The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-06-11
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Third Discourse Of the Series On
The Labor Question"
The Trials and TribuluttOns of the Work.
Ing Classes-Things Which Should
Encourage the Patient Bear-
ing Of Present HIS.

Encourage the Patient BEAR
Ing Of Present nls.
Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmags delivered the
third discourse Of his series on ssThe Labor
Question" in the Brooklyn Tabernacle,
taking for his text:
So the carpenter encouraged the gold.
smith, and he that smootheth with the ham,
mer him that smote the anvii.-Isaiah. xii. I.
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
hatten it, and another will chisel It,
and another will polish it until the work
be done. And 30 the prophet describes
tue 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-.
ploNed. $50 the carpenter encouraged
the goldsmith and he that smootheth
with the hammer him that smote the an
vii" When they met they talked over
their work and they helped each other on
with it. 1t was a very bad kind Of BUSH
ness: it was making idols which were an
insult to the Lord of Heaven. have
thought if men in bad work can encourage
eacn other. ought not men engaged in
honest partisanship and in honest mech.
anism to speak words of good cheer:
will speak this morning OF the general
hal dships of the working classes. You
may not belong to this class, but you are
bound as Christian men avd 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
hav. been said by the false friends of la
Dor. shall conclude that all this labor
trouble is a "hulla baloo" about nothing.
Do not go of on that tangent. You would
not. neither would l, submit without pro-
test to the expressions to which many Of
our laborers are subjected.
You do great wrong 20 the lahoring
classes If you hold them responsible for
the work os 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, find the
following vigorous disclaimer:
Let Il be understood by ali the world that
che Knights o! Labor have No utilization, as
eociafion, sympathy or respect for the nd
II coSardly murderers, cut threats and
-obhers known As Anarchists. who sneak
through the country like midnight assas-
sins. stirring IN the passions Of ignorant
foreigners unfuriing the red flag of anarchy
and causing riot and bIoodshed Parsons.
Spies. Fielding. Most and all their followers,
sympathiZ-r~. aiiers and abettorS should be
summarily dealt with. They are entitled to
no more consideration than wild beasts.
The leaders are towards and their fol overs
are fools.
You NAV do your duty toward your EN-.
ployes. but many do not, and the biggest
business firm in America to-day is Grip,
Gouse. Grind & Co.
Look, for instance. at the woes of the
womauly toilers, who have not made any
strike and who are dying by the thousands
and dying by inches.
| read Few lines from tn last labor re-
port. just out. as specimens Of what fe-
male employees endure:
Poisoned hands and can not work. Had to
sue the man for nifty cents.
Another:
About four months of the year can, by !
hard work, earn a little more than three dol
lars per week
Another:
She now makes wrappers at one dollar per
dozen; can make eight wrappers per day.
Auoth,r:
We girls in our establishment have the
following fines imposed: For washing your
hands, TWENTY-FIVE cents: eating a piece of
brs ad at your loom. one dollar; also Tor sit
ting on a stool: taking a drink of water. and
many triiing things too numerous to men
zion
Some of the worst villains of our cities
are the employers of these women. They
beat them down to the last penny and try
to cheat them out of thai. The woman
must deposit a dollar or two before she
gets the garmsnts to work on. When the
work is done it is sharply inspected, the
most insi gnificant flaw Is picked out, and
the wages refused, and sometimes the
dollar deposited not given back. The
Women's Protective Union reports a case
where one of the poor souls, finding q
place where she could get more wages, re-
solved to change employer, and went to
get her pay for work done. The employer
says:
81 hear you are going to leave me:"
"Yes," shs said. "ani have come to get
what you owe me"
He made no answer. She said: Are
you not going to pay mel"
"Yes," he said. 81 will pay you" and he
kicked her down stairs.
never swore . word in all my life, but
I confess that when read that I fek
stirring within me that was not all devo-
donal.
BY what principle of justice is il that
women in many of our cities get only two
thirds as much as men, and in many cases /
only half: Here is the gigantic injustice |
that for work equally well, if not better |
done, woman receives far less compensa- |
ton than man. Start with the National
Government. Women clerks in Washing |
ton get 500 for doing that for which men |
receive 81 800. The wheel Of oppression is |
rolling over the necks of thousands OF |
women who are at this moment in despair |
about what they are to do. Many of the |
largest mercantile establishments of our |
cities are accessory to these denominations, |
and from their large establishments there !
are scores Of souls being pitched Of INTO !
death. and their employers know it Is |
there God. Will there be . judgment:
tell you, if God rises up to redress wom- |
ans wrongs, many Of our large establish
ments will be swallowed up quicker than |
. South American earthquake ever took |
down q city. God will catch these op ,
pressors between the two mill stones of |
his wrath, and grind them to powier.
Why is it that q female principal in Q
school gets only SS25 for doing work for 1
which a male principsl gets 81 $50: Ihear
from all this land the wall of womanhood. /
Man has nothing TO answer to that wall 1