The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-07-01
TALMAGE's SERMON.
Third Discourse Of the Series On
saThe Labor Question"

Third Discourse OF the Series On
sThe Labor Question.
The Trials and Tribulutions Of the Work.
ing Classes-Things Which Should
Encourage the Patient Bear
ing Of Present Ills. HkSsSAs
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage delivered the
third discourse of his series on sThe Labor
Question" in the Brooklyn Tabernacle,
taking for his text: rs
So the carpenter encouraged the gold
smith. and be that smootheth with the ham,
mer him that smote the anvil.-Isaiah xiii, Il
He said: You have seen in factories
piece of mechanism passing from hand to
hand and from room to room, and one me-
chanic will smite it, and another will
iatten it, and another will .chisel it,
and another will polish it until the work
be done. And so the prophet describes
the idols of olden times as being made,
part Of them by one hand, part of them by
another hand. Carpentry comes in, gold
beating comes in, smithery comes in, and
three or four styles OF mechanism are en-
ployed. $50 the carpenter encouraged
the goldsmith and he that smootheth
with the hammer him that smote the an
VIII" When they met they talked over
their work and they helped each other on
with it. It was a very bad kind of bust
ness; 1t was making idols which were an
insult to the Lord of Heaven. I have
thought If men in bad work can encourage
each other, ought not men engaged in
honest partisanship and in honest mech
anism to speak words Of good cheer?
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Twill speak this morning Of the general
hardships of the working classes. You
may not belong TO this class, but you are
bound as Christian men and women to
know their sorrows and sympathize with
them, and as political economists
to come to their rescue. There is
great danger that the prosperous
classes, because of the bad things that
have been said by the false friends Of Ia
Dor, shah conclude thar all this labor
trouble is "hullabaloo'' about nothing.
Do not go of on that tangent. You would
not, neither would I, submit without pro-
test to the expressions to which many of
our laborers are subjected. as. z..-. =.
You do great wrong to the laboring
classes II you hold them responsible for
the work OF the scoundrelly Anarchists.
You can not hate their deeds more thor
oughly than do all the Industrial classes.
At the head of the chief organ of the
knights Of Labor, in big letters, I find the
following vigorous disclaimer:
Let It be understood by all the world that
the Knights OF Labor have no affiliation, as
ISOLATION, sympathy or respect for the band
robbers known as Anarchists, who she ak
through the country like midnight assas J..
sins. stirring up the passions of ignorant
and causing riot and bloodshed Parsons,
Spies, Fielding, Most and all their followers,
sympathizers, aiders and abettors should be
summarily dealt with. They are entitled TO
no more consideration than wild beasts
The leaders are towards and their followers
are fools.
You may do your duty toward your EN-.
ployes, but many do not, and the biggest
business firm in America to-day is Grip
Gouge, Grind & Co.
Look, for instance, at the woes OF the
womanly toilers, who have not made any
strike and who are dying by The thousand.
and dying by inches. 5saa FL -
s'ia just ,sn specimens en- & rh
male employees endure:
Poisoned hands ana can not work. Had t,
sue the man for fifty cents.
Another sms ssesz So al, 80 +
About four monshsso of the year cam, b,
hard worn. earn q iistie more than three dol
g - s
ose v 70
ao.sr now sn MAKES axes wtappers at one dollar pc
- 20 aa as.
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,rss kMts ~ Y pnr essao o nayesth
hands, twenty five cents: eat,n1 ! niece = =
bred e your loom .tonesd Mar alsostor sit
nk 81 nssoot: Sakine q ormk OF whters AM
,tion - - " 80
i Some OF thu worst Villains a. 81. onr !. cs;tia
are the EMPLOYERS Of these women The,
beat thens down 10 the l.at ,oernv and 8,
20 schest them ont Of ,that.' sTha wonos
must deposit. ae dellar or. two baforas al
gets the rarmsnts 10 work onss Whan. ~
work is done it in sharulv s.insrecta6.s IN
most insignificant fiaw h nicl<ed amt an
the wapes refused and .omat;mas IN
dollar deUesited not given back III
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