The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-05-28

out again and again, Is many OF you have,
20 get employment for those who be-
sought it. In some cases we succeeded, in
others failed. Ny brotherly counsel IL to
the nearly 1000, 900 people who could not
get work before this trouble began. and
who have themselves and their families to
places. Go in and take these places
q million and . half strong. Green
hands you may be now, hut you will not
be green hands long.
Ny sentiment is full liberty for al 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 q vacation, for we have
only opened the outside door of this CONT
nent, and there is room in this country for
S0O, O0O, 600 people, and for each one of them
. home, and q livelihood and God.
So, however others may feel about this
excitement, as wide as the continent, am
not scared 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! Four first step toward
light and betterment Of condition will be
an assertion of your individual independ-
ence from the dictation of your fellow
workmen. You are free man, and let no
organization come between you and your
best interests. Do not let any man or any
body of men tell you where you shall
work, or where you shall net 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 labor organization
let him have perfect liberty to stay out.
You own yourself. Let no man put q
manacle on your hand, or foot, or head, or
heart.
belong to ministerial association that
meets once a week. love all the menu
hers very much. 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 1 must stop right
away because brother minister has been
badly treated down in Texas, will say to
that ministerial association: "Get thee
behind me, Satanw Furthermore, have
a right to resign my pastorate of this
church and say to the people: 81 decline
to work for you any longer. / am going,
"Good.by." But 1 linger around the doors
on Sunday mornings and evenings with q
shot gun to intimidate or hinder the min
lister who comes to take my place. I may
quit my place and continue to he gentle.
cessor in this pulpit l become a criminal
and deserve nothing better than soup in
tin bowl in Sing Sing penitentinry. Here
is statement that l would have every
laborer put in his memorandum book or
paste in his hat, and every newspaper put
at the head of its columns. There are
now about II .O00. 900 people in this country
wages. and about 690,0OO be-
longing to organizations that control
their labor. 1 would have all the
SOC, coo do as they please. aud l would
have all the other II 100000 do as they
please. You will admit that the 600 .OH0 in
such organizations ought not to control
the II 400 ,0Oo lsborers not in them. Your
first duty, o laboring man! is it to your
family. Let no one but Almi ghty God
dictate to you how you shall support
hem. Work when you please, where you
please, at what you please, and allow no
,ne for a hundredth- milionth. part of a
second to interfere with your right. When
We emerge from the present unhappiness,
rs we soon will, we shall find many tyran.
HES broken and labor and capital will
march shoulder to shoulder.
This day I declare the mutual depend.
,nce Of labor and capital. An old tent
maker put it just right mean Paul
when he declared: 1.-THE eve can not say
% the hand, have no need of thee" You
lave examined some elaborate machinery
"A thousand wheels, a thousand hanIs, =
thousand levers, n thousand pulleys, hut
Ill controlled by one great water wheel,
Ill the parts adioined so that if you Jared
me part you Jared all the parts. Well,
'ociety is great piece of mechanism, a
thousand wheels, a thousand pnlleys, a
thousand levers, but all controlled by one
great ever-revolving force-the wheel
# Gods providence. So thorough.
Y is society balanced and ad.
listed, that il you harm one
,art you harm all the parts. The
interdependent, all the trades
dent, so that the man who lives
n a mansion on the hill, and the man who
freaks cobble stones at the foot of the
ill. affect each others misfortune or pros
,erity. Dives can not kick Lazarus with. !
tut hurting his own foot. They who |
brow Shadrach into the furnace get their
'wn faces scorched and biackened. No
UGH thing as Independence. Smite socie. |
y at any one point and you smite the en-. |
ire community. Or, to fall back on the |
Id tent-maker's figure, what IL the eye
hould say: 81 am overseer Of this physi. |
al anatomy: am Independent of all the |
'ther members; il there is any thing I |
lespise, it is those miserable and low |
ived fingers" What if the hand should |
ay: II am boss workman: I am indie. |
'endent of all the other members; look at |
he callous in my palm and the knots of |
ny knuckles; if there is any thing hate
lome of the forehead, doing nothing but
ook'" Now, We come in this morning |
o break up that quarrel, and we say: |
oh, silly eye, how soon you would swim |
{ you had not the hand to support and |
efend you. Oh, silly hand, you would 1
re . mere fulnbier in the darkness il It
we're not for the human eye" "The eye
an not say unto the hand, Il have no
iced of thee.'"
Relief will come to the working classes
( this country through . better UNDER
landing between capital and labor. Be-
ore this contes. goes much further it will
. found that interests are identical; what
clips one, helps both: what Injuries one,
njures both. Show Inc any point in the
'orld's history Of 5000 years where cap
al was prospered and labor oppressed. or
there labor was prospered and capital OPP
ressed. What is the state Of things now!
.abor at its wits end to get bread. Cap