The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-10-11
THOUGHTS OF PREACHERS.
Rev. McCulloch Discovers Signs Of Prog
ress in Settling the Labor Question.
Bishop Paddock's Address at Christ Church on
EpiscOpalian Missionary Work-Serv-
ices at Other Churches Yesterday.
SIGNS OF PROGRESS.
Rev. o. c. McCulloch's Discourse on the La
Dor Question Last Evening.

Rev. o. C. McCulloch's Discourse on the La
Dor Question Last Evening.
At Plymouth Church last evening Rev. o. c..
McCulloch addressed large audience, in which
were many workingmen, on 1.-THE Signs of Prog
ress in the Settlement of the Labor Question. /"
There was time he said when questions were
not allowed to be asked, the constant admonition
being people should listen not talk. Calico and
Luther fell under such ban, but in later years
came the slavery question, and we now have the
Eastern question. the temperance question, the
Irish question, and the labor question. AS to the
last mentioned, wage workers are asking what
are their rights and privileges in the worlds
progress It is rather a series of questions,
issue bristling with interrogation points 1t is
more a problem than question. Any
one can ask for an answer, but
it takes years to solve the problem 1t is no little
affair of Indianapolis, the State or the country,
but one of the whole world This question is not
going to be settled in day or in years. Pa
thence is required. Henry Vincent during the
Chartist movement, stated his plan of social re-
construction strongly and well, so well that with
In a month he was thrown into jail When he
came he said 1.-THE world is an obstinate old
brute" 1t is very conservative world, but the
entered the field of discussion and will never be
settled, except on the natural rights of man and
justice to ALL We see in it the upward progress
of Democracy. History is following new meth
DDS, and the social student, instead of following
the career of kings, is studying the movements
of the masses, who are demanding larger share
In the enjoyment of life.
Vctuas and drink once satisfied the working
people Henry Nv said every man could be
kept quiet if he had chicken in his pot Our
civilization has enlarged desires. And another
sign of progress lies in the question being con-
sidered as one ofsustice, and still another in the
tendency of workingmen to organize. The
sooner all workingmen are in organized bodies
the sooner will peace come Organization of
labor Is the great bulwark against violence and
anarchy It leads, as is now apparent, in dimi-
mutton of strikes and growth of arbitration.
Our mistakes often best teachers and
hence the Southwestern strikes carry with them
a stern lesson. He did not think strike of that
magnitude would again occur, for the voice of
the people was for q peaceful settlement of all
labor difficulties.
The advance Of temperance and education
among working people were two signs of prog
fess. He believed il better for a community to
spend $780, 900 on public schools, rather than
on court-houses. He wanted the wage workers
to join with him in a demand for an increased
tax for the schools; tax that will place Indian
apolls on q plane with other cities. He also
asked to have school houses increased, so that
every little four-year old could find place for
instruction under the beautiful kindergarten
system, and again did he ask for schools of
manual training.