what helps one helps both I,
what Injuries one Injuries both. Show me
any point In the WORLDS history Of 60ee
years where capital wss prospered
and labor oppressed, or where labor
was prospcpcd and capital oppressed.
What IS The state u things nuw2
LABOR st It's wits end 20 get
bread. Capital at It's Wits emf to
pay the taxes and 20 keep the stors and
factory running. Show me any point In
the last Hity years where capital was get
ting large accumulation, and viii snow
You the point at witch labor wa getting
large wages. Show me point at any
time In the last dfty years where labor
was getting large wages, and I will show
yOr the point where capital was getting
large profits Until the crack OF doom
there wiz be no relief for the working
classes until there Is u better under
standing between labor and capital and
this war ends Every speech that capital
makes against labor Is an adjournment of
our national prosperity Every speech
that labor makes against capital Is an adj
1ournment OF our national prosperity
When the capital of the country maligns
labor IL Ii the eye cursiDg the hand
When labor mallgns capital It IL
the hand curslug the eye.
The capitalists OF the country, so far
05 | know them, are successful laDorers.
II the capitalists In this house to-day would
draw their glove, you would see the
broken linger.nail, the scar of an old
blister, here and there stiffened finger
joint. The great publishers OF New York
and Philadelphia, so far as know them,
were bookbiuders or printers on small
pay. The carriage manufacturers Of the
country used to sanupapcr the wagon
bodies in the wheelwrlght's shop. On
the other hand, you will 1nd in all our
great establishments men on wages who
used to employ their 100 or 500 hands.
Peter Cooper was glue.maker No
one begrudged him his millions Of dol
lars, for he built Cooper institute and
swung open It's doors for every poor mans
-on, and said TO the day laborer: "Send
your boy up to my institute II you want
him To have splendid education" And
a young man Of this church was
the other day walking IN Greenwood
cemetery and he saw two young men put.
ting flowers on the grave Of Peter Cooper.
My friend supposed the young men were
relatives OF Peter Cooper and decorated
his grave for that reason "No,r they
said, 1--WE put these flowers on his grave
because 1t was through him we got our
education Abraham Van Nest was a
harness-makcr In New York. Through
economy and industry and skill he got a
great fortune. He gave away to help
Others hundreds Of thousands OF dollars.
| shall never forget the scene when |, a
green country lad, stopped at his house,
and after passing the evening with him,
he came to the door and came outside
and SAID "llere, Dewitt, Is $50 to get
books with Don't say anything about
H." And | never did till the good old
man was gone. The wealthy mon of the
twentieth century are In these last four.
teen years of the nineteenth century sit
ting with their feet on the shuttle,
or standing up swinging the pick.axe,
or doing some kind OF hard work, and
from the same classes are to come the
philosophers aud poets and orators.
Henry Clay was "the mill-boy of the
Slashos." Hugh Miller, Il stone.mason;
Columbus, Il weaver; HALEY, soap.
boilers Arkwright, u barber; the learned
bloomfield, shoemaker; IIogarth, an
engrover Of pewter plate, and Horace
Greeley started life in New York with
5000 In his pocket
The distance between capital and labor
Is not great gulf over which Is swung
a Niagara suspension bridge; II is only
step, aud the lahorers here will cross over
ana become capitalists, and the capital.
lists VIII cross over and become laborers.
Would to God they would shake hands
while they are crossing, these from one
side, and those from the other side.
The combatants in this great war be- |
tween capital and labor are chiefly, on
the one side, men Of fortune who have |
never been obliged to toll, and who |
desplse labor, and on the other hand, !
men who could get labor but will not
have 1t, will not stick to 1t. II Is the |
manu- cursing the eye, or the eye curslng |
the nand | want IL understood that the |
laoorefs are the highest style OF capital |
,stS Where Is their Investment? In |
no oankr No. IN railroad stock9 No. |
= helr muscles, their nerves, their bones, |
tnelr mechanical skill, their physical
neilth, are the highest kind of capital.
ne man who has two feet, aud two ears,
anu Two eyes, aud ten tngers, owns a
lnsohihety that puts into nothIngness
sorsiss' engine aud all tho railroad roll
iuE stoeh, ana all the carpet, and screw,
anu cotton factories OF the planet. /
wave the dag OF truce this morning he.
tween these contestants | demand a
cessation OF hostiltles between labor and
capital. Whatis good for one il sood
Tor both. What Is bad for one is bad for
both, ava
Again, relief Will come TO the WORKING
classes Ot this country through co.oper,
alive association. am not now referripe
% trades unions. We NAV hereafter dis.
'tuSS That question, But refer TO that
'hn by which lahorers become their own
capitalists, taking their SURPRISES and
quitting them together and carryitg ON
treat enterprises, In England and
Nales there are l65 cooperative asso.
nations, with 100000 members, with a
'apital of Sll 200, 600, doing business In
'ne yeac to the amount Of s57. 200 600.
n Troy, n. y there was co.oporatise
ron foundry association ltworked wei
oog enough to give aa idea OF what conld
g accomplished when the experiment n
uliy developed Thomas Brassey. ono