Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-06-12
DIR. TALMAGE ON STRIKES.
The Anarchist and the Workingman
Not Allied---Advice to Employers.

Sunday morning to hear Rev. DIR. T.
Dewitt Talmage preach upon the la
Dor question. All the aisles were
crowded and there seemed to be an
unusual number Of people present
who knew howtosing. DIR. Talmage
said: "The labor agitation will soon
cease; all the railways will resume
operations and national prosperity
will start up again. 1t will be some
time, however, before the country
RECEIVERS from the damage. Strikes
always damage the laboring man
ten times more than the capitalist.
During these strikes the laboring men
of the country have lost $100,000,000,
never to be recovered again, and my
heart breaks as | think of it. The la
boring men should always remember
that it does not make a great differ
ence to the capitalist if his fortune is
made $780, less by a strike; but to
the man who works for his bread it
means home or no home. Spasmodi-
cally the strike may make wages
higher, but in the end the loss falls
on the man who creates it. Boycott
ting and murder never help labor.
They never pay, and are only differ
ent stages Of anarchy. The poorest
use you can put a man to is to kill
him, and the worst enemies Of the
workingmen are their demented and
cowardly coadjutoas. The murder of
Lord Cavendish in Phenix Park
only served to deprive the downtrod-
den Irish Of the worlds sympathy,
and the attempt to blow up the Eng
lish Parliament house only resulted
in throwing thousands Of Irish out of
work on English territory.
"The sudden throwing up of work
on the house just when the builder
has contracted to complete, or in the
printing Office just at the hour of 60
ing press, or in the mines when coal
must be had to carry out the compa-
ny's obligations-all these affairs only
serve to cripple the American labor
er. All the traps set for capitalists
never put one cent in the pocket Of
honest labor, and all the agitators
toiling never united one knot that
binds the laboring mans horny hand.
In brief, you should remember that
barbarism can never correct the
wrongs Of civilization.
"The time is coming when those
who impose wrongs upon the labor
ing man will come before the law.
The honest individual workman has
no sympathy with anarchy or the
outlaws who urge it. / will read the
following from the newspaper organ
of the knights of Labor:
"Let us be understood by all the
world that the Knights of Labor have
no utilization, association, sympathy
or respect for the band of cutthroats
and robbers who are melting blood
shed and riot. All the sympathizers
and aiders of these men are towards,
and all their followers are fools.
"This shows how honest labor re-
CARDS the red flag and its followers.
employers, 1 charge you to pay
as large wages as are reasonable, and
as you can afford. Decide by your
own conscience what you can pay.
Because another employer pays too
little that is no excuse for you. Re-
member, also, that when you say
Sod bless YOU toyour men that God
bless YOU won't buy them food or
pay the rent. At least once a year
go among your employees and in
quire into their condition. tits theem-
ployer's duty to look after the physi-
cal welfare of the employee. There
are workshops in this country where
the atmosphere is death. AT 2:3O
o'clock this afternoon there will be
buried a man who has done more for
hygiene and sanitation than any man
of his time, DR.. Dio Lewis. l have
known him in this and other coun
tries, and all his life he did good fol
others. His book to boys and girl
, has increased the longevity of hi
race, and his name will live through
all time. The employer is response
BILE for the welfare of his men, ant
, has no right to impose hardships o'
them. l cannot and never could un
C derstand why car drivers SHOULD
D stand, They might just as well 81
down. Thousands of clerks in thi
city used to work from ga, m. to l
p. m. This is simply inhuman, an
k it seems to me that all employer