The Forrest City times., 1890-05-24
LABOR AND CAPlTAI.
Tslnaes TsIks on ta, 0sat Labor Oar
 ton of tho Day.

ton of tho Day.
 No congratulates tho Laboring Man on Mis
 frospsots and Adviser the Capitalist ts Make Investments for Eternity --Dus Mark the Golden Rule.
 Tho subject Of Dr. Talmagc's sermon of
 ost Sunday was "rhe old Fight to be
 Settled" from tho text "Whatsoever yc
 would that men should do to you. do ye
 aven 30 to them (Matt 1:i1l
 Two hundred and fifty thousand labor
 CTS in Hyde Park, London, and the streets
 of American and European cites filed with
 processions of worxmen carrying banners, brings the subject of Labor and Capital to
 the front That all this was done in peace,
 and that as a result in many places, arbi-
 tration has taken place, 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 tho ,, Thirty Years War for it is war of cen turies It Is a war of ths fivo continents, it is a war hemispheric. The middle classes in this country, upon whom the nation has depended for holding the balance of power
 and for acting as mediatcrs between the
 two extremes, are dimishlng, and If things
 90 on at tho same ratio as they have for tho
 last twenty years been going on, 1t will
 not be long before there will be no middle class in this country, but all will be worry rich or very poor, princes or paupers. and
 the country will be given up to palaces and novels.
 The antngontstc forces have aga and
 again closed in upon each other You may
 pooh pooh it; you may say that this trouble,
 ike m angry child, will cry itself to sleep;
 you may belittle 1t by calling it Fourier lsm, or Socialism, or St Simonism, or Sihilism, or Communism, but that will
 aot hinder the fact that it is tho
 mightiest the darkest the most terrific
 threat of this century. Most of the at .empts at pacfication have been dead fail
 ares, and monopoly is moro arrogant and
 tho trades unions mora bitter sGivs us
 more wages" cry the employees. "You
 shall have less, say the capitalists. Com
 pei us to do fewer hours Of toll in day" You shall toll moro hours" say tho oth- SITS. Then, under certain conditions, we
 will not work at all,' say these. 'sThen Jou shall starve," say those, and tho work
 nen gradually using up that which they
 accumulated in better times, unless thcre
 DC some radical change. ws shall havo soon In this country threc million hungry mon
 and women. Now, three million hungry
 people can not bo kept quiet All the
 anactments of legislatures and all tho con-
 stabulares Of the cities, and all tho army
 ind navy of the United States cannot keep
 ihree million hungry people quiet What
 shent Will this war between capital and
 .aoor be settled by human wisdoml Never
 Tho brow of the one becomes moro rigid, 1 .he fist Of the other moro clincheI.
 lt.f ebnt tx,.t.. at,
 achieve will be accomplished by Christian ] ty if it he given full sway You have heard
 ,f medicines so powerful that ono drop
 would stop disease and restore patient;
 and have to tell you that ono drop of my
 ext properly admin stercd will stop all hose woes of society and give convlies-
 ,ence ani complete haalth to all classes. Whatsoever ve would that mon should ! to 10 you, do ye oven so to themp
 1 shall first show you this morning how
 .his controversy between monopoly and bard work cannot be stopped, and then
 ~il show you how this controversy will be
 settled.
 l Futile remedies. In tho first piaco therc
 will como no pacidcation to thls trouble
 through an outcry against rsch men merely sccause they arc rich. Thers Is no tabor ng man on earth that would not bo rich if | ita tVu+A bN st0aktbtflsES NNFU3ku I1Fkus nate invention, or through some accident ot l prosperity, man who had nothing comes 70 large estate, and wo soc him arrogan, ! aud supercilious, and taking people by tho 1 shroa, just as otnor people took him bY the 'hroas Thcra is something very mean ihout human nature wAen il comes to the op But lt is no mora sin to be rich than 1 i Is sin to be DOT. Thore are those who { aavo gathered a great estata through fraud. and then taere arc mltlionaires who
 nave gathered thclr fortune through fore- light in regard to changes in tho markets. and through brilliant basl.
 aoss faculty, and every dollar of heir estate is as honest as tho iollar walsh the plumber gets for mand. l ng pipe. or the mason gets far building a
 wall. There arc those who keep In poverty because of their own fault They might
 nave been well of, but thay smoksa or showed un thsiv earnings, or they lived be- i Eond their means. while others on tho ] same wagos and on tho same salaries went n to competency. know u,aa who is ! sil the timo csmplalnlnyof hIs poverty and i sryins out agaias, rich mon, waile he him ,elf keeps two dogs. and chaws and { smolses. and Is tilled to the chin with whisky and beori
 1 Neitter will tho contest be settled hy 1 cynical aud unsympathetIc treatment of i he laboring classes. Tiiorn arc thosa who { speak Of them as though they wero ouly { cattle or draught-herses Their nerves aro | nothing; their domestic comfort is notn- i Ing; their happiness is nothing They have DO more sympathy for them than hound | has for a hare, or hawk for hca, or ' tiger for calt When Jean Vatican. the 1 greatest hero of Victor Hngo's writings, | after life of suffering and great endur- ance, goes Into incarceration snd death, l they cap the book shut nna say. Good I for hImW They stamp their feetvwith in l iignatlon and say just tho opositc of Save { the working classes They navo all thcsr
 sympathies with Shyloek. and not with l Antonio and portIa They arc psutocrats,
 and thcir feelings are internal. Thay are I filled with irritation and irascIbility on this
 subject To stop this awful imbrogiio be- tween capital aud labor they will lift not
 90 much as tho tip end of tho little finger 1 In thls country the torch put to tho fac tories that have discharged hands for good l or bud reason, Instructions on tho rail track I In front of midnight express trains because the offenders do not iikc tue president of the company, strikes on shipboari tho hour they were gong 10 sail. or in printing offi cs
 tho hour the paper was to go to press or in
 mines the day tho coal was to hs delivered.
 or on house scafYoidings so the builder fails | in keeping his con,rart--an thosc arc only hard blow on the sad of American labor. and cripple it's arms, and lama It's feet. and 1 pierce It's heart. As a result Of ono of our ! great American strikes you find that tho operatives lost four hundred thousand
 dollars worth of wages. and have had poor
 ar wages ever since. Traps sprung sud. denly upon empsoycFs, and violence. nese ar
 took ouc knot out of tho knuesle of toii. or put one Arthing of wages Into cailous palm. Barbarism will never euro tho wrongs of civilization Mark thatl
 Well. if this controversy between Capital
 and Labor cannot be settled by human
 wisdom, it Is timo for us to look somewhere
 else for relief. and it points from my text
 rosoate ancklubilant aud puts one hand on
 tho broadrloth shoulder Of Capital, and puts tho other hand oa the honespun- GOV cred shoulder of Toil and saya with .