The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-06-17


the line of steamers that you are sailing
in, but do not jump overheard in the mid
die of the Atlantic. Be a little earlier
than usual at your post of work while this
turmoil lasts, and attend to your occupa
ton with a little more assiduity than has
ever characterized you.
NY brotherly counsel, in the second
place, is to those who have resigned work.
1t is best for you and best for everybody
to go back Immediately. Do not wait to
see what others do. Get on board
the train of National prosperity
before it starts again, for start it will,
start soon and start mighty. Last
year in the city of New York there were
forty.five general strikes and 1T shop
strikes. Successful strikes, ninety-seven;
strikes lost, thirty -four; strikes pending
at the time the statistics were made, fifty
nine; strikes compromised, thirty-two.
Would you like me to tell you who will
m axe the most out of the present almost
universal strike? I can and will. Those
will make the most out of it who go first to
work.
My third word of brotherly advice is to
duOUuoT CldSS VI kuUO1 Ct o-udhiOiy3 euoSO
who have been a long time out of work.
How many of them? Before this present
trouble began there were nearly 100000
people in this country out of work and
could not get work. have worn myself
out again and again, as many of you have,
to get employment for those who be-
sought it. In some cases we succeeded, in
others failed. My brsthe rly counsel is to
the nearly 1900, 900 people who could not
get work before this trouble began, and
who have themselves and their families to
support, to go now and take the vacated
places. Go in and take these places
a million and half strong. Green
hands you may be now, but you will not
be green hands long.
My sentiment is full liberty for all 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 a vacation, for we have
only opened the outside door of this CONT.
nent, and there is room in this country fol-
800, O00, 900 people, and for each one of them
home, and livelihood and God.
So, however others may feel about this
excitement, as wide as the continent, an
not scared a bit. The storm will hush
Christ will put his foot upon it as upon ag'
itated Galilee. As at the beginning, chao!
will give place to order as the spirit of Goo
moves upon the waters. But hear it, work
ingmen of America! Your first step towart
light and betterment of condition will b
an assertion Of your individual independ
ence from the dictation of your fellow
workmen. You are a free man, and let NJ
organization come between you and you
best interests. Do not let any man or any
body of men tell you where you shall
work, or where you shall not work; whel
you shall work or when You shall no
work. If man wants to belong to labo
organizations let him belong. If he doe
not want to belong to labor organization
let him have perfect liberty to stay out
You own yourself Let no man put
manacle on your hand, OF foot, or head, o
heart.
belong to a ministerial association tina
meets once a week. | love all the mem
bers very much. We may help each othe
in hundred ways, but when that associa
ton shall tell me to quit my work and g
somewhere else, that I must stop RICH
| away because brother minister has bee
| badly treated down in Texas, will say t
| that ministerial association: "Get the
behind me, Satanp Furthermore, hav
right to resign my pastorate of thi
church and say to the people: 81 declin
/ to work for you any longer. am going
! "Good.by." But linger around the door
on Sunday mornings and evenings with
shot gun to intimidate or hinder the min
lister who comes to take my place. | ma
quit my place and continue to he gentle
man, but when l interfere with my sue
cessor in this pulpit become crimins
and deserve nothing better than soup in
tin bowl in Sing Sing penitentiary. Her
is a statement that i would have ever
laborer put in his memorandum book {
paste in his hat, and every newspaper p,
| at the head of its columns. There al
now about $4,000, 900 people in this countr
receiving wages, aud about 100000 be
longing to organizations that contrt
their labor. I would have all til
100000 do as they please, a. d l woul
have all the other II, 900 do as the
| PASdSCs 1Ou w IAl dumit buttb tuc UoOsUVU l
such organizations ought not to contrt
the IL .400, 600 laborers not in them. Yor
first duty, 0 laboring man. is it to yol
family. Let no one but Almighty Go
dictate to you how you shall suppo
them. Work when you please, where yo
please, at what you please, and allow n
one for hundredth- millionth part of
second to interfere with your right. Whe
we emerge from the present unhappines
as we soon will, we shall find MANY tyraI
mics broken and labor and capital wi
march shoulder to shoulder.
Relief will come to the working class,
Of this country through a better under
standing between capital and labor. B.
fore this contest goes much further it wi
be found that interests are Identical; VIII,
helps one, helps both; what injuries on
injuries both. Show me any point in tx
worlds history of 5000 years where cal
ital was prospered and labor oppressed,
where labor was prospered and capital Of
pressed. What is the state of things nov
Labor at its wits end to get bread Cal
ital at its wits end to pay the taxes ar
keep the store and factory running. Sho
me any point in the last fifty years whe
capital was getting large accumulate
and Twill show you the point at WIFI
labor was getting large wages. Show n
APPOINT at any time in the last fifty yea