Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-05-29

are a free man and let no organization
come between you and your best in
~terests. DO not let any man or body
OF men, tell you where you shall work,
or where yOu shall not work, when
you shall work OF when you shall not
work. II a man wants to belong to u
labor organization. let. him belong. II
he does not want to belong to q labor
organization let him have perfect lib
erty to stay out. You own yourself.
Let no man put q manaclc upon your
hand or foot or head or heart,
l belong to a ministerial association
that meets once q week. I love all the
members very much We may help
each other in q hundred ways, but
when that association shall tell me to
quit my work and 90 somewhere else,
that | must stop right away because q
brother minister has been badly treated
down in Texas. l will say to that min
lsterial association: Get thee behind
me. Satan!' Furthermore, l have a
right to resign my pastorate Of this
church and say to the people: II de-
cline to work for you any longer. I
am going. Good. bye" But / have
no right, after l have quit this pulpit,
to linger around the doors on Sunday
mornings and evenings with a shotgun
to intimidate or hinder the minister
who comes to take my place. l may
quit my place and continue to be a
gentleman, but when l interfere with
my successor in this pulpit l become a
criminal and deserve nothing better
than soup in a tin bowl in Sing Sing
penitentiary. Here is a statement that
| would have every laborer put in his
memorandum book or paste in his hat,
aid every newspaper put at the head
OF its columns. There are now about
II 900 600 people in this country re-
ceiving wages and about 600, 600 be-
longing to organizations that control
their labor. | would have all the 600,-
000 DO es they please and would have
all the other IL. 400 600 do as they
please. You will admit that the 600,-
900 in such organizations ought not to
control the II 400 600 laborers not in
them. Your first duty, o laboring
man! is to o family. Let no one
but Almighty God dictate to you how
you shall support them. Work when
you please, where you please, at what
you please and allow no onefor a hun
dred milliOnth part OF a second to in
t%erfere with your right. When we
emerge from the present unhappiness,
n We % will, we shall find many
tyrannies broken and Labor and Capt.
tai will march shoulder to shoulder.
This day l declare the mutual de-
pendence of Labor and Capital. An
old tent-makcr put 1t just right
mean Paul-when he declared: 1.-The
eye canuot say to the hand, l have no
need Of thee" You have examined
acme elaborate machinery-a thousand
wheels, a thousand bands, a thousand
levers, a thousand pulleys, but all con
trOlled by n great water-wheel, all
the parts adjoined SO that if you Jared
one part you Jared all the parts. Well,
society is a great piece of mechanism,
q thousand wheels, a thousand pulleys,
a thousand levers, but all controlled
by one great and ever-revolviug force
the wheel of Gods providence. So
thoroughly is society balanced and ad-
justed. that il you harm one part you
harm all the parts. The professions
Ill lilo tInuSo iutclUc
pendent, Capital and Labor interde-
pendent, 80 that the man who lives in
u mansion or the hill, and the man
who breaks cobble.stones st the foot
of tho hill, affect each others misfor-
tune or prosperity. Dives cannot kick
Lazarus without hurting his own foot.
They who throw Shadrach into the
furnace get their own faces scorched
aud blackened. No such thing as in
dependence. Smite society at one
point and you smite tho entire com.
munity. Or to fall back on tho old
tent-maker's figure, what if the eye
should say: II am overseer of this
physical anatomy; | am independent
of all the other members; il there il
anything | despise it is those misera-
pie and low lived fingers!" What if
the hand should say: 81 am boss
workman; am Independent of
all the other members; look at
the callous in my palm and the
knots on my knuckles; If there is any
thing | hate it is the human eve, seat
ed under the dome Of the forehead, do.
ing nothing but look!'
Now, we come in this morning to
break up that quarrel, and we say
"Oh! sillg eye, how soon would yOu
swim in death If you had not the hand
to support and defend you. Oh! silly
hand you would be a mere fumbler in
the darkness if it were not for the hu.
man eye" 1.-The eye cannot say unto
the hand, I have no need of thee"
Relief will come to the working
classes of this country through a bot
ter understanding between capital and
labor. The capitalists of the country.
go far as / know them, are successful
laborers If the capitalists in this
house to-day would draw their glove,
you would see the broken finger nail.
the scar Of an old blister. here and
there a stiffeped finger joint.
The great publishers OF New York
and Philadelphia. 80 far as I know
them, were bookbinders or printers on
small pay. The carriage msnufsctur-
ers Of the country used to sandpaper
the wagon-bodies in the wheelwright's
shop. On the other hand, you will
find in all our great establishments
men on wages who used to EMPLOY
their one hundred and five hundred
hands.
Peter Cooper was a glue.maber. No
one begrudgad him his millions of dol
lars, for he built Cooper institute and
awuuu oman ita dOora for everv moor