Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-05-30
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINES sun.
DAY SERMON.
Subject: The Old Fight to Be Set
tied"

TEXT: whatsoever ye mould that men
should GO TO YOu, do ye eren O.. INTO them d"
Matt vii, y.
Two hundred and fifty thousand laborers
IN Hyde Park, London, and tie streets of
American and European cities filled with
professions of workH1l carr ing banners
brings the Sloject Of Labor and CAPITAL to
the front. That all this was done in peace
and that result, in many places arbitra-
ton has taken place, Is hopeful sign.
The greatest war the world has ever seen
Is between capital and labor The strife IS
not like that which in history is called the
Thirty ears War, for it is a war OF CEN
turtles, X Is OF the five continents it
is war hemiSpheric. The middle classes
III this country, upon whom the nation has
depended for holding the balance OF power
ard Tor fctng as mediatOrs between thu
Two extremes, are diminishing; and if
Cnjngs 20 on at the same ratio as they have
tor the last twenty years been going or, it
will not De very long before there will be no
middle class IN this country, but all will be
very ricr OF very poor, princes or pauDerS,
ana the country will be given up to palaces
and novels.
The antagOnistic forces have again and
again closed in upon each other. You may
pooh pooh it; YOU may say that this trOu-
bic, like an angry child, will CRY itself to
sleep: yCu r-av beiittle it by calling it FOu-
rIerlsm, or Socialism, or St. SimOnisu, or
hinder the tact that it is the mi9htiest> the
darkest the most terrific threat OF this
century. Most Of the attempts at pacif-
cation have been dead failures. and nonOp-
oily Is more arrogant and the trades unions
more bitter. Give us more wages" cry the
employees. You shall have less" says the
capitalists. compel US to do fewer hours
of toll in a day" 'EXou shall toll more
hours" say the others. Then, under GER
tain conditions, we will not work at all"
h,-.
those, and the wOrkmen gradually using up
that which they accumulated in better times
Unless there be some radical change, we shall
have soon in this country three million
hungry men and women. Now, three mill
iOu hungry people cannot be kept quiet. All
the ena"rmeEts Of legislatures and all the
eOnstaDuiar.eS of the cities, and all the army
AMI navy o. the United States cannot keep
three million hungry people quiet. What
them " Ill this war between capital and
labor be settled by human WISDOM Never.
The brow OF the one becomes more rigid, the
dst OF the other more clinched.
But that which human wisdom cannot
achieve VIII be accomplished by Christian
ity if It he given full sway. You have heard
IF medicines so powerful that one drop
would stop Il disease and restore patient,
and | have 70 tell you that one drop OF my
text properly administered will stop ali
these woes Of society and give convalescence
and complete health to all classes. ''What-
do you even so to them" l shall first show
ye this morning how this controversy be-
tween monopoly and hard work cannot be
stopped. and then l will show you how this
controversy viii be settled.
Futile remedies In the first place there
will come no pacifiCatiOn to this trouble
through an Outcry against rich men 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 in
perity. a man who had nothing comes to
large estate, and we him arrogant and
supacci.IOus and taking people by the throat
just as ether people took him by the throat.
There is something very mean about
human naturs when it comes to the top.
But it IS no more sin to be rich than it is q
sin TO be poor. There are those VINO have
gathered a great estate through fraud, ana
then tE=Ta are milllOnalreS who nave
gathered their fortune through foresight III
regard TO changes i'll the markets, and
through brilliant business faculty, and every
dollar OF tneir estate is as honest as the
dollar which the plumber gets for mendlng
pipe, or the mason gets ion building a wall.
There are those who keep in poverty because
of their own fault. They might have been
we'll 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. L
know Il man who is all the time complaining
~
men while he himself keeps two dogs, and
chews and smokes and is filed to the chin
with WHISKY and beer!
MicawDer said to David CoDperheld:
''Coppertied my boy, one pound income,
twenty shilIings and sixpence expenses; re-
salt, misery. But Copperfeld, my boy, one
pound income, expenses nineteen Shllllngs
and sixp2nca; result, happiness" And there
are vast. multitudes Of people VINO are Kept
poor because they are the victims OF thelr
Gin fO %
and it is no sin to be poor protest against
this outcry which l hear against those who.
through economy and self-denlal and
as>duity, have come to large fortune. inns
bcmbardment of commercial success VIII
never stop this controversy between capital
and labor.
Neither will the contest be settled by
cynical and unsympathetic treatment OF
the laboring classes. There are those who
speak of them as though they were only cat
tie or 6raught horses. Their nerves are
nothing. their domestic comfort is nothing.
They have no more sympathy for them than
a hound has for hare, or a hawk tor hen,
or tiger for calf. When Jean Vatican,
the greatest hero of Victor Hugos writings,
after life of suffering and brave endurance,
goes into incarceration and death, they clap
the book SHUT and say. Good for him" They
stamp their feet with indignation and say
just the opposite OF Save the working
classes They have all their sympathles
with Shyl0ck, and not with Antonio and
Portja. They are plutocrats, and their feel
ings are Internal. They are filed with irrita-
ton and Feasibility on this subject To stop
this awful lmbroglie between capital and
labor they will lift not so much as the tip end
of the little finger.
Neither will there be any pactication Of
this angry controversy through violence.
God never blessed murder. Blow up to-
morrow the country seats on the banks of
the Hudson. and all the fine houses on Madi-