Morning journal and courier., 1886-06-21
JUSTICE AND LABOR.

Rev. MT. John 0. KimbalI be1oTe
 The Labor Lyceum-Hfs Views on
 The Question Capital and AaDof.
 Rev. John O. Kimball, of Hartford, lec- tured before the Labor Lyceum at Looms Temple of Music yesterday afternoon, his subject being "Justice and Labor" In his opening remarks the speaker referred to the different phases of the labor question, which has agitated the country for the past few months, and asserted that the cause of the outbreak at this time was the disparity of reward between capital and labor. He said that in Great Britain two thirds of the peo- pie toll in rags that the other third may live in luxury, and in this country labor receives on an average about one dollar per day that capital may be enriched, and it was no won der the laborer should get little uneasy and feel as though he should get a fair share of what he earns. This condition of things comes partly from dishonesty, but mostly from the fact that labor is more plenty than the demand. Another cause is the fact that nature produces more muscle than capital and still another and important cause is the enormous increase of machinery that takes the place of manual labor. In our country ten out of every hundred are continually out of job because they cannot find work With out crowding someone else out. It IS estl- mated that more than a million of men are constantly out of work. Another cause of this outburst of trouble is the fact that labor has come to have higher and nobler aspira- tons, and through education have grown to be men and women and not hirelings. Among all the marks of progress the one mark most significant is these very labor troubles the country is now experiencing. If these troubles are an outgrowth along the track of progress, what are the truths! Nothing can be vainer than the statement that the troubles of the past few weeks are like passing cloud. They have come to stay; to eat at our tables; to sleep in our best beds with their wives and children. Out of their troubles is sure to come 8 more perfect organization of labor. Standing alone he sees no chance against capital, and although his plans are crude to correct the errors. While they may some times fail in their endeavors to get higher wages, yet they never fail in getting higher manhood Men are being educated for that grand system of co operation which firmly believe is to be the final state of the indus trial world. What is needed at present Is
 cutting down the labor supply by cutting down the hours of labor. The shortened hours of labor will only do part of what is to be done. Intemperance and vice among the Iaboring classes must be curbed. Over nine hundred millions of dollars is annually expended for strong. drink, which mostly comes out of the laboring classes. It is naught but waste and crime. Is it any wonder that labor staggers under such load? Nine hundred million dollars saved from intemperance alone put into bread and clothing means employment for one million more men.
 In conclusion the speaker asserted that so-
 -Jo 1a1ax aRrp death, but if the proper remedies are applied a cure will surely be effected. God is solv- ing the problem as man cannot do. Turn the channels of labor into the way it should flow and ont of it shall come a new social state from which labor's table everywhere shall be fa5