The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-08-08
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIvINEs sun.
DAY SERMON.
Subject. 1.-THE Old Fight to Be Set.
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the 'front.'. That all this was done III peace
and that as a result, in many places arbitra
ton has taken place, is a hopeful sign.
The greatest war the world has ever seer
; is between capital and labor. The strife il
not like that which in history is called the
Thirty Years War, for it is war OF cen
turtles, it is war of the i've continents, il
IS war hemisphere. The middle classes
IN this country, upon whom the nation has
depended for holding the balance of power
and for acting as mediators between the
two extremes, are diminishing; and if
things go on at the same ratio as they have
Tor the last twenty years been going on, it
will not be very long before there viii be no
middle class in tins country, but all will be
very rich or very poor, princes or paupers,
and 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, ike an angry child, will cry itself to
sleep; you nav belittle it by calling it Fou-
rierism, or Socialism, or st. Simonisn, or
Nihihsm, or Communism, but that will not
hinder the fact that it IS the mightiest, TIA
darkest the most terrific threat of this
century. Most of the attempts at pacifi-
cation have been dead failures. and monop-
oily is more arrogant and the trades unions
more bitter Give US more wages cry the
employees ''You shall have less +" saws the
of toll in a day. "You shall toll more
hours" say the others. ''Then, under GER
tain conditions we will not work at all"
say these. Then you shall starven say
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 mon and women. Now. three mill
ion hungry people cannot 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
three million hungry people quiet. What
them VIII this war between capital and
labor be settled by human wisdomp Never.
The brow of the one becomes more rigid, the
dst of the other more elinched.
But that which human wisdom cannot
| achieve will be accomplished by Christian
/ ity II 1t be given full sway. You have heard
Of medicines so powerful that one drop
would stop a disease and restore patient
and have to tell you that one drop OF my
text properly administered will stop all
these woes Of society and give conyalescence
and complete health TO all classes. What
soeyer ye would that men should do to you,
do you even so to Them 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 will be settled.
Futile remedies In the first place there
will come no pacifcation 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
vention, or through some accident of pros
perity, a man who had nothing comes to
large estate, and we see him arrogant and
supercihous and taking people by the throat
Just as other people took him by the throat.
There is something very mean about
human nature when it comes to the top.
But it is no more a sin to be rich than it is a
sin 20 be poor. There are those who have
Gathered a great estate through fraud, and
then there are millionaires who have
gathered their fortune through foresight in
regard to changes in the markets. and
through brilliant business faculty, and every
dollar of their estate is as honest as the
dollar which the plumber gets for mending
pipe. or the mason gets for building wall.
There are those who keep in poverty because
OF their own fault. They might have been
well off, 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.
know a man who is all the time complaining
of his poverty and crying out against rich
men. while ne himself keeps two dogs, and
chews and smokes, and is filed to the chin
with whisky and beeri
Micawber said to David Copperfeld:
"Copperfeld, my boy, one pound income,
twenty shillings and sixpence expenses; re
suit, misery But Copperfield, my boy. one
pound income. expenses nineteen shillings
and sixpence; result happiness" And there
are vast multitudes of people who are kept
poor because they are the victims Of their
own improvidence. 1t is no SIN to be rich,
and it is no sin 10 be poor. protest against
this outcry which hear against those who,
through economy and self-denial and
g.
bombardment of commercial success will |
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 draugat- horses Their nerves are |
nothing. their domestic corstogt is nothing. !
They have - 1Sse synlpas.1y sor t1cm e1an /
hound has for hare, or hawk for hen, |
or tiger for a calf When Jean Vatican, /
the Greatest hero of Victor Hugo's writings |
after a 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 sympathies
with Shylock, and not with Antonio and l
Portia. They are plutocrats. and their feel |
ings are internal. They are filed with irrita-
ton and Feasibility on this subject. To stop
this awful imbroglis between capital and
labor they will lift not 50 much as the tip end
of the little finger.
Neither will there be any pacification 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-
son Square and Brooklyn Heights and /
and Brooklyn Hill and RittenhOuse Square
md and oil br-iolrr md
timber and stone viii 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 Co
adjutors. A few years ago assassination
the assassination of Lord Frederick Cavern
dish and Mr.. Burke in Phoenix Park, Dub
lin, ireland, in the attempt to avenge the
wrongs of lreland-only turned away from
that afflicted people millions Of sympa-
thizers. The attempt to blow up the House
of Commons, in London, had only this effect:
To throw out of employment tens of thou
sands OF innocent Irish people in England.
In this country the torch put to the fac
tories thaJ have discharged hands for good i
or bad reason; distractions on the rail track
IN front OF midnight express trains because
the offenders donot 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 10 go TO press, or in mines
tle lilt tuA was 10 De delivered, or on
house scaffoldings 50 the builder fails in
keeping his contract-ail these are onlya hard
blow on the head of American labor, and
cripple its arms, and lame its feet, and
pierce its heart. As result of one OF our
great American strikes you find that the
operatives lost four hundred thousand dol
lars worth Of wages. and have had poorer
wages ever since. Traps sprung suddenly
upon employer. and violence, never took
ne knot out of the knuckle of toll, or put
one farthing of wages into callous palm
Barbarism viii never cure the wrongs Of
civilization. Mark thatl
Frederick the Great admired some land
near bis palace at Potsdam and he resolved
to get it. Is was owned by miller. he of
fered the miller three times the value of the
property. The miller would not take it, be-
cause it was the old homestead, and he felt
about it as Naboth felt about his vineyard
when Ahab wanted it. Frederick the Great
was rough and terrible man, and he ordered
the miller into his presence; and the King,
with stick in his banda 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. 81 will take it"
Then said the miller, 'sif yorr Majesty
does take it will sue you in the chancery
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