Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-04

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~ ol inc Atlantic. Be a little earlier
IMAM usual at your post of work while t,,;s
eufnoh lasts, and attend to your occun.
ZION with a little more assiduity than no.
ever characterised you
My brotherly counsel, In the .ooo,,
place, is to those who have resipnad wo.,s
u Is pest for you and best for e~yervbodv
70 go back Immediately. Do not Wait to
see what others do. Get on hoard
the train of National prosne,;tv
before it starts again, for start It will
start soon and start mighty. Lac
year in the city of New York there wara
forty-tive general strikes and III sbon
strikes. Successful strikes, ninety.seven.
strikes lost, thirty-four; strikes pendino
at the time the statistics were made. aftv.
nlne; strikes compromised, thirty two
Would you like me to tell you who will
make the most out of the present almost
universal strike? I can and will, Those
will make the most out of it who 90 first tn
work.
My third word Of brotherly advice is to
another class of laborers-namely, those
who have been a long time out of work.
How many of them? Before this present
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people in his country out of work and
could not get work. Ihave worn myself
out again and again, as many of youhave,
to get employment for those who be-
sought it. In some cases we succeeded. i'm
others failed. My brotherly counsel is to
the nearly 2,ooo,0 900 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 will not
be green hands long.
My 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 CONT.
nent, and there is room in this country for
800, O0O, 900 people, ard for zach one of them
a 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 will put his foot upon it as upon ag.
itated Galilee. AS at the beginning, chaos
will 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
an assertion of your individual independ-
ence from the dictation of your fellow
workmsn. You are a free man, and let no
organization come between you and your
best interests. Do not let any maj 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 labor
organizations let him belong. If he does
not want to belong to a labor organization
let him have perfect liberty to stay out.
You own yourself. Let no man put a
manacle on your hand, or foot, or head, or
heart.
1 belong to a ministerial association that
meets once a week. l love all the mem
bers very muc We may help each other
in a hundred ways, but when that associa-
ton shall tell me to quit my work and go
somewhere else, that I must stop right
away because a brother minister has been
badly treated down in Texas, l will say to
that ministerial association: ICE thee
behind me, Satan!" Furthermore. I have
a right to resign my passionate of this
church and say to the people: 81 decline
to work for you any longer. I am going,
"Good.by." But l linger around the doors
on Sunday mornings and evenings with a
shot gun to intimidate or hinder the min
lister who comes to take my place. I may
quit my place and continue to be a GENTLE
man, but when l interfere with my sue
cessor in this pulpit I become a criminal
o,,l ane,..,o rokb:,,v hok<o. %lo. .a,. -
tin bowl in Sing Sing p~enitentiary. Here
is a statement that I 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 $4,000, 900 people in this country
receiving wages, and about 10000 be.
longing to organizations that control
their labor. I would have all the
100000 10 as they please, and I would
have all the other 11,400, 900 do as they
please. You will admit that the COZ, 900 in
such organizations ought not to control
the II, 400, 900 laborers not in them. Your
first duty, o laboring man! is it to your
family. Let no one but Almighty God
dictate to you how o shall support
them. Work when you please, where you
please, at what you please, and allow no
one for a hundredth-millionth part of a
second to interfere with your right. When
we emerge frcm the present unhappiness,
as we soon will, WI shall find MANY tyran-
MES broken aad labor and capital will
march shoulder to shoulder.
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 it will
be found chat interests are identical; what
helps one, helps both; what Injuries one,
inj ures both. Show me any point in the
worlds history of 5000 years where cap
ital was prospered and labor oppressed, or
where labor was ]prospered and capital op-
pressed. What is the state of things now?
Labor at its wits end to get bread. Cap
ital at it's 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 will 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
1 Will show you the point where capital
was getting large profits. Until the crack