Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-19

try 8 1000 900 hungry men and women.
Now, 3 1000, 900 hungry people can not
be kept quiet. All the enactments of
legislatures and all the constabularies of
the cities, and all the army and navy of
the United States cannot keep 5000 200
hungry people quiet. What then? Will
this war between capital and labor be
settledby human wisdom? Never. The
brow of the one becomes more rigid, the
fist of the other more clinched.
But that which human wisdom cannot
achieve will be accomplished by Christi
anity if it be given full sway. You
have heard of medicines so powerful that
one drop would stop q disease and re-
store patient; and 1 have to tell you
that one drop of my text properly adj
N mustered will stop all these woes of
society and give convalescence and COM
plete health to all classes. ''Whatso-
ever ye would that men should do to
you, do ye even so to them. -
shall first show you this morning how
this controversy between monopoly and
hard work cannot be stopped, and then
will show you how this controversy will
be settled.
Futile remedies In the first place there
will come no pacification to this trouble
merely because they are rich. There is
no laboring man on earth that would not
be rich if he could be. Sometimes
through a fortunate invention, or
through some accident of prosperity, a
man who had nothing comes to large es-
tate, and we see him arrogant and super
cilious, and taking people by the throat
Just as other people took him by the
throat. There is something very mean
about human nature when 1t comes to the
top. But it Is no more q sin to be rich
than it is sin to be poor. There are
those who have gathered 8 great
estate through fraud, and then there are
mIllionaires who have gathered their for
tune through foresight in regard to
changes III the markets, and through
brilliant business faculty, and every dol
lar of their estate is as honest as the
dollar which the plumber gets for mend
ing pipe, or the mason gets for build
ing a wall. There are those who keep in
poverty because of their own fault.
They might have been well of, but they
SMOKED OR cHEwED UP THEIR EARNINGS,
or they lived beyond their means, while
others on the same wages and on the
same salaries went on to competency
I know a man who IS all the time COM
planning of his poverty and crying out
against rich men, while he himself keeps
two dogs, and chews and smokes, and is
filed TO the chin with whisky and beerI
Micawber said to David Copperheld:
''Copperfield, my boy, one pound of IN
come, twenty shiIlings and sixpence sx-
penses; result, misery. But, Copper
field, my boy, one pound income,
expenses nineteen shillings end sixpenee;
result, happiness. And there are vast
muItitudes of people who are kept poor
because they are the victims of their own
improvidenoe. It is no sin to be rich and
it is no sin to be poor. 1 protest against
this outcry which 1 hear against those
who, through economy and self-denial
and assiduity, have come to large for
tune. This bombardment OF commercial
success will never stop this controversy
between capital and labor.
Neither will the contest be settled BY
cynical and unsympathetio treatment of
the laboring classes. There are those
who speak of them as though they were
only cattle or draught horses. Their
nerves are nothing, their domestic COM
fort is nothing, their happiness is moth
ing. They have no more sympathy for
them than hound has for hare. or