Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-22
Diseourse of Rev. DR.. Talmage in
the Cityof Brooklyn.
I. All. Absorbing Question of the Day,
Capital VS.. Labor, Discussed 81
from the RnIpit.
.r,,,,Osyer Ye Would that Men Should Do to
Won Do You Even So 70 Them"-Ths
Old Fight to be. settled
LIE SERMON N FULL.

.o.,sratlon is still worshipping in the
,..5sm, of Music, but expects next
s,,,smber to have the main auditorium
the new tabernacle ready for use in
-, holding of services. After the usual
..,imiusry exercises this morning, DR..
T,Imsgs preached on The OLD Fight to
:. co,tIed, from the text: Whatsoever
voud that men should do to you, do
.,ap so 80 them. - Matt. vii:12.)
!.nori7r Is the sermon in full:
iy Ts,o hundred and fifty thousand labor
- in HYDE Park, London, and the
' 81. of American and European Vcities'
e Nav with professions &c workmep carry
~ tanners. brings the subject of labor
~ ~ csnltal 10 the front. That all this
-, done in peace, and that as a result
!, many places arbitration has taken
lace is a hopeful sign.
rTsa greatest war the world has ever
..ar Il between capital and labor. The
,.-,fs is not like that which in history is
,,Ie1 the thirty years war, for it is a
ear Of centuries, it is a war of the five
ailments, il is q war hemisphere. The
rHdle classes In this country, upon
vbom the nation has depended for hold
J,r tbs balance of power and for acting
9, nedlators between the two extremes,
,rs diminishing; and if things go on at
he same ratio as they have for the last
,veutv years been going on, it will not
bs TeTv long before there will be no mid
ale class in this country, but all will be
rsr7 rich OF very poor, princes or pau
rsr:, and the country will be given up to
rslsces and novels.
The aHtagOnistic forces have again and
,ran closed in upon each other. You
nav pooh pooh it; you may say that this
trouble like an angry child, will cry
Itself to sleep; you may belittle it by
calling ii Fourierism, or socialism, Or
St. simOnism, or nihilism, or commun-
in, but that will not hinder the fact
that It is the mightiest, the darkest, the
MOST TERRIFIC THREAT OF THIS CENTURY.
Most Of the attempts at pacification have
been dead failures, and monopoly is more
arrogant, and trades unions more bitter.
"Givs US more wages" cry the en-
ployes. "You shall have less, say
The capitalists. compel US to do fewer
hours of toll in day. 'You shall
toll more hours,'' say the others.
"Then, under. certain conditions, we
will not work rat all, )" say these.
"Then you shall starve,'' say
those, and the workmen gradually using
up that which they Accumulated in bet-s
ter times unless there be some radical
change, We shah have soon in this coua-'
Try 5000 900 hungry men and women. ]
Now, 5000 600 hungry people can not
hkept quiet. All the enactments of
legislatures and all the constabularies of |
ile cities, and all the army and navy of |
The United States cannot keep 5000 ZOO
hungry people quiet. What then? Will
ibis war between capital and labor be |
isuledby human wisdom2 Never. The /
bFoW Of the one becomes more rigid, the |
iH Of the other more clinohed.
But that which human wisdom cannot |
AClleve will be accomplished by Christi
lnIy II It be given full sway. You
pave heard of medicines so powerful that
one drop would stop a disease and re-
.l0Te patient; and 1 have to tell You
'aat one drop of my text properly ad-
will stop all these woes of
ioaety and give convalescence and COM
FIe'e health to all classes. UsWhatso-
ever ye would that men should do to
you, doye even so to them.'
-, ! slall nrst show you this morning how
'us controversy between monopoly and
-lIa work cannot be stopped, and then 1
' u show you how this controversy will
BE settled.
m IuuIe remedies In the first place there
,Il come no paciicstion to this trouble
through an cutlery against rich men
4s,eiy because they are rich. There is
!, y 'aOoFlng man on earth that would not
: Hch II he could be. Sometimes
t.Oush fortunate invention, or
1'Uesn some accident of prosperity, a
.au VINO had nothing comes 10 large es-
- nv ana we see him arrogant and super
n, Mus and taking people by the throat
~. !" other people took him by the
bo~. ne, ihere is something very mean
- uhan nature when IL comes to the
S ~, nut It Is no more a sin to be rich
No. sin TO be poor. There are
49,. VINO have gathered great
,,IIs through fraud, and then there are
M, r,,'ualres Who-hRve gathered their for
49,. through foresight in regard to
, ,puses IN the IhsSketa, and through
!, oI * business faculty. !; and every dol
oTsr n .lsS eIsate- is $es- hohsst as the
r pa = ,' e"fhebBiambeTg gets Id inendl
3 Myv' 90 the mason gets for build
or.,.L' 4here are those who keen in |
bsr because of their own fault.
~. 'su' have been well off, but they
-, Or cHEwED UP THEIR EARNINGS,
, '-'y lived beyond their means, while
~ ' On the same wages and on the
salaries went on to competency.
49, ~" man who Is all the time COM
= ug Of his poverty and crying out
- ,'' rich men, while he himself keeps
h, s'' and chews and smokes, and is
Il" NJ =" The chin with whisky and beerl
=. 'aNOer said to David CopperHeld:
NJ ,Fpe'neid, my boy, one pound of IN
,pss,. "enty shillings and sixpenoe ex-
IA result, misery. But, Copper I
,psn,. mY boy, one pound income,
mi, nineteen shiIlings and sixpenoe; {
sI,i,,,1 happiness. " And there are vast
.sg, sI y, OF people who are kept poor '
lp,o,,st uey are the victims Of their own s
/ M 'Ieuce. 1t is no sin to be rich and ]
4 o,.a lu 10 be poor. protest against {
b. n.E which I hear against those '
d or, Tugh economy and self-denial
Dc T,eStulty, have come to large for I
Ccs,, ms Commandment OF commercial {
.sss, VIII never stop this controversy s
ssi, su capital and labor. (
acs ,1er viii the contest be settled bv I