Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-06-05
EMPLOYERS DUTY.
Talmage Tells How Employers
Should Treat Employees.
The Latter Are Human Beings
with Immortal Souls.
They Should Not Be Overworked
or Ill Used.

or Ill USED.
Christian Employers Should Re-
member Their Duty.
BROOKLYN, n. Y, May 2S.-Rev. T..
Dewitt ralmage, d. d., to-day
preached the second in his series Of
sermons on the great labor discussion,
the subject being ''How Employers
Ought to Treat Employees" The
opening hymn was:
''Glory to God on high,
Let heaven and earth reply"
DIR. Talmage chose two texts, the
first from Galatians v, Is: eff ye bite
and devour one another, take heed that
ye be not consumed one Of another"
and Philippians ii. a: "Look not every
man on his own things, but every man
also on the things Of others" Follow.
ing is the sermon in full:
The labor agitation will DON quiet.
The mills will again open. the rail-
roads resume their traffic, u national
properties again start. OF course
the damage done by the strikes can
not Immediately be repaired. Wages
will not be SO high as they were.
Systematically they will be higher.
but they will drop lower. Strikes
whether right or wrong, always injure
laborers more than the capitalists.
You will see this in the starvation Of
next winter. Boycotting and violence
and murder never pay. They are
different stages ct anarchy. God
never blessed murder. The worst use
you a puts man is to kill him. Blow
up tomorrow all the country seats on
the banks Of the Hudson and all the
fine houses on Madison Square and
Brooklyn Heights and Bunker Hill and
Rittenhouse Square and Beacon street,
and all the bricks and stones Will just
fall back on the bare hands OF Ameri-
q labor. The worst enemies of the
working classes in the United States and
Ireland are their demented conductors.
Assassination-the assassinations OF
Lork Frederick Cavendish and Mr..
Burke in Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ire
land, in the attempt to avenge the
wrongs of Ireland, only turned away
from that afflicted. people millions OF
sympathizers. The attempts to blow
up the house Of commons, in London,
had only this effect-to throw out o.
employment tens of thousands of limo
cent Irish people in England. In this
country the torch put to the factories
that have discharged hands for good
or bad reason; obstruclions on the rail.
tracks in front of midnight express
trains. because the offenders do moi
like the president of the company;
strikes on shipboard the hour they
were going to sail, or in printing Of
fees the hour the paper was going to
press, or in mines the day the coal was
to be delivered, or on house scaffold.
ings so the builder fails in keeping his
c~ontract-all these are q hard blow on
the head of American labor, and GRIP.
pie its arms, and lame its feet, and
pierce its heart. Traps sprung sud.
denly upon employers, and violence
never took one knot out of the
knuckles OF toll, OF put one farthing OF
wages into a callous palm. Barbarian
will never cure the wrongs of c~iviliza'
ton. Mark that!
The whole tendency Of u times, Al
you have noticed, is to make the chasn
between employer and employee wider
and wider. In olden time the head
man of the factory, the master builder,
the capitalist, the head man of the
firm worked side by side with their
employees, working sometimes at the
same bench, dining at the same table;
and there are those here who can re-
member the time when the clerks of
large commercial establishments were
accustomed to board with the head
men OF the firm.
All that is changed, and the tenden-
cy is to make the distance between
employer and employee wider and
wider. The tendency is to make the
employe feel that he is wronged by the
O OF the capitalist, and to make
the capitalist feel, 'Now my laborert
are only beasts of burden; l must
give so much money for so much
drudgery, just so many pieces OF silver
for SO many beads of sweat" In
other words, the bridge of sympathy
is broken down at both ends. That
feeling was we'll described by Thomas
Carlyle when he said: "Plugson, OF
St. Dolly Undershot. b~uccaneer.like
says to his men: Noble spinners, this
is the hundredth thousand we have
gained. wherein I mean to dwell and