Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-06-12
LABOR'S WOES
lsxpmsfated Upon at the Brook.
lynn Tabernacle.
Grip, GOuge, Grind q Go. the
Principal Employers I'm
America To-day.
a beautiful Sermon.

BROOKLYN, N. T., May 30.-Rey. r.
Dewitt Talmage preached to-day in
The Brooklyn Tabernacle. the third OF
bis series of m on 1.-THE Labor
Question" entitled '.The Genuine
Hardships of the Working Classes"
The Brooklyn Tabernacle, which is
the most spacious Protestant church in
America, largely overiows at ordinary
timos; but during the present series OF
sermons TIE multitudes who cannot
get inside the building are vastly more
numerous.
DR.. Talmage's text is found in Isaiah
al, vii: $50 the carpenter encouraged
tho goldsmith, and he that smootheth
with the hammer him that smote the
anvil" He said:
You have seen in factories a piece OF
mechanism passing from hand to hand
and from room to room, and one me-
chanic will smite it, and another will
f1atten it. and another will chisel It,
and another will polish it, until the
work be done. And so the prophet
describes the idols of olden times as
being made. part OF them by one
hand. part of them by another hand.
C~srpentery comes in, old.boating
comes in, smlthery IN in-and
three or four styles of mechanism are
employed. $50 the carpenter en-
courageth the goldsmith, and he that
smootheth with the hammer him thai
smote the anvil" When they met,
they talked over their work and they
helped each other on with it. 1t was a
very bad kind of business: it was max
ing idols which were, an insult to the
Lord of Heaven. / have thought if
men in bad work can encourage each
other, ought not men engaged in hon.
est artisauship and in honest mechan.
ism speak words of good cheerp
The Bible comes down to the min
attic of everything.-- 1t tells us how
many dollars Solomon paid for his
horses. 1t tells us in Deuteronomy
what kind of a roof we ought to have
<n our house. 1t applauds the indus
try and generosity of the I~sraelitisA
spinsters. 1t gives us specimens of
old time needle work. leather making,
tanning establishment, pottery, brick
kiln, city water works, ship building.
Now, the beauty of our holy religion
is that God looks down upon all the
occupations and professions, find while
I cannot understand your annoyances
and you cannot understand mine, God
understands them all. He knows all
about the troubles of these men men,
toned in my text-the carpenter who
encouraged the goldsmith and he that
sm%ootheth with the hammer, and the
g%oldbeaters.
I will speak this morning of the gen.
eral hardships of the working classes.
You may not belong to this class, but
you are bound as Christian men and
women to know their sorrows and
sympathize with them; and as political
economists to come to their rescue.
There is great danger that the pros
porous classes, because of the bad
things that have been said by the false
friends of labor, shall conclude that all
this labor trouble is a ''hullabaloo''
about nothing. Do net 60 off on that
tangent. You would not, neither would
/, submit without protest to the op.
pressions to which many OF our labor.
eTs are subjected.
You do a great wrong to the labor.
ing classes if you hold them response.
BILE for the work of the scoundrelly an.
arohists. You cannot hate their deeds
more thoroughly than do all the indus
trial classes. At the head of the chief
organ of the Knights of Labor, in big
letters, l find the following vigorous
disclaimer:
'fLet it be understood by all the
world that the Knights of Labor have
NO a~filiation, association, sympathy or
respect for the band Of cowardly muir
derers, cut.throats and robbers known
rs anarchists, who sneak through the
country like midnight assassins, stir
ring up the passions of ignorant
foreigners, unfurling the red flag of
anarchy and causing riot and ~bloodshed.
Parsons. Spies, Fielding, Most and all
Eheir followers. sy~mpathizers, aiders
and abettors shOrld be summarily
dealt with. They are entitled to no
more consideration than wild beasts.
The leaders are towards and their fol-
lowers are fools"
You may do your duty towards your
employees, but many do not, and the
biggest business firm in America to-
day is Grip, Gouge, Grind 81 Company.
Look, for instance. at the wOes of the
womanly ~toilers, who have not made
any strike and who are dying by the
thousands, and dying by inches.
1 read a few lines from the last La
Dor Report, just out, as specimens of
what female employees endure. "Poi-
soned hands and cannot work. Had to
sue the man for fifty cents" Another
aAbout four months of the year can ny
hard work earn a little more than three