Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-05-24
EMPLOYERS VS.. EMPLOYEES.
How the Former Should Treat the
Latter.
LABOR AGITATION WILL SOON QUIET.
Some Golden Advice from Dr., TaImage
on the Great Question OF
the Day.
ISnscinl 10 he Rsdisker.

second in his series OF sermons Oh III
great Labor discussion, the subject being
How Employers Ought to Treat Em
ployees." The opening hymn was:
"Glory to God on high, -.
Let heaven and earth reply"
Dr.. Tslmage chose two texts, the frs
from Galatians v. Is: ye bite and de
YOUR one another, take heed that ye be no
consumed one Of another" and Philippi
ans ii. 1: Look not every man on hi
own things, but every man also on the
things of others" FollowiDgis is
THE SERMON IN FULL:
The Labor agitation will soon quiet
The mills will again open, the railroads
resume their traffic, our National prosperi
ties again start. Of course the damage
done BY the strikes cannot imm ediately be
repaired. Wages will not be so high as they
were. Spasmodically they may be higher,
but they will drop lower. Strikes whether
right or wrong, always ipjure laborerS more
than the capitalists. You will see this in
the starvation of Eext winter. Boycotting
and violence and murder never pay. They
are different stages Of anarchy. God never
blessed murder. The worst use you can put
a man to ia to kill him. Blow up tomorrow
all the country seats on the banks OF the
Hudson and oil the fine houses on Madison
Square and Brooklyn Heights, aud Bunker
Hill, and Rittenhouse Square, and Beacon
street, and all the bricks and timber 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 demented ssitators
ssssssinations Of LORD
Frederick Cavendish and Mr.. Burke in
PbUnix Park Dublin, Ireland, in the at
tempt to avenge the wrongs of Ireland,
only turned away from that afflicted paople
millions Of sympsthizers The attempt TO
blow up the House Of Commons, in Lon
don, had only this effect-io throw out Of
tens Of thousands OF innocent
Irish people iu Eogland In this country
the torch put to thefsctorieS tat have dis,
charged hands for good or bad reason; |;
distractions on the rail tracks in front OF
express trains, because the offend
ers do not like the president Of the com
pany; strikes oD shipbosrd the hour they
we're going to sail, or in printing offices the
hour the paper was to 20 10 press, or in
the mines the day the coal was to DO deiiv
ered or on house scstfoldiDgs so the builder
fails in keeping his contract-a'l these are
only hard blow on the head of American
labor, and cripple its arms, aud Lane its
feet, and pierce it's heart. Traps eprung
suddenly upon employers, aud violence
never took ons knot out Of the knuckles oI
toll, or put one t6rthiug Of wages into q
callous palm. Rarbnriona will never cure
the wrongs OF civilization. Mark that
FREDERICK TEE GREAT
admired some land near his palace at
Potsdam, and he resolved to get it. 1t
was owned by g miller. He offered the
miller three times the value OF the property.
The miller would not take it because i
was the old homestead, aud he felt ~
Nsboth fslt about his vineyard when Ahab
W Iuted it. F:elerick the Great WA
rough aud terrible man snd he ordered
the miller into his presenoe, sLa the king
with o stick III his hand "a stick with which
be sometimes struck the officers of state -
said to the miller: Nov, have offered
Won three times the value Of tnat p;0psrty
and II you won't cell ii III la.e II auyh0S.
The miller SAID: Your Majesty, you
won't" "Yes," said the king, 81 will take
IT." Then" said the miller, If Yoar
Msiasty does take it Wili sue - T;5a IA IA a., a.
Chsncery Court. At that threat Frederick
the Great yielded his Infamous demand.
And the most imparious outrage against
the working classes will yet cover before
the law. Violence aud contrary to the Law
will never accomplish anything, but right.
eousness and according to the law will &C,
complish it.
But gradually the damage done the
lsborer by the strikes will be repaired
aud some important things ought to be
said.
as you have noticed, ia to make the chas m
between employer and enploye wider and
wider. In olden time the head man ot
the factory, the master builder, the capital,
ist, the head man Of the firm worked side
By side with their employees, working some
lines at the same bench, dining at the
same table; and there are those here who
can remember the time when the clerks o.
large commercial establishments were
accustomed to board with the head men o
the firm.
All that is changed, and the tendency i,
to make the distance between employer
and employs wider and wider. The ten
dency is to make the enploye feel thst h
is wrouged by the success Of the capitalist
snd to make the capitalist feel. Now ny
laborers are only beasts Of burden; l mus
give so much money for go much drudgery
Just so many pieces Of silver for so mau,
heads of sweat" In other words th
bridge Of sympathy is broken down at botl
ends. That feeling was we'll described b.
Thomas Carlyle when he said; "Plugson
of ST. Dolly Undershot, buccsueer-Ek
ssys TO his men: Noble spinners, this i
the hundredth thousand we have gained
wherein mean to dwell and plsut m
VINEYARDS. The hundred thousand peun
is mine, the daily wage was yours. Adieu
noble spinners; drink my health with thi
grOat, es:h WbIch ! give you over sn
above"
Now what we want is TO rebuild tts
bridge Of sympathy, and l put the troV
to one Of the sbutments to-day; and
preach more especially this morning
employers as such, although what hsy
to say will be appropriate to ell who are j
the house The
OUTRAGEOUS BEHAVIOR
of multitude of lahcrers toward the
employers during the last three month
behavior infamous and worthy OF no
con6ign punishment, may have induce
some employers to neglect the real Chr
tian duties that they owe to those who
they employ. Therefore want to cay
you whom / confront face to fac
sBd those to whom these wore
may come, that all ship owners, eli csI
talists, all commercial firms, all mast
builders, al housewives are bound to
interested in the entire welfare Of tbs
subordipatea SeSzs ego some one ga
three prescriptions for becomiDga miiliC