Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-05-17

Chinory-d SnOuShDu Wneeiht eiV"''
bands, a thousand levers, thousand
| pulleys, but all controlled by one great
water wheel, all the parts Adorned SO
that II you Jared one part you Jared Gil
the parts. Well, society Is a great piece
of nechanism-a thousand wheels,
thousand pulleys, thousand levers, but
all controlled by one great and ever-re-
volviug force--the wheel of Gods provi.
dence. SO thoroughly is society balanced
and adjusted, that II you harm one
part you harm all the parts. The profess
sions interdependent, all the trades inter-
dependent, capital and labor interde-
pendent, SO that the man who lives in the
mansion on the hill and the man who
breaks cobbestones at the foot OF the
hill affect each others misfortune or
prosperity. Dives cannot kick Lazarus
without hurting his own foot. They who
J throw Shadrach into the furnace get their
own faces scorched and blackened. NO
| such thing as independence. Smlte soci-
ETY. at any one point and you smile the
entire community. Or, to fall back on
the old tentmaker's figure, what II the
eye should say: 81 am overseer OF this
physical anatomy; am Independent OF
all the other members; II there is any.
thing despise 1t is those miserable and
low.lived nngers!" What II the hand
should say: ~ am boss workman; | am
independent of all the other members;
look ut the callous In my palm and the
knots Of my knuckles; II there Is, any
thing hate It Is the human eye, seated
under the dome Of the forehead, doing
nothing but look" Now, we come in this
morning TO break up that quarrel, and we
say: "Oh! silly eye, how soon you would
swim in death II you had not the hand to
support and defend you. Oh! silly hand,
you would be mere fumbler In the dark
ness II 1t were not for the human eye"
The eye cannot say unto the hand, al
have no need Of thee.n
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 their interests are
identIcal what helps one helps both;
what Injuries one Injuries both. Show me
any point in the worlds history Of 5000
years where capital was prospered
and labor oppressed, or where labor
was prospered and capital oppressed,
What is the state OF things nowS
Labor at It's wits end to get
bread. Capital at its wits end to
pay the taxes and to keep the store and
factory running. Show me any point in
the last fifty " ars where capital was get
ting large accumulation, and | will show
you the point at which labor was getting
large wages. Show me 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 will be no relief for the working
classes until there is a 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 ad-
journment of our national prosperity.
When the capital of the country mallgns
labor 1t is the eye curslng the hand.
When labor maligns capital it is
the hand cursing the eye.
The capitalists OF the country, so far
as | know them, are successful laoorers.
1.-THE capitalists in this house to- day would
draw their glove, you would see the
broken lnger-nnil, the scar OF an old
blister, here and there q stiffened finger
joint. The great publishers of New York
and Philadelphia, so far as know them,
were bookbinders or printers on small
| HNJs Ahp lllhHuidNLuItIS VI
country used to sanupaper the wagon
bodies in the wheelwright's shop. On
| the other hand, you will Ind in all our
great establishments men on wages who
used to employ their 100 or 800 hands.
| Peter Cooper was glue-maker No
one begrudged him his millions Of dol
lars, for he built Cooper institute and
swung open its doors for every poor mans
son, and said TO the day laborer "Send
your boy up to my institute II you want
him to have n splendid education" And
| a young man of this church was
the other day walking in Greenwood
cemetery and helsaw 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," they
said, Owe put these flowers on his grave
because 1t was through him we got our
education'' Abraham Van Nest was a
harness. maker in New York. Through
economy agd Industry and skill he got a
great fortune. lie gave away to help
Others hundreds of thousands Of dollars
| shall never forget the scene when |, q
| green country lad, stopped at his house,
and after pas sing the evening with him,
he came 10 the door and came outside
auu SAUL 'atNTei Dewitt, Is sou TO get
| books with DON'T cay anything about
| It," And J i',Yer did till the good old
man was gone The wealthy men OF the
twentieth centnry 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 and poets aud orators.
Henry Clay was "the mill-boy of the
Slashes." Hugh Miller, a stone. mason;
Columbus, weaver; HALEY, soap
boiler; Arkwright, barber; the learned
bloomfield, shoemaker; Hogarth, an
engraver of pewter plate, aud 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
q Niagara suspension bridge; 1t is only a
step, and the laborers here will cross over
and become capitalists, and the capital
lists viii cross over and become laborers
Would TO God they wonld shake hands
While they are crossing, these from one
side and those from the other side.
The eombatants in this great war be.