Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-06-11

.d Discourse Of the Series
IN the Labor Question.
,,n,,oyers Ought to Treat Employees
.-..+ical Suggestions Outside the
o,estton of Better Wages and
shorter Hours.

shorter Hours.
T. Dewitt Talmage, in delivering
..,nd sermon on the labor question at
s,1vn Tabernacle, took two texts from
~ - illustrate his subject, as follows:
L. bite and devour one another, take
.not We be not consumed one of an.
.-fGalatians ", Is.
-, not every man on his own things;
."erv man also on the things Of others.
hilipplans H.,
labor agitation will soon quiet. The
will again open, the railroads re.
their traffic, our National properties
I, start. Of course the damage done
he strikes can not Immediately be re-
I'D. Wages will not be so high as they
!. spasmodically they may be high.
Init they will drop lower. Strikes,
ltber they are right or wrong, always
Ire la borers more than they do capital
You will see this in the starvation
Ie,t winter. Boycotting and violence
murder never pay. They are differ
stages of anarchy. God never blessed
der. The worst use you can put a man
ito kill him. Blow up tomorrow all
country seats on the banks of the Hud.
and all the fine houses on Madison
kre. and Brooklyn heights, and Bunker
and Rittenhouse square, and Beacon
Il, and all the bricks and timber and
les will just fall back on the bare
ds of American labor. The worst
mics of the working classes of the
ted States and Ireland are their
ented coadjutors. The assassina.
5 Of Lord Frederick Cavendish
Mr.. Burke in Phoenix Park, Dub
Ireland, in the attempt to avenge the
ngs of Ireland, only turned away from
afflicted people millions of sympa-
ers. The attempt to blow up the
se of Commons in Londo on had only
efect-to throw out of employment
Of thousands of innocent Irish people
ngland. In this country the torch put
The factories that have discharged
lis for good or bad reason; obstruc-
on the r%ail-tracks in front of mid
BIT express trains, because the offenders
lot like the president of the company;
Ess on shipboard the hour they were
g to sail, or in printing offices the
the paper was to go to press, or in the
es the day the coal was to be delivered,
b house scaffoldings so Che builder fails
eeping his contract-an these are only
Ed blow or the head of American la
and cripple its arms, and lame its
and pierce its heart. Traps sprung
enly on employers. and violence,
rtook one knot out of the knuckles of
OR put n farthing Of wages into a
JUS palm. Barbarism will never cure
rongs of civilization. Mark thatl
gradually the damages done the la
by the strikes will be repaired, and
Important things ought now to be
E5hole tendency of our times, as you
noticed, is to make the chasm be-
IN employer and employee wider and
r. In olden time the head man of the
hy, the master builder, the capitalist,
head man of the firm worked side by
with their employees, working some-
at the same bench, dining at the
table; and there are those here who
smember the time when the clerks Of
commercial establishments were &C.
med to board with the head men of
I'm.
that is changed, and the tendency is
axe the distance between employer
fmploye wider and wider. The ten
is to make the employee feel that he
cnged by the success of the capitalist
. make the capitalist feel:
Pw my laborers are only beasts of
m; must give so much money for so
drudgery, just so many pieces of sill
pr so many beads of sweat"
Pther words, the bridge of sympathy
Ken down at both ends. That feel
vas well described by Thomas Car.
hen he said:
son, of st. Dolly understood, buc.
f'llke says to his men: "Noble spin.
ms is the hundredth thousand we have
wherein l mean to dwell and plant
lneyards. The hundred Thousand
is mine, the daily wage was yours.
noble spinners; drink my health
haS groat each, which 1 give you over
boye."
what we want is to rebuild that
OF sympathy, and l put the trowel
OF the abutments to-day; and 1
more especially this morning to
yers as such, although what 1 have
Will be appropriate to all who are in
use.
outrageous behavior of a multitude
Ofers toward their employers during
\ three months, behavior infamous
0fthy of most condign punishment,
ave induced some employers to neg
ne real Christian duties that they
nose whom they employ. There
"ant to say to you whom I confront
race, and those to whom these
may come, that all ship.owners, all
us's' all commercial firms, all mas
loers, all housewives are bound to
.esVed In the entire welfare of their
mates. Years ago some one gave
descriptions for becoming a million.
peha your life in getting and keep
earnings of other people.
ave no anxiety about the worri-
'He losses, the disappointments Of
not mind the fact that your vast
implies the poverty of a great many
'iere is not a man in my
. VINO would consent to go out
WIN those three principles to earn
as. IL is your desire to do your
luty to the men and woman in vorr