Sharp County record., 1890-05-29


hare or hawk for hen, or tiger for
calf. When Jean Vatican, the greatest
hero of Victor Hugo's writings, after a
life of suffering and brave endurances,
goes into incarceration and death, they
clap the book shut and say: Good for
him" They stamp their feet with in
dignation and say just the opposite of
Save the working classes" They
have all their sympathies with Shylock,
and not with Antonio and Portia. They
are plutocrats and their feelings are
internal. They are filled with irrita-
tion and irascibility on this subject, To
stop this awful imbroglio between capi-
tai and labor they will lift not so much
as the tip end of the little finger.
Neither will there be any pacifcation
of this angry controversy through vio-
lence. God never blessed murder. But
up tomorrow the country seats on tho
banks Of the Hudson, and all the fine
houses on Madison Square, and Brook
lyn 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.
The worst enemies of the working
classes in the United States and
Ireland are their demented coadiutors.
A few years ago assassination-the
assassination of Lord Frederick Caven-
dish 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 Commons in
London had only this effect-to throw
out of employment tens of thousands of
innocent Irish people in England.
"Well, if this controversy between
capital and labor can not be settled by
human wisdom, it is time for us to look
somewhere else for relief, and it points
from my text roseate and jubilant, and
puts one hand on the broadcloth shoul-
der 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 every thing, "Whatsoever ye
would that men should do to you, do
We even so to them That is,
the lady of the household will
say: 81 must treat the maid in the
kitchen just as l would like to be
treated if | were downstairs, and it
were my work to wash, and cook, and
sweep, and itwere the duty of the maid
in the kitchen to preside in the parlor"
The maid in the kitchen must say: IF
my employer seems to be more prosper
GUS than |, that is no fault of hers; l
shall not treat her as an enemy | will
have the same industry and fidelity
downstairs as l would expect from my
subordinates, if happened to be the
wife of a silk importer"
The owner of an iron mill, having
taken dose of my text before leaving
home in 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 be-
sweated and exhausted with the labor
and the toll, and he will say to him:
"Why, it seems to be very hot in here.
You look very much exhausted. / hear
your child is sick with scarlet fever If
you want your wages little earlier this
week, so as to pay the nurse and get the
medicines, just come into my Office any
time"
After awhile, crash goes the money
market, and there is no more demand
for the articles manufactured in that
iron mill, and the owner does not know
what to do. He says "Shall ! stop the
mill, or shall | run it on half.time, or
shall / cut down the mems wages?" He
walks the floor Of his counting-room all
day. hardly knowing what to do To-
ward evening he calls all the laborers
together They stand all around,
some with arms akimbo, some with
folded arms, wondering what the
boss is going to do now. The
manufacturer says: "Men, business
is bad; | don't make twenty dollars
where | used to make one hundred
dollars. Somehow, there is no demand
now for what we manufacture, or but
very little demand. You see | am at
vast expense, and have called you to-
gethcr this afternoon to SEQ what YOU
would advise, don't want to shut up
the mill, because that would forco you
out OF work, and you have always been
very faithful, and like you, and you
seem to like mo, and the BARNS must be
looked after and your wife will after
awhile want now dress. Idou't know
what to do"
There is dead halt for minute or
two, and then one of the workmon stops
out from the ranks Of his fellows, and
says; Boss, you have been very good
to us, and when you prosperod we pros
pered' and now you are in tight place,
and am sorry, and We have got to SYM
pathi2e with you ] don tknow how the
others feel, but propose that we take
OH twenty per cont from our wages,
and that when tho times got good you
Will remember us and raise them again. {"
The workman looks around to his com.
raacs' and says "Boys, what do you
say to tnis' All In favor Of my proposi.
tion will say ay," "Ay, ayl avW sbout.