The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-06-03

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daton wo have written, such as: "Givt |
this man work in your store
Id your factory, In your foundry
know him, know him 10 be an industrious
man his family are starving to death; give
him place; I'll take it as q personal favoi
II you will help this man into some kind ol
business where he can support his family
There Is hardly respectable man IN TIM
house who has not written such letter az
that Nigh two million. Now, my advice
/, those nigh two million is that for the SUP
port of themselves and their families, they
20 up and take the varntcd Places rca-y
two million strong That is my sentiment
Full liberty for nil men to strike who wantto
strike, and full liberty for all who
want to take their places. tApp'anse.l Hushl
You will be green hands for while, but you
will not be green hands long. For those who
a!,s rss'rs.ei heir places perhaps otrer oc-
cupations will OPEN for we arc lustr rh,e pien,nl M
tinent can support ight hundred million peo
Prs, srrr o,,vrv r. room in this country so THAI
every man shall have livelihood, home
and a God. So you see, while some
are in depair about the times, I am
not scared q bit THIS tempe7t is
going t, be hushed and Christ Is going
to nut His foot on 1t as He did on agitatei
Galilee. As at tho beginning, chaos is going
to turn into beautiful order as the spirit Of
God moves upor the face of tho waters Rut
here is a word that would like to say in the
hearing of the American peop'e esoeciallv n
the hearing of those who toll with hand md
foot. Your first step toward light AMI 70.
ward the betterment of your condition, oh,
workmen of America, is Ia your assertion of
your personal independence from all dicta.
tion of other ,workmen. You are free
men. We fought to get our freedom
here IN America You are free men. Let
no man or organization come between you
AMI your perst stnal rights. Let no organi a.
tion tell you where you shall work, WHERE
YOU shall not work when you shall work.
when you shall not work If a man wants to
belong to labor organization let him have
full liberty to do so. If man wants to tay
cut Of labor organization let him be just al
free to Btay out. You are your own master.
Let no man put manacle on your writ,
or on your heart. | belong to a labor OF.
ganizaton, ministerial association, that
meets once week. | love all the members.
We can help each other in hlndred ways.
But when that ministerial association shall
come and tell me to quit work here because
some brother minister has b en- badly treated
in TIE xas daughter, | will tell that minis
tera} association" :"Get thee behind me, Sata1.'
tLaughter). l may have right to leave my
work here; for some reason ! may say to
this people: 81 am dons, ! will work for you
no longer; good hye, ! am going Bat |
have no right Sunday mornings and
sunday nights to linger around the
door of this church with shotgun
to intimidate the man who comes to take my
place. l may leave my work hoce and still
be a gentleman; but when attempt to inter-
fere with the man who comes to take my
place then / become a criminal and deserve
nothing better than the thin souD in a tin
bowl in Sing Sing Penitent y. There is one
thought that wish every newspaper man in
America would put at the head of column,
and which every laborer would put in his
the fact that there are in the United
States 12,000,000 earners of wages.
There are about 800, 600 of them that belong
to labor organizations of various styles My
theory is, let the 100000 who belong to the
organizations do as they please. Let the H.
1000, who do not belong to labor organi2a-
tIoEs, do as they please. But there is no law
OF God or man, or common sense, or common
Justice that will allow 60l,0O0 men, who do
belong to labor organizations, to dictate to
II 400 900 men who do not belong to them.
Freedom for those inside organizations.
Freedom for those outside. Now, when
we shall emerge from this present unhappi-
ness, as we shall emerge, Labor and Capital
will march shoulder to shoulder, and they
to be broken. Labor in this country has two
tyrannies to break-the capitalistic tyranny
and the tyranny of fellow wo kmen; and
when American labor can do that it will DO
free. Mr.. Powderly is right and Mr.. Irons
is wrong The old tent maker had it RIGHT
Il mean Paul-wnen he SAIL ''lno eye
cannot say to the hand, l have no need
of thee" That is one Of the most skillfully
put things | ever read, by the old tent
maker "Tha eye cannot saw to the hand, |
have no need of thea" What if the eve should
say: .'If there is aught | despise, il is those
four fingers and q thumb; can't lear TIE
sight of you; you are of no use anyhow: get
out of my ways" Suppose the hand saoul
say to the eye II am boss workman; you
couldn't get along without me; if there is
anything despise, it is the eye seated under
the dome of the forehead doing nothing but
look Oh, you silly eye, low soon you
would swim in death if tho hand did
not support you. Oh, you silly hand, how
soon you would be 1umbling round in the
darkness if the eye did not give You lantern.
That is the first thing to lie understood in
this country-that Labor and Capital are ab-
solutely, entirely dependant Oh each other.
You 60 into large factory. a thousand
wheels, thousand ands. thousand levers,
thousand rulleys, and all controlled by one
great water wLeei, but all the parts
OF the machinery in some way re-
lated to all the other parts. That is
human society. A thousand Wheels, a thou
sand levers, thousand pulEe7 al controlled
by the wheel of divine providen e, lut all
the parts related to each other. Dives can
not kick Lazarus without hultng his own
foot. They cannot throw Sbaira h into q
furnace without getting their own faces
scorched and bla"kened. That which snitcs
Capital smites Labor, aad uice rersl. Point
back into history and wherever YOU find
Capital largely pros Gus you find wages
large; wherever you find wages large you
find Capital prosperous When Capital de-
nounceS Labor it is til, eye cursing tie
hand. When Labor den1unces Capital it is
the hand cursing III, eye. The Capitalists
of this country are tor the most rart success
full laborers and among all the styles of
work and in all the shops yol will find men
who were capital is. In other words, they
are all the time crossing over. Men who are
ca.itali t5 ale becoming labo8ers, AMI men
| who are labcrers are becoming capitalists.
1t is not any great Niagara susl ension bridge
| over the chasm; it is only step Wouil
| God they would shake hands whi,e they "a s.
| If the capitalist in this house would draw his
| glove YOU would see a bro@en finger nail
| the scar of an old blister, a stifieae1
| finger joint. Nearly all tho capitalists Of
to-day are successful laborers Nearly al
the great publish ng houses of America are
| CONuuCUou Dy Inen WHO SCI " bS VI hOiS Sa
gagged in book binding. Nearly all the mer
who own carriage ia tories used to sandpa
per the wagon wheel to get it ready for thu
pointer. Peter Cooper was gluemaker ant
he went on until he glued together an i'm
mense fortune, and he established tina
princely institution the Cooper Institute
which has mothered 500 su h philanthrop.es
in the United States, and l nevel
pass it without saying within myself
"What magnificent monument that MAJ
built to himself AMI to Christian charity.
The laborers of this country have no greater
friend, because Peter Cooper practically salt
to every laborng man in thii country: I'D
you want your boy TO have splendid educa
ton. If you do send him up to my Institute
it will cost you nothing" An elder Of nj
church was some time ago walking in Green
wood and saw two young men puttln
flowers on Peter Coopers grave ID
thought: "Why they must be friend
0r relatives of the old man.
But after while he got into conversation
with them, and they said: NO we are no
relatives, but we were poor boys, and we go
our education from Peter Ccop1r, and tina
Is the reason we put flowers on his grave
II the people who were bic sed by that glo
rious old man should put flowers on his grave
they would be mountain high. Abram Nal
Nest was harness maker in New ORR
Year after year he stood at the bench. II
1 had larpe SttccacS He rod mo many me