News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-05-22

on the banks OF inc IIuuSOh, "LiNA o.
the fine houses on Madison square and
BROOKLYN heights and Brooklyn hill
and Rittenhouse square and Beacon
street, and all the bricks and TIMBER
and stone will just fall back on the
bare head of American labor. Inc
worst enemies of the working classes
in the United States and Ireland are
their demented coadjutors. A few years
aOo assassination-the assassination OF |
Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr..
Burke in Phoenix park, Dublin, Ire
land, in the attempt to avenge the
wrongs of Ireland only turned away
from that afflicted people millions OF
sympathizers The attempt to blow
up the house of commons in London,
had only this effect: to throw out OF
employment tens of thousands of in
nocent Irish people in England.
In this country the torch put to the
factories that have discharged hands
for good or bad reason; obstruc-
tons on the rail track in front of
midnight express trains because the
offenders do not like the president of
the company; strikes on shipboard
the hour they were going to sail, or
in printing offices the hour the paper
was to go to press, or in mines the
day the coal was to be delivered, or
on house scaffOldings so the builder
fails in keeping his contract-all these
are only hard blow on the head of
American labor, and cripple its arms,
and lame its feet, and pierce its heart.
As a result of one of our great Amer
lean strikes you find that the opera
tives lost four hundred thousand dol
lars worth of wages, and have had
poorer wages ever since. Traps sprung
suddenly upon employers, and VIC
lence, never took one knot out of the
knuckle of toll, or. put one farthing
of wages into a callOus palm. Bar
barism will never cure the wrongs of
civilization Mark that
THE ETERNAL LAW OF RIGHT.
Frederick the Great admired some
land near his palace at Pocsdam, and
he resolved to get it. l. was owned
bv miller. He offered the miller
three times the value of the property.
The miller would not take 1t, because
it was the old homestead, and he felt
about it as Naboth felt about his vine
ward when Ahab wanted it. Frederick
the Great was a rough and terrible
man. and he ordered the miller into
his presence; and the king, with a
stick in his hand--a stick with which
he sometimes struck his officers OF
state-said to this miller: Now, L
have offered you three times the value
of that property, and if you won't sell
it I'll take it anyhow" The miller
said: Your majesty, you won't"
Yes" said the king, Il will take 1t"
Then" said the miller, eff your
majesty does take it, will sue you in
the chancery coSrt." AT that threat
Frederick the Great yielded his infa-
nous demand And the most imperi-
Gus outrage against the working classes
will vet cover before the law. VIC
lence and contrary to the law will
never accomplish anything, but right
eousness and according to law will ac-
| complish it.
Well, if this controversy between
! CAPITAL and Labor cannot be settled by
human wisdom, it is time for us to
look somewhere else for relief, and it
points from my text roseate and jubi-
liant, and puts one hand on the broad
cloth shoulder of Capital, and puts the
other hand on the homespun covered
shoulder of Toll, and says, with a
voice that will grandly and gloriously
settle this and settle everything,
:Whatsoever We would that men
should do to you, do ye even so to
them" That is, the lady of the house
hold will say: Il must treat the maid
in the kitchen just as l would like tc
be treated if | were down stairs, and i
were my work to wash, and cook, anC
sweep. and it were the duty of thu
maid in the kitchen to preside in thi!
parlor." The maid in the kitchen
must say: eff my employer seems t.
be more prosperous than l, that is nC
fault of hers. / shall not treat her a!
an enemy. will have the same in
dustry and fidelity down stairs as
would expect from my subordinates /
happened to be the wife of a silk i'm
porter.
The owner of an iron mill, having
taken a dose of my text before leaving
home in the morning, will go into hi
foundry, and, passing into what /
called the pudding room, he will Sc
man there stripped to the waist, ant
. ] L tod q a
Dor and the toll, and he will say t.
, him: ''Why, it seems to be very no
in here. You look very much ex
) hausted. I hear your child is sicl
| with scarlet fever. If you want you
wages little earlier this week, so a
) to pay the nurse and get the medi
, cines, just come into my Office an
| time"
5 KINDNESS INSURES FAITHFULNESS.
3 After awhile, crash goes the none
5 | market, and there is no more deman
{ for the articles manufactured in tina
f iron mill, and the the owner does nC
r know what to do. He says: Shall
a stop the mill, or shall run it on ha
a time, or shall l cut down the men
\ wages2" He walks the floor of b
:. counting room all day, hardly know
t ing what to do. Toward evening b
= calls all the laborers together. The
stand all around, some with arm
j akimbo. some with folded arms, wOI
+ dering what the boss is going to
e now. The manufacturer says: "Mel
1 business is bad; | don't make twent
g dollars where ! used to make one hui
s dred. Somehow there is no deman
n now for what we manufacture, or bu
very little demand. You see, | am
/: vast expense, and | have called yC
= together this afternoon to see VIII;
G you would advise | don't want
= shut up the mill, because that wOu
|. force you out of work, and you ha'
Z always been very faithful, and | III
a you, and you seem TO like me, and Il
q BARNS must be looked after, and yor
e. wife will after awhile want ne
n dress. | don't know what to do"
n There is a dead halt for a minute
" two, and then one of the worKmt
= steps out from the ranks of his fellON
d and says: Boss, you have been We
a good to us, and when you prosper
g. we prospered, and now you are IL
W tight place, and | am sorry, and
have got to sympathize with you.
D. don't know how the others feel, bu
propose that we take off twenty ]