Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-22

book shut and say, "Good for himl'
They stamp their feet with indignation
and say just the opposite of "Save the
working classes. - They have all thai,
| sympathies with Shylock, and not with
| Antonio and Portia. They are nluto.
Gratis and their feelings are internal
They are filled with irritation and irras-
cibility on this subject. To stop this
awful imbroglio between capital and
labor they will not lift SO much as the
tip end of the little finger,
| Neither will there be any qualification
OF this angry controversy through vio-
lence. God never blessed murder. Blow
up Tomorrow the oountry-seats on the
banks of the Hudson, and all the fine
houses on Madison square and BROOKLYN
! Heights and Brooklyn Hill and Ritten-
I house square and Beacon street, and all
the bricks and timber and stone will Just
fall back on the bare head of American
labor. The worst enemies of the work.
ing classes in the United States and Ire
land are their demented coadjutors. A
few years ago assassination-the assas-
sination of Lord Frederick Cavendish
and Mr.. Burke in Phoenix park, Dublin,
Ireland, 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 COM
mons, IN London, had only this effect:
to-. throw out Of employment tens Of
thousands of innocent Irish people in
England.
In this country the torch put to the
factories that have discharged hands for
good or bad reason; distractions on the
railtrack 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-aIl these are only.
hard blow on the head of American
labor, and cripple Its arms, and lame Its
feet and fierce its heart. As result of
one of our great American strikes you
find that the, operatives lost 500, 900
worth of wages aid have. had .pooter
wages ever. Apce. Traps sprung sud-
denly upon employers, and violence,
never took one knot out of the kuuckIe
of toll, or put one farthing of wages into
oallous palm. Barbarism will never
cure the wrongs of civilization. Mark
that!
Frederick the Great admired some land
near his palace at Potsdam, and he re-
solved to get it. 1t was owned by a mil
Ter. He offered the miller three times
the value of the property. The miller
would not take it, because it was the
old homestead, and he felt about 1t as
Naboth felt about his vineyard when
Ahad wanted it. Frederick the Great
was 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, 1 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.' eyes, said the king, ST
will take it. - "Then,' said the mil
Ter, eff your majesty does take it l viii
sue you in the chancery COURT At that
threat Frederick the Great yielded, his
infamous demand, And the most i'm
perious outrage against the working
classes will yet cover before the law.
Violence and contrary to the law will
never accomplish anything, but right
plish it.
Well, if this controversy between CAPT.
tai and labor cannot be settled by human
wisdom, it is time for us to look some
where else for relief, and it points from
my text roseate and iubiIant, and puts
one hand on the broadcloth shoulder of
capital, and puts the other hand on the
HoMEsPUN-CovERED SHOULDER OF TOLL
and says, with voice that will grandly |
and gloriously settle this, and settle |
Everything, FWhatsoever ye would |
that men should do to you, do ye even so |
to Them" That is, the lady of theI
household will say: ''I must treat the !
maid in the kitchen just as 1 would like |
to be treated if were downs stairs - and |
1t were my work to. wash, and cook. and
sweep, and it:were theduty of the mad
In the kitchen TO presides1n this psrlor. s"
The maid in the kitchen must say: ''If
my employer seems to be more prosperous
than 1, that is no fault of hers; 1 shall
not treat her as an enemy. 1 will have
the same industry and fidelity down.
.tairs as would expect from my subor-
linates, if happened to be the wife of
silk importer.
The owner of an iron mill having taken
4 dose of my text before leaving home
n the morning, will go into his foundry
and, passing into what is called the
pudding room, he will see man there
stripped to the waist, and beswested
md exhausted with the labor and the
oil, and he will say to him; "Why,
t seems to be very hot in here. You
ook very much exhausted. l hear
7our child is sick with scarlet fever.
II you want your wages little earlier
his week, SO as to pay the nurse and
get the medicines, just come into my
'ffice any time.
After awhile, crash goes the money
market, and there is no more demand
or the articles manufactured in that
ron mill, and the owner does not know
What to do. He says, "Shall stop the
mill, or shall run it on half-time, or
hall cut down the men g wages2" He
walks the floor of his counting-room all
lay, hardly knowing what to do Toward
vening he calls all the laborers together.
they stand all around, some with arms
.kimbo, some with folded arms, wonder
ng what the boss is going to do now.