St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-24
MUTUAL DEPENDENCE.
DR.. Talmage Makes How Employers Ought
to Treat Employees the Subject of
His Sermon.
Urging That the Bridge Of Sympathy Be-
tween Capital and Labor Must be
Rebuilt.
Boycotting and Violence and Murder
Denounced as Different Stages
of Anarchy
How the Isle Of a Leprous World
Should be Turned Into u Para
distcaI Garden.
DIR. Talmage,s Sermon.

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| disical Garden.
DIR. Talmage's Sermon.
Special to the Globe
BROOKLYN, N. Y, May 23.-The sub
Ject OF DR.. Talmage's sermon this morning
was How Employers Ought to Treat En-
ployes. He chose two texts, the first from
Galatians ", Is: eff We bite and devouI
one another, take heed that we be not con-
sumed one of another;" and Philippians Ii,
4: Look not every man on his own things,
but every man also ON the things of others. u
DR.. Talmage said: The labor agitation
| will soon quiet. The mills will again open,
the railroads resume their traffic, our ma
tional properties again start. Of course
the damage done by the strikes cannot inn
so high as they were. Spasmodically
they may 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 of anarchy. God never
blessed murder. The worst use you can
put man to is to kill him. Blow up to-
morrow 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 tim
Der and stones will just fall back on the
bare hands of American labor. The worst
enemies of the working classes in the
United States and Ireland are their de-
| mepted cOadiutors.
ASSASSINATION
| The assassinations of Lord Frederick
Cavendish and Mr.. Burke in Phoenix park,
Dublin, Ireland, in the attempt to avenge
the wrongs of Ireland, only turned away
from the afflicted people millions of SYM
pathizers. The attempt to blow up the
house of commons, in London, had only
this effect-to throw out of employment
tens of thousands of innocent Irish people
in England. In this country the torch put
to the factories that have discharged hands
for good or bad reason; distractions on the
rail-tracks in 'front.' of midnight express
trains, because the offenders do not like the
president of the company; strikes on ship
board the hour they were going to sail, OF
in printing offices the hour the paper was to
go to press, or in the mines the day the
coal was to be delivered, or on house scat
| folding so the builder fails in keeping his
contract-all these are only hard blow on
the head of American labor, and cripple
its arms, and lame it's feet, and pierce its
heart. Traps sprung suddenly upon en-
ployers, and violence never took one knot
out of the knuckies of toll, or put one
farthing of wages into callouS palm.
Barbarism will never cure the wrongs of
civilization. Mark that! Now what we
want is to rebuild that bridge of sympathy
between capital and labor, and put the
trOwel to one of the abutments to-day; and
I preach more especially this morning to
employers as such, although what have to
say will be appropriate to all who are in
the house. The
OUTRAGEOUS BEHAVIOR
Of multitude OF Iaborers toward their en-
ployers during the last three months be-
haviOr infamous and worthy of most con-
dign punishment, may have induced some
employers to neglect the real Christian
duties that they owe to those whom they
employ. Therefore l want to say to you
whom l confront face to face, and those to
whom these words may come, that all ship
owners, all capitalists, all commercial firms,
all master builders, ali housewives are
bound to be interested in the entire welfare
of their subordinates. Years ago someone
gave three prescriptions for becoming a
millionaire. First. spend your life in get
ting and keeping the earnings of other
people. Secondly, have no anxiety about
the worriments, the losses, the disappoint-
ments of others. Thirdly, do not mind the
fact that your vast wealth implies the pow
erty of a great many people. Now, there
is not a man in my audience who would
consent to go out into life with those three
principles. to earn fortune. 1t is your
desire to do your whole duty to the men
and women in your service. Pay as large
wages as are reasonable, and as your bust
ness will afford. One of my earliest re-
membranes is of old Arthur Tappan.
There were many differences of opinion
about his politics, but no one who ever knew
Arthur Tappan, and knew HIM well,
doubted his being an earnest Christian. In
his store in New York he had room where
every morning he called his employees to-
gether, and he
PRAYED WITH THEM,
read the Scriptures to them. sang with
them, and then they entered on the duties
of the day. On Monday morning the ex-
ercises differed, and he gathered the young
men together and asked them where they
had attended church. what had been thei1
Sabbath experiences and what had been
the sermon. Samuel Budget had the
largest business in the west of England.
He ha' a room of his warehouse place
pleasantly furnished with comfortable
seats and Fletcher's Family Devotions and
Wesleyan hymn-books, and he gathered
his employees together every morning, and,
having sung. they knelt down and prayed
side by side-the employer and the en-
ployes. Do you wonder at that mans sue
cess, and that though thirty years before he
| had been partner in small retail shop in
small village, at his death he bequeathed
many millions. God can trust such mar
as that with plenty of money. Sir Titus
Salt had wealth which was beyond compu.
tation, and at Saltaire, England, he had 6
church and chapel built and supported by
himself-the church for those who pre-
ferred the Episcopal service. and the chape
for those who preferred the Methods
service. At the opening of one of his fac
tories he gave great dinner, and there
were 8, 500 people present, and in his after
dinner speech he said to these people gath
cred: Il cannot look around me and
FRIENDS AND wORKPEoPLE
without being moved. l feel greatly hon
ored by the presence of the noble man a
my side, and am especially delighted a
the presence of my wOrkpeople. l hope t.
draw around me a population that viii
enjoy the beauties of this neighborhood-
population of welI-pad. contented, happ.
operatives. I have given instructions tt
my architects that nothing is to be spared
to render the dwellings of the operatives {
pattern to the country. and if my life il
spared by Divine Providence hope to SCI
contentment, satisfaction and happiness
around me-" That is Christian characte
demonstrated. There are others in Thu
country and in other lands, on smalle
scale, doing their best for their employees
TheV have not f0rvnttan their own earl,