Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-19

this effect: to throw out OF employment
tens Of thousands Of Innocent Irish people
in ENGLAND.
In this country the torch put to the fac
tories that have discharged hands for good
or bad reason; distractions on the rail
track in front of midnight express trains
because the offenders do not like the presi-
dent OF the company; strikes on shipboard
the hour they were going to sail, or in
printing Offices the hour the paper was 70
go to press, or in mines the day the coal
was to be delivered, or on house scaftold-
ings so the builder fails in keeping his con-
ract-all these are only hard blow ON
the head Of American labor, and cripple
its arms, and lame its feet, and pierce It's
heart. As q result of one OF our great
American strikes you find that the opera
tiyes lost four hundred thousand dollars
worth of wages, and have had poorer wages
ever since. Traps sprung suddenly upon
employers, and violence, never took one
| knot out of the knuckle of toll, or put one
farthing of wages into a callous palm.
Barbarism will never cure the wrongs Of
| civilization. Mark that
ETERNAL JUSTICE COMMANDS.
Frederick the Great admired some land
near his palace at PotsdAm and he resolved
u.
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 it as Naboth felt about his
| vineyard when Aha5 wanted it. Frederick
the Great was rough and terrible man,
i and he ordered the miller into his presence;
and the King, with stick in his hand-7a
stick with which he sometimes struck his
4 officers OF state-said to this miller: ~ Now,
have offered you three times the value OF
that property, and If you won't sell 1t III
| take it ANYHOW" The miller said: Your
majesty, you WON'T" Eyes" said the king,
az will take it," "Then," said the miller,
eff your majesty does take it will sue you
in the chancery court" At that threat
Frederick the Great yielded his infamous
demand. And the most imperious outrage
against the working classes will yet cover
before the law Violence and contrary to
the law will never accomplish anything,
but righteousness and according to law
will accomplish it. ''"i IN.
Well. il this controversy between capital
and labor cannot be settled by human Wis
dom, 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 shoulder of capital, anc
puts the other hand on the homespun Gov
, cred shoulder Of toll, and says, with ayoice
that will grandly and gloriously settle this
! land settle everything, Whatsoever <ye
would that men should do to you, Do. ye
, even SO to themw That is, the lady OF the
: household will say: II must treat the maid
in the kitchen just as l would like to be
7 treated if I were downstairs, and 1t were
: nv work to wash, and cook, and sweep
r and It were the duty of the maid in the
J, kitchen to preside in this parlor." The
9 maid in the kitchen must say; IF my EN-
=, ployer seems to be more prosperous than
I that is no fault OF hers; shall not trea1
$ her MS an enemy. will have the same IN
4 dustry and fidelity downstairs as wouic
8 expect from my subordinates II happened
G to be the wife of a silk importer"
n The owner of an iron mill, having takeI
! 4 n dose of my text before leaving home II
y the morning, will go into his foundry and
c passing into what is called the pudding
room. he will see man there stripped t.
It The waist, and besweated and exhausted
l. with the labor and the toll and he will sa.
Q to him: "Why, it seems to be very hot II
o here. You look very much exhausted.
a hear your child is sick with scarlet fever
e Ifwant your wages little earlier this week
II so as to pay the nurse and get the medi
l. cines, lust come into my office any time"
II After awhile, crash goes the none
n market, and there is no more demand 10
" the articles manufactured inthat iron mil
" and the owner does not know what to dc
d He says, "ShaI stop the mill or shall
| run it on half time, or shall cut down tn
le mems wagesY" He walks the floor of hi
counting room all dag, hardly KNOWN
re what to do. Toward evening he calls a
le the laborers together They stand a
O. around some with arms akimbo, som
r. folded arms, wondering what the boss
If going to do now. The manufactures say
u-. MEN, business is bad 1 don't make twent
MT dollars where used to make one hundred
~ Somehow, there is no demand now Il
o. what we manufacture, or but very hit
te demand. You see, am at vast expens
m and have called you together this ate
noon to see what you would advise.
IL don't want to shut up the mill, becau'
ut that would force you out of work, and yc
in have always been very faithful, and III
We you, and you seem to like me, and u
nd BARNS must be looked after, and your wi
We will otter awhile want n new dress.
hit don't know what to do"
nd THE GRATEFUL WORKMAN.
nd There is dead halt for minute or tw
rs and then one of the workmen steps o.
or from the ranks of his fellows and say
or Boss, you have been very good to us, al
no when you prospered we prospered, al
1t, now Won are in tight place, and l a
ey sorry, and we have got to sympathize wi
or YOU, | don't know how the Others fe
Frs but propose that we take off twenty =
ar cent from our wages, and that when /
an times get good you will remember us a.
his raise them again" The workman loo
en-, around to his comrades, and says: "Bo.
nd what do you say to thisS All in favor
lin my proposition will say ay." "Ayl ayi ay
shout two hundred voices
L. Butthe mill owner, getting in some nj
Ids machinery, exposes himself very mus
ne, and takes cold and it settles into pn'
,es; monia and he dies In the procession
oy, the tomb are all the workmen, tears rC
hill ing down their cheeks and off upon
md ground; but an hour before the processi
Tho gets to the cemetery theNwives and
ms children of those workmen are at the gre
to waiting for the arrival of the fune
,ro- pageant. The minister of religion II
ear have delivered an eloquent eulogium bef'
aud they started from the house, but the m
to impressive things are said that day by
)m- working classes standing around the ton
tro- That night in all the cabins of the wo
ing people where they have family praye
by the widowhood and the orphanage in
Of mansion are remembered. No glari
who populations look over the iron fence of
My cemetery; but, lowering over the scene,
are benedb ,tion Of God and man Is coming
ing. the fulallment Of the Christlike injuncti
han "Whatsoever We would that men should
or TO you, do We even so TO them,