The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-06-16

MIN pare. LII Jake III Us d peTSOudi lafoL
If you will help this man into some kind OF
business where he can support his family"
| There is hardly resDectable man in this
house who has not written such q letter as
that. Nigh two million. Now, my advice
t. those nigh two million is that for the sup
port of themselves and their families, they
60 up and take the vacated places. Nearly
two million strong. That is my sentiment
Full liberty for all men to strike who want to
I want to take their places. tApplause.l Hush!
You will be green hands for while, but you
will not be green hands long. For those who
have resigned their places perhaps other oc-
! equations will open, for we are just opening
/ tie outside door of this continent. This con-
! cinent can support eight hundred million peo-
pie, and there is room in this country so that
every man shall have livelihood. home
and God. So you see, while some
not scared bit This tempest is
going to be hushed and Christ is going
| to put His foot on it as He did on agitated
Galilee. As at the beginning, chaos is going
to turn into beautiful order as the spirit OF
God moves upon the face of the waters. But
here is word that would like to say in the
hearing of the American people, especially in
| foot. Your first step toward light and to-
ward the betterment of your condition, oh,
workmen of America, is in your assertion OF
| your personal Independence from all dlcta-
! tion of other workmen. You are free
| men. We fought to get our freedom
aare in America. You are tree men. Let
no man or organization come between you
and your personal rights. Let no organlza-
ton tell YOU where YOU shall work, where
you shall not work when you shall work,
whan YOU shall not work. If q man wants to
belong to a labor organization let him have
full liberty to do so. If man wants to stay
out of labor organization let him be just as
free to stay out. You are your own master.
Let no man put manacle on your wrist,
or ON your heart. l belong to labor or
Canizatiop, q ministerial association, that
meets once a week. I love all the members.
We can help each other iu hundred ways.
But when that ministerial association shall
come and tell me to quit work here because
some brother minister has b ZEN badly treated
in Texas laughter, l will tell that minis
terial association: :"Get thee behind me, Satan
Iaughter). I may have right to leave my
work here; for some reason l may say to
this people: II am done, will work for you
40 longer; good bye, am going But |
have no right Sunday mornings and
Sunday nights to linger around the
door Of this church with a shotgun
10 intimidate the man who comes to take my
place / may leave nv work here and still
be gentleman; but when l attempt to inter-
fere with the man who comes to take my
place then become q criminal, and deserve
nothing better than the thin soup in tin
bowl in Sing Sing Penitent:ary. There is one
thought that wish every newspaper man IN
America would put at the head Of column,
and which every laborer would put in his
memorandum book and paste in his hat
the fact that there are in the United
States 12,OOOOOO earners Of wages.
: There are about 900, 600 Of them that belong
to labor organizations of various styles My
theory is, let the 6O0,OO who belong to the
organizations do as they please. Let the H.
4OO, 900, who do not belong to labor organiza-
tIons, do as they please. But there is no law
of God or man, or common sense, or common
Justice that will allow 900 men, who do
belong to labor organizations, to dictate to
L, 400, 600 men who do not belong to them.
Freedom for those inside organizations.
Freedom for those outside. Now, when
We shall emerge from this present unhappi-
ness, as we shall emerge, Labor and Capital
will march shoulder to shoulder, and they
will have broken some tyrannies that need
to be broken. Labor in this country has two
tyrannies to break-the capitalistic tyranny
and the tyranny of fellow wovkmen; and
when American labor can do that it will be
free. Mr. Powderly is right and Mr.. Irons
is wrong. The old tent maker had it right
Il mean Paul-when he said The eye
cannot say 20 the hand, | have no need
| of thee.a That is one of the most skillfully
put things l ever read, by the old tent
maker. "Tha eye cannot say to the hand, l
have no need of thee" What if the eye should
say: IF there is aught despiSe, it is those
four fingers and thumb; can't bear the
sight OF you; you are of no use anyhow; get
out of my ways" Suppose the hand should
say to the eye: II am boss workman; you
couldn't get along without me; if there is
anything l despise, it is the eye seated under
the dome of the forehead doing nothing but
look.' Oh, you silly eye, how soon you
would swim in death if the hand did
not support you. Oh, you silly hand, how
soon you would be fumbling round in the
darkness if the eye did not give you lantern.
That is the first thing to he understood IN
this country-that Labor and Capital are alb
solutely, entirely dependent on each other:
You 20 into a large factory. A thousand
wheels, thousand bands, thousand levers,
thousand pulleys, and all controlled by one
great water wheel, but all the parts
Of the machinery in some way re-
lated to all the other parts. That is
human society. A thousand wheels, a thou
sand levers thousand pullies, all controlled
by the wheel of divine providence, but all
the parts related to each other. Dives can
not kick Lazarus without hurting his own
foot They cannot throw Shadrach into a
| furnace without getting their own faces
scorched and blackened That which smites
| CAPITAL Smites Labor, and Uice rerSa. Point
back into history and wherever you find
Capital largely prosperous you find wages
| large; wherever you find wages large you
find Capital prosperous. When Capital de-
nounces Labor it is the eye cursing the
| hand. When Labor denounces Capital it is
! the hand cursing ths eye. The Capitalists
sc ,ptr fOY. ha
| full laborers, and among all the styles Of
work and in all the shops you will find men
who were capitalists. In other words, they
are all the time crossing over Men who are
capitalist; are becoming laborerS, and men
who are laborers are becoming capitalists.
1t is not any great Niagara suspension bridge
over the chasm: it is only step Would
God they would shake hands while they pass.
| If the capitalist in this house would draw his
glove you would see a broken finger nail,
the scar of an old blister, a Suffered
finger Joint. Nearly all the capitalists of
to-day are successful laborers Nearly all
the great publishing houses Of America are
conducted by men who set type or were en-
gagged in book binding. Nearly all the men
who own carriage Factories used to Sandpa-
per the wagon wheel to get it ready for the
painter. Peter Cooper was gluemaker and
he went on until he glued together an i'm
mense fortune, and he established that
princely institution, the Cooper Institute,
which has mothered 500 such philanthropies
| in the United States. and I never
pass it without saying within myself:
What magnificent monument that man
built to himself and to Christian charity"
The laborerS of this country have no greater
friend, because Peter Cooper practically said
to every laboring man in this country: do
you want your boy to have q splendid educa-
ton? If you do send him up to my Institute;
it will cost you nothing" An elder of this
church was some time ago walking in Green.