The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-05-27

ty-Reyeni strikes lost, thifty-fonr, strikes
pending at the time the statlstica we're
made, iifty.ninei strikes compromised,
thirty-two, Would you like me 10 tell you
who will make the most out Of the present
almost universal strikei / can and will.
Those will make the most out OF II who go
first TO work,
NY third word Of brothorly advice Ia to
another class of laborers-namely, those
who haze been long time out Of work.
How many Of thomY Before this present
trouble began there were nearly two mill
lion people In this country out of work and
could not got work. have for the last
ttn years been busy much Of the time In
trying TO get people work who asked for II.
have worn myself ont again and again, M
many Of You have, to get employment fop
those who hcsought II, In some cases w0
succeeded, In others failed, My brOtherly
counsel Is to tho nearly two million people
Who could not got work before this trouble
began, and who have themselves aud their
families TO support, to 90 now and take tho
vacated places, Go IN and take those
places million and half strong, Green
hands you may be now, but you will not bo
green hands long, My sentiment is full
liberty for all who want TO strike TO do no,
AMI full liberty for all who want TO take the
vacated places, Other industries viii open
fol those who are now taking vacation,
FOR we hove only opened tho outside door
Of this continent and there N room In this
country for eight hundred million people
aud for each one Of them q home and a
liyelil God and q God,
So, however others may feel about this
excitement aR wide as the continent, / am
not scared q bit, The storm win hush,
Christ will put Ills foot upon Il M upon
AgItNtod ONlilco, AS No The beginning, chaos
will give place to order aa The spirit Of God
moves upon the waters, But hruit work.
ingmcn of Amoncnl Your first step to-
ward light and bottorment Of condition will
be an assertion Of your individual indo-
pcndanco from tho dctntion Of your fcl-
low-workmon You are u free man and
Let no organization come between You and
your hcst interests, DO not lot any man,
or any body Of men, toll You whore you
shall work, or whore You linll not
work. whom you shall work, on when
You shall not work, II man wants
to belong to labor organization,
let him belong, II he does not want
II
have perfect liborty to stay out, You own
yourself, Let no man put mnnaclo on
your hand or foot or head or heart,
belong TO ministerial association that
meets once wook ! love oil the mdm-
bcra very much, We may help each other
In hundred ways, but when that Ossocia.
ton shall tell me TO quit my work and go
somewhere else; that 1 must stop right
away because o brother minister has been
badly treated down In Texas, ! will say TO
that ministerial association, sect thee be-
hind me, Sntnnm Furthermore Al have n
night TO resign my pNatorato OF this church
and say TO the people, "l decline 10 work for
You any longer ! am going, Good.by"
But | have no right, after have quit this
pulpit, 10 lingor around the doors on Sun.
day mornings and evenings with u shotgun
10 intlmiduto or hinder the minister who
comes to take my place, | may quit
my place aud continue 10 be- gentle.
man, but whom | Interfere with my sue
cCsgpr IN this pulpit become criminal
and deserve nothing better than aoup In u
tin bowl In Sing Sing Ponitentury, Hero
" u statement that | would have cyory
lnhorcr put In his memorandum book or
pnalo In his hat, and every newspaper put
al the hond Of H. columns. Thoro are now
about twolyo million people In this county
receiving wages, aud about giX hundred
thousand belonging to organizations that
control their labor ! would have all iho
GOO,OOO do m they please, and would
have Oll the other ll,iO0,0O0 do M they
ploaso, You will admit that the GOO,OO In
such organizations ought not 10 control
the ll,lOO,OOO lNhorora not IN thom, Your
first duty q lNboing mani " TO your
inmily. Lot no one but Almighty God die.
tate 10 YOU how You shalt support thom,
Work when YOU please, whore You please,
NJ what You please, and allow no one for q
hundred millionth part Of second 20 inter.
fore with your right, Whom we emerge
from the prcscnt unhnppinoss, ns We soon
will, We shall find many tTannios brOkon,
and labor and capital viii march shoulder
to shoulder
This day declare the mutual dopond-
onoo Of labor and capital An old tont-
makor put II Just right moan Paul
whom ho dcolarcd' "Iho eye cannot say 10
the hand, have no need Of thoc,N You
have examined sumo elaborate machinery
y thousand Wheola, thousand bands,
thousand lCyors, q thousand pulOya, but
Oll controlled by one great whlCr. wheel, all
the parts Odioinod no that if you Jared ono
part you inrr0d all the parts, We'll, society
" great pioCo of mechanism thousand
whcols, n thousand pulloys, thousand
lovors, hut oil controlled by ono great and
oyor.royolying forcc=tho wheel Of Gods
SO thoroughly IL society bol-
oncod and adjusted that " You harm ono
part you harm all parts, Tho professions
intordcpondont, Nll the tfadoa nlordopond-
ont, capital and labor intcrdcpondont, no
thnt tho man who liyoa In u mansion on
the hill, aud the man who breaks cobblo.
stones NJ the foot Of the hill, affect each
olhor'e misfortune or prosperity Diyoa can.
not kick Lazarus without hurting his own
foot, Thoy who throw ShNdrach into tho
furnace get their own fnoos acorchod and
blOckoned, No such thing IN indopend.
onoo, Smito society NJ amy one point and
Won umiio the ontiro community, Or TO
inll back ON the old tent makers figure,
what II tho oyo should says "l am over.
eeer Of this physical anatomy, | am indo.
pondont OF oil the other mombora if thoro
N anything doepisc II IA those miserable
and low.lyod ihgcrsl" What II the hand
should say ~ am the boss workman, lam
independent Of NIL the other momborai
took nt the callous IN my palm aud the
knots Of my knucldcs ir there In anylhingI
hate II is the human eye, seated under the
dome Of the forehead doing nothing but
lookl' Now, We como In this morning 10
break up that quarrel, aud We say; 90
ally oycs how soon YOU would swim In
death u you had not the hund TO support
and defend you, Ohlly hand. You would
be mere fumblor In The darkness II II
were not for the human oye' "Tho oyo
cannot say unto the hand, have no need
of thee"
Relief will como 10 the working classos OF
this country through better understanding
between capital aud labor, Before tho
rontost goes much further II viii be found
Mat their interests are identical, what
helps one holps bolhi what iuiuros one In.
luros both. Show me any point In the
worlds history Of ak thousand years
Whrrn nnpitnl WA proapnfnu mud lnboT IN.